MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes The Maker Faire is just around the corner, happening on May 3 & 4 at the San Mateo Expo Center in San Mateo, CA. Here's a quick video preview of some of the fun activities you can expect in the CRAFT side of the fair. (Photos from Maker Faire Bay Area 2007 and video footage from Maker Faire Austin 2007.) Stay tuned for more Maker Faire news on the CRAFT blog in the days and weeks to come! [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

From take-out coffee lids to Stormtrooper costumes, vacuum formed plastic is everywhere. Now you can build your own for thousands less than professional models and still make cool 3D objects! To download Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former MAKE 11 "Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former" & You can see that in our digital edition. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

From take-out coffee lids to Stormtrooper costumes, vacuum formed plastic is everywhere. Now you can build your own for thousands less than professional models and still make cool 3D objects! PDF [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Pummer pics, and brief vid, in the Make: Flickr Pool. Pummer gathering sun (3/4 right view) Related: HOW TO - Make a pummer - Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture, these desktop toys are easy and fun to make, the pummer! - and hey, it's Friday so here's a free article just for our blog readers from the pages of MAKE 08 - Toys and games. Click here to download the PDF, or get this PDF and many others including our audio and video via iTunes (RSS 2.0 feed). More: Here are a few key resources that will tell you what you need to know and point you where you need to go for more on pummers and parts. As always, our friends at Solarbotics are a recommended source for BEAM-related robotics. They have all the parts you need for building pummers. Solarbotics also sells a pummer kit, the HexPummer, and has free building instructions for "BEP Project 1: The Pummer," a one-LED pummer using the circuit shown in this article. Hobbyengineering also has many of the parts you need, including the 24mmx33mm solar cell and 1.0 Farad Aerogel "super caps" that can be used for power storage.Solarbotics.net - This BEAM community portal has lots of info on pummers in the Library and Circuits sections, as well as pics of builders pummers in the Gallery and on individual builders' sites.BEAM Discussion Group - A great place to ask technical questions of fellow BEAMers.See more of Zach DeBord's gorgeous BEAM creations on his home page. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

mp4 | 3gp |3g2 | iTunes | blip.tv This week on the best of Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis, we join him in arms and learn how to make a trebuchet. With a trebuchet, you can smash your enemy's castle or at least fling the heads of enemy spies into their courtyard. In the old days, the most important metric of a trebuchet is that it can fire farther than your enemy's archers can shoot their arrows! In this podcast you'll see how to build a paperclip trebuchet and a medium sized trebuchet. The paperclip trebuchet can be made in under an hour and it teaches you a lot about how they work. The medium sized trebuchet took a little longer to cut, drill, and screw together, but it's not hard. Download the pdf for more instructions to make your own seige weapon! [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

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