Airplane Barometer
Here’s a fun little quickie I came up with while awaiting the big southwest adventure trip. Our first flight to Albequerque had a stopover in Chicago- while at the intial gate I came up with this plan for an improv […]
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Short, easy, cheap projects that most anyone can do. Sometimes we assume you work really fast, have parts lying around, &/or a wicked set of tools.
Gravity Battery!
Long story short, I ended up crossing paths with Charlotte is Creative recently and that ultimately led to a conversation with a Charlotte artist for which I agreed to co-pitch a fairly improvisational art installation grant with- mostly because it […]
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Pneumatic Minnow
So this project followed an improvisational demo of buoyancy vs. pressure after noticing a “toy” pipette in a chemistry set D had received and weighing it down a bit with a coil of solder. I rememer a cereal toy tony […]
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Drelfie
Yesterday I happened across a link illustrating what is essentially a selfie stick attached to a motor (for the sake of the bearings only) attached to an external camera that is free to rotate around the drone . I thought […]
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DinoPiñata
This one is pretty standard and D does a pretty good job walking us thorough, so I’ll just leave it at that for now except to divulge the component heavy payload since it’s generally missing from photos: Arduino’s, Potentiometers, Test […]
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BikeCart
Wyatt’s bike cart was a rare unicorn of a project in that I had previously built up a similar but more beat up Schwinn trailer nearly identical to this one. Eventually it fell apart for various reasons but I pack-ratted […]
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Wyatt’s pull cart
Obviously this was a quickie but also probably more accessible for anyone else in a similar predicament. You don’t really need much other than a few small hand tool, some spacer material and a rigid platform of whatever length you […]
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Lightbox
Colors are a little tricky. You’ve seen those filters at the average kids museum that illustrates that yellow and blue make green by overlaying acrylic shapes, but in that example you’re just filtering white light and so reducing the output. […]
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Smoke Bubbles!
This is an easy one! Add some extra pop! to your bubble repertoire with a containment chamber and some smoke effects. Bubble machines are a dime a dozen these days- you probably already have one lying around just because. Well, […]
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Stranger Lights
If I searched hard enough I’m sure I could find some duplication of many/most of my projects (especially involving pop culture), but I strive to deliver primarily original content here. Still- when I set out to build some stranger things […]
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