In this podcast, Bre brings in Matt, the screenprinting expert of etsy.com, to the Weekend Projects podcast.
Have you ever wanted to create your own t-shirt designs? Look no further! Don't forget to go and download the pdf to get all the details and supply lists. http://makezine.com/ podcast
In this podcast you'll learn how to fuse plastic together and then make a bag out of it! All you need is an iron, plastic bags, sewing machine, and some straps and buckles.
Bre Pettis teams up with Hardware Hacker Joe Grand to show you how to integrate LCDs and GPS into your electronics projects. Then they put these two things together on a basic stamp and create a portable GPS tracking system and go geocaching!
Like Doctor Frankenstein scouring the countryside for dead bodies to put together, so you, the camera hacker will scour garage sales, thrift stores and ebay to find old cameras to rip apart and put back together in creative new ways.
This weekend, make a flower out of 3 bills. This makes a great tip for a nice dinner out or just a way to spend 20 minutes or so folding paper! This project is from Craft: Magazine Volume 5 and the origami was designed by Robert J. Lang and Diagrammed by Jeffrey Rutzky.
During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You can modify this design if you want to set it up so that it's tuneable too! To see all the plans, go to makezine dot com slash podcast!
One of the great things about these little bots is that you can make them from scavenged materials. Use parts from broken electronics and bring them back to life as little robots!
Turn a video camera into a lensless miscroscope and record what you see! Fun and easy project. Credit for the original project goes to Tom Zimmerman. From Make Magazine Volume 14.
This week, Bre Pettis teams up with Mitch Altman and George Shammas to make a little 3x3x3 cube made of little LED lights that you can program with any kind of animation that you like!
You can get more information and detailed instructions at makezine dot com slash podcast.
This Week Bre Pettis shows you how to make Mousey The Junkbot. This project was in Make: Volume 2 and was conceived and written by Gareth Branwyn of streettech.com.
Mousey is a mouse made of scavenged materials. If you're not a scavenger you can also get the parts from solarbotics.com.
his weekend, Bre Pettis shows you a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building. Paula Kieko breaks down the math and physics for you. If you want to have fun and get smarter, organize an egg drop in your neighborhood!
Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back.
To celebrate Weekend Projects' one year birthday, I ate a cupcake and made a jam jar jet!
Inspired by Bill Gurstelle's awesome instructions in Make: Volume 5, this thing is a real pulse jet inside a jam jar!
Make sure to download the pdf that goes along with this podcast at makezine.com/podcast !
This week, I met with the gentlemen of Graffiti Research Lab Vienna, aka, GRLv, and they were kind enough to break it on down and show me how to set up a laptop, camera, projector, and laser to be a nondestructive and awesome graffiti tool.
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