Nyle Steiner of SparkBangBuzz never fails to impress with his old-fashioned hand-on approach to electronics. Whether he's improvising memristors from bits of junk he picked up off the ground, building...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday December 13th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science | 4 Comments
Longtime MAKE pal Raphaël Assénat wanted to recycle his stash of anti-static bags for component shipping, and built an improvised heat-sealer to do it. It's just a step-down transformer, some...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday November 21st, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science | No Comments
Neat idea from Instructables user Random_Canadian, whose mini metal lathe and homemade plastics extruder we have recently featured. His take on the classic physics toy uses five glass marbles, each...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday November 17th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Science | 3 Comments
The man behind the world's largest Tesla coil (the 30,000-watt Electrum) is once again upping the ante on machine-generated lightning. Greg Leyh and his group Lightning On Demand (LOD) have...
Posted by Sabrina Merlo | Wednesday November 16th, 2011 9:00 PM
Categories: Makers, Science | No Comments
Aerogels are fascinating materials, with lots of interesting and, frankly, amazing properties, but they are not easy to make. These days, industrial manufacture with an eye towards commercial applications, primarily...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday November 15th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Science | 3 Comments
Karol Łuszcz is studying electronics at Poland's Gdańsk University of Technology. I'd say he's on-track for an impressive career. This vector-graphics laser projector, his third prototype, includes three laser modules...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday November 11th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Science | No Comments
Searching related content for yesterday's Pistol Flamethrower post, I came to the startling realizations that A) we have lots of great flamethrower-related content in the archives and B) hard as...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday November 10th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, Science | No Comments
A liquid lens is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The really cool thing about them is that, though they have no moving parts (unless you count the liquid...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday October 24th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Science | No Comments
Though described as an "electronic instrument" and an "orchestra…composed of levitating balls whose physical height determines their volume," London design group Poietic Studio’s "Floating Orchestra," cool as it is, cannot...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday October 10th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Music, Science | 4 Comments
According to the bio on his website, Jólan van der Wiel admires objects which show experimental discovery and are translated into a functional design. His Gravity Stools demonstrate that perfectly....
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday October 5th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Furniture, Science | 4 Comments
Here, automata guru Dug North rounds up four expedient methods for improvising a worm drive given an on-hand spur gear. Digging through our archives also reveals this interesting method for...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 28th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Robotics, Science, Workshop | No Comments
Bruce Parker, former Chief Scientist and eleven-year veteran of NOAA’s National Ocean Service, wrote this fascinating article in the September issue of Physics Today. It covers the technical history of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday September 27th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Science | No Comments
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