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Study structures with straws

The forces that affect buildings and other structures can be modeled inexpensively and quickly by using the humble drinking straw. Usually, the projects built with drinking straws are rapid build. Storage can be an issue if you plan on having students ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  7 Feb 2010

LEGO smartphone gaming rigs

These are fun enclosures for your iPod or other smartphone. I made a simple one for my G1, and now need to find some driving/biking games to try it out on. It was fun and frustrating to stir the bin in search of just the right part. So often, when kids ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  6 Feb 2010

ChumbyChimp and Po

Back when I got my Chumby Guts kit a few months ago, I imagined that it would be pretty funny to set up it up Teletubby style with the screen in the belly of a plushie. At the time, I didn't have a suitable doll to sacrifice at the alter of maker fun, ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  6 Feb 2010

Using paper airplanes to learn about flight

Need a way to help the youth around you learn about flight? Try out paper airplanes! Most people know how to make a basic paper airplane, but there are other designs out there, some even claiming to be the ultimate paper airplane design. Inside the ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  31 Jan 2010

Back to the earth in Maymand Village

The kinds of dwelling-place dug out of the mountains are not of a temporary nature but rather are permanent homes (having been lived in for the last 2000 or 3000 years). The pastoral type architecture (shepherd huts known as kapar or gambeh, and ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  31 Jan 2010

Related Topics: UNESCO

Post disaster shelters

C2C retrofits portable shipping containers into health clinics with high-quality equipment, medicines, and medical staff. The clinics are transported to underserved areas of the developing world to administer primary healthcare to women and children. ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  24 Jan 2010

R/C plane from trash

It's awesome that they build the plane itself from trash, but given that the controller, the reciever, and the servos are the expensive and complex parts, it seems a bit disingenuous to call it "from trash" when they are standard RC plane parts. Have a ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  23 Jan 2010

Shelter 2.0: Distributed manufacturing for emergencies

The Shelter 2.0 was designed by Robert Bridges as a CNC-cut emergency shelter in the Guggenheim/Sketchup contest in 2009. The idea was that it would be partway between a tent and a real house and could be dis-assembled and re-assembled using some ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  18 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Robert Bridges,  Creative Commons

Got a parking spot for a discounted spaceship?

The schedule for transferring the orbiters may be six months earlier than originally anticipated. NASA also desires to make selections a year before receipt of the orbiters, so recipient organizations will have sufficient time to conduct any ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  17 Jan 2010

Related Topics: NASA

Milled blocks designed in Sketchup

Recently, I had a class of 7th graders designing in Sketchup. One of the projects is to accurately design a block of 2" x 2" x 1.25". These designs were then converted to G code with Millwizard by an 11th grader who then milled them in the high school ...

From CHRIS CONNORS, MAKE: Blog,  17 Jan 2010

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