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!
Check out all the fun and excitement at this year's Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Take a look at some of the highlights and make plans to attend the next Maker Faire.
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.
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 !
Robots! Robots! People from all over the world came to experience the fun and excitement at this years Maker Faire in California. Here is just some of the amazing robot action we encountered.
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.
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
Take an old AM/FM transistor radio and make a quick modification so it picks up Air Traffic Control, Air Shows and other Civil Aviation Band transmissions. Amazing!
