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R2-D2 wood stove from recycled gas bottle

26 Sty 2011 18:11 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Handmade and for sale by British eBay seller kidsrusje, with three days to go as of this writing. [via Boing Boing] More:World's smallest R2?R2-D2 build videoBeer2-D2R2D2 knit hat Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Commen...

MAKE presents: The Multimeter

26 Sty 2011 18:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Get acquainted with the Digital Multimeter - an engineer's best friend! The ability to test resistance, voltage, current & continuity are vital to any electronics maker - even the freshest of newbies. In fact, having a reliable multimeter on hand...

Surface Detail: hyp-fractal-notic

26 Sty 2011 16:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

[Via Boing Boing] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!

Homemade coffee-balloon gripper easily picks up small objects

26 Sty 2011 15:07 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

In this video, Steve Norris of Norris Labs presents his low-cost implementation of Cornell's jamming-skin-enabled balloon gripper using a Handi-Vac as a vacuum source. [via BotJunkie] More: DIY universal robot gripper Read the Full Story ...

Robotic knifefish uses one fin to travel in all directions

26 Sty 2011 13:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Northwestern University professor Malcolm MacIver's GhostBot is a robotic fish that can swim forward, backward, and vertically using its incredible ribbon-like fin. Ghostbot's locomotion is inspired by a knifefish in MacIver's aquarium, which a col...

The art bikes of Todd Kundla

26 Sty 2011 11:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Check out the groovy art bikes of Todd Kundla--many of which have appeared on Tour de Fat. [via LikeCool] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Bic...

Lovely junk-built crystal radio

26 Sty 2011 06:01 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Craig Smith (South Milwaukee, WI) writes: With all of the junk I accumulated, I thought it would be neat to make a crystal radio as a low impact project in the evenings. I unwound the coated wire from a small useless 115V brushless motor that I ...

Hologram demo using Kinect

26 Sty 2011 06:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

From New Scientist [via Boing Boing]: The holographic images are still rather fuzzy. But just a couple of months after the first demonstration of holographic telepresence, the frame rate has jumped a factor of 30, from one frame every two seconds ...

Shocking jockey robots

26 Sty 2011 05:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Here's another "news from the future"... ...Dubai police have confirmed they uncovered a gang of dealers who were selling electric stun gun kits, for up to £5,000, across the region. These were then being fitted inside the robot jockeys... The ele...

Masking tape redefined

26 Sty 2011 03:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

A few years ago, PT introduced us to Australian artist BUFFdiss' amazing masking tape graffiti. Checking out his Flickr stream, it's cool to see how his style has progressed over time, and that he's still making his signature art. Also check out th...

Lego spraycan explosion

26 Sty 2011 02:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

AFOL Cole Blaq of Düsseldorf created this excellent action shot of an exploding can of spraypaint. Who says you can't build everything with Lego? Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | ...

Crabfu in Gakken magazine

26 Sty 2011 00:01 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Congrats to MAKE contributor I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, for his inclusion in the latest Gakken kit magazine. He's especially thrilled because the kit is a model of Theo Jansen's wind-powered Strandbeest kinetic sculpture and I-Wei is a big fan of The...

Patent illustration Valentine's cards

26 Sty 2011 00:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Steve Hoefer whipped up these fabulous print-at-home Valentine's Day cards with particularly romantic patent illustrations. He writes: For a maker Valentine's Day is no Halloween. Or even Christmas. In fact on the list of holidays makers get ex...

LED-in-resin lamp cast from light bulb it replaces

25 Sty 2011 22:00 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

If you can't find a reasonably-priced LED replacement for that burned-out appliance bulb, you might do what Andy Brockhurst did: Wire up an LED cluster, yourself, and embed it in resin cast into a mold taken from the original bulb. Looks like he ...

Making for health: Calling Boston-area makers

25 Sty 2011 20:31 | http://blog.makezine.com/archi... | ∞

Asthmapolis, a GPS-enabled, networked inhaler that helps manage Asthma attacks on a city-wide scale Following on their success last year, Health 2.0 is hosting code-a-thons in three cities as part of their Developer Challenge: San Francisco, CA ...