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Weekend Project: Soda Bottle Rocket
With a few empty soda bottles and some PVC pipe, you can build a high-performance water rocket. Original project by Steve Lodefink. The basis for this project's launcher design is the Martinet Launcher
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Weekend Project: Soda Bottle Rocket (PDF)
With a few empty soda bottles and some PVC pipe, you can build a high-performance water rocket. From Make Volume 5 by Steve Lodefink. The basis for this project's launcher design is the Martinet Launcher PDF...
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Art made with rocket fuel, gunpowder and bullets - Happy 4th of July!
Fourth of July fireworks might seem tame to Matt Stromberg via Gizmodo. The Savannah College of Art and Design professor of foundation studies and sculpture uses rocket fuel, explosives, pyrotechnics, propellants and munitions to create earth-shattering art. These energetic...
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How To: Photograph Fireworks
Sebastian Szyszka has a great write-up on how to photograph fireworks. He covers the delicate balance of ISO and aperture settings along with everything else you need to know. In the end, it seems to be fairly easy to...
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DIY: Air powered Bottle rocket
This bottle rocket does not require a match to ignite it. Although, it might take a bit of courage, since it looks like it could take off your head when the bottle is unscrewed? If you add a bit...
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4th of July fun: Make your own smoke-bombs
One of the first things people think about when 4th of July comes around is fireworks. This year you might want to go ahead and try making your own. It isn't a mortar shell, but it will still impress...
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What MAKEs America great - Happy 4th of July from MAKE
I asked the authors of the MAKE blog what they thought made America great for this 4th of July holiday, here's what they has to say (and please post yours in the comments, I'll pick a few and send...
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Rubik's Cube costume hat
Instructables user peterthehun made this costume hat replica of a Rubik's Cube. Oddly disturbing, and I wonder how he can see out of it!...
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Sophisticated cigar box guitar
Ronnie Hinton of Florida made a tunable six-string cigar box guitar, base on the project in MAKE vol. 4. As the video on his site shows, he can play a decent tune or two on it! From the pages...
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Throw a "kabob pit" party
Here's an idea I got from Alton Brown on Good Eats that I sketched up in my Maker's Notebook. It's for throwing a self-serve shish kabob party using a temporary fire pit made from bricks, sand, and charcoal. You...
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Orientation aware camera build info
Andrew was kind enough to post additional info on his excellent USB camera project including wiring diagram and source code. I started this project without really having any idea where it would end up. I started off by deciding...
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Quadcopters video
Via DIY Drones comes this video of the Stanford STARMAC (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent) quadcopters: STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent is a testbed of 6 quadrotor helicopter unmanned aerial vehicles that fly...
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NES-in-a- cartridge
Hack a Day points out this sweet portable NES project using a cartridge as enclosure - (I'm guessing it wasn't a classic title) more pics on the Ben Heck forums - My first but awesome NESp...
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An Afternoon at Maker Faire - Dallas/Ft. Worth Area, July 19th
Calling All Dallas/Ft. Worth Area Makers - Join Us for "An Afternoon at Maker Faire" on July 19th. Make Magazine, Craft Magazine and the Maker Faire team will be coming to Dallas to host an "Afternoon At Maker Faire"...
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Stair climbing challenge at RoboGames 2008
Climbing stairs. Not as easy as it looks. I know this from personal experience. I like how the winning approach is to favor one leg. That's how I did it, before my hip replacement. I did NOT however slide...
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More robot parts from Shapelock
This enterprising builder is constructing a humanoid robot from little more than Shapelock plastic, card, curtain rods, rings, and finials, and bargain basement electric screwdrivers for the motors. I'll be interested to see how this progresses. Android 10 [via...
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The brains behind "The Image Fulgurator"
Here's a follow up to our first post about "The Image Fulgurator" from Wired, more details, history and discussion of this project...Julius von Bismarck's 'Image Fulgurator' projects stealth images into the photographs of strangers, while keeping those images invisible...
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VUW students create 3D printers
Nice round up of VUW student work - creating 3D printers @ Ponoko via Beyond the beyond. Last week the 3rd year Industrial Design students at Victoria University presented the prototypes of the 3D printers they had designed. The...
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The miles per gallon illusion (Miles per gallon vs. gallons per mile)
Bunnie has an interesting write up about AAAS's Science publication "The MPG Illusion" he writes... Here’s an interesting question. Suppose you had a household with two cars, and each car needs to be driven 10,000 miles per year. One...
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