If you've ever been to Maker Faire, you're probably familiar with all the wonderful pedal-powered carnival rides that appear throughout the event. Here's a video demonstration of a small Ferris...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday March 13th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Fun & Games | No Comments
The Missus, a mini (2-meter) autonomous sailboat, will compete in the 6th International Robotic Sailboat Championships this June, in Vancouver, BC. We are a group of Memorial University students who...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday February 28th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Energy | No Comments
This is a wonderful collection of black-and-white newsreel footage, assembled by the company that invented the newsreel, showing a montage of early helicopter prototypes in all their wacky and frequently-terrifying...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday February 24th, 2012 5:59 AM
HaD writer Caleb Kraft of Springfield, MO, sexed up his VW bus with a lovely (and Cthulhu-esque!) elephant mural as well as stained glass sun visors that complement the painting....
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday February 9th, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy | 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: When we were putting together our Make: Ultimate Kit Guide, we wanted to highlight the makers of the awesome kits we reviewed as much as possible. Our 96...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday February 8th, 2012 5:00 PM
Categories: Energy, Tools | 6 Comments
August 25th will mark the third anniversary of the Race of the Future competition, where makers create alternative energy vehicles and race them through the streets of Whiting, IN. Gas...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday February 7th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Energy, General | No Comments
OK Go's new video for the song Needing/Getting has the band playing a thousand instruments... with a car. Yep, they rigged up a Chevy Sonic hatchback with retractable pneumatic arms,...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday February 6th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Fun & Games, Photography & Video | 7 Comments
Well, more accurately, they transform into “whegs,” which look like legs, but are driven like wheels and don’t, as a rule, have powered joints. Apart from sheer novelty value, the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday February 3rd, 2012 6:21 AM
Categories: Electronics, Energy, Robotics | 10 Comments
This longboard features a tablet computer, Kinect, and 800-watt electric motor, and reaches a max speed of 32 MPH. Chaotic Moon Labs’ “Board of Awesomeness” is intended as a technology...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday January 19th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Energy | 4 Comments
Since CES is such a big show, some companies do outrageous things to get noticed. Whether it’s building a $30k iPod dock or hiring stuntmen to ride around town on...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Friday January 13th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, Energy, Home | 2 Comments
Yet another reason to own a stainless steel car. An "insane amount of time," but the results are undeniably stunning; check out more pics in this thread at autopia.org. Rob...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday January 9th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Workshop | 13 Comments
This project dates back to 2009, but it’s entirely new to me: the HPS Hamstar is a hamster-powered submarine constructed out of a 3-liter bottle, a hamster wheel, and a...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Thursday January 5th, 2012 3:30 AM
Categories: Energy | 11 Comments
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