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MAKE Magazine In This Issue... How-To: Save a wet cell phone Geometric kirigami In the Makers Market: Mysterious mushroom puzzle Making things at TEDActive 2010 The Sandpit: a tilt-shift movie FIRST Robotics expo NYC "Ask an Engineer" tonight at 10pm ET More Recent Articles How-To: Save a wet cell phone The folks over at Geek Squad produced this helpful infographic describing a rescue method that might help save your phone if you accidentally dunk it in water. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Wireless | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Geometric kirigami Kirigami is kind of like origami except you get to make cuts, too! Check out Daniel Wyllie L. Rodrigues's excellent kirigami geometric shapes. The top image is called Five Spheres of Persistence. Each of the five spheres consists of a cube, an octahedron and a rhombic dodecahedron on top of each other. The bottom image is a rhombic dodecahedron with a papercraft sphere inside that Daniel made as a gift to his father. More: Papercraft rhombidodecadodecahedron Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Paper Crafts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Certified Nursing Assistant Become a Certified Nursing Assistant. Flex Payment Plan. Days/Eves/Wknds. Click Now! In the Makers Market: Mysterious mushroom puzzle Xylocopa Design (of Build-Your-Own Ratmobile fame) just added this beautiful Mysterious Mushroom Puzzle to their Makers Market store: These gorgeous engraved wooden mushrooms fit together to make a 6" square - but in only one configuration! Assembling them may not look so bad, but trust us, it's no simple task. Each mushroom is based on a different, real species of fungus. Fun and frustration for adults and children alike. The mushrooms are crafted from assorted hardwoods - maple, cherry, walnut, mahogany, padauk, and bloodwood - and finished with an all-natural Tung Oil finish. The storage tray is made of birch and comes with an engraved cheat guide. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Makers Market | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Making things at TEDActive 2010 Conference-goers had fun building tiny robots and high-tech graffiti at the TEDActive event in Palm Springs last month, thanks to Newegg and the Maker Shed. The annual get-together of big thinkers had a Newegg-sponsored Tinker Box "lab" area where conference attendees built bristlebots, LED throwies, and RGB LED origami lamps. My friend Tod Kurt and I were asked to come up with some maker projects for Newegg. We had a month to do it. We ruled out soldering-based kits; too slow. We decided on the three kits mentioned above, but knew it would be tough to source the parts we needed in time. Enter Rob and Marc of the Maker Shed. They turned around the custom order in record time, with no hitches, other than the proclamation that "it's not a lot of fun to try to separate huge stacks of magnets into individual kits". Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • The Sandpit: a tilt-shift movie You've heard of tilt-shift photography, right -- pix shot with a special lens that makes everything look like little models. Well, check out Sam O'Hara's The Sandpit, an awesome tilt-shift movie of a day in the life of New York City! [via Kottke] More: DIY tilt-shift lens Weekend Project: Tilt-Shift Photography HOW TO - Make a Tilt-Shift PC Lens Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Video Making | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • FIRST Robotics expo NYC MAKE is at the FIRST Robotics expo at the Javits Center in NYC for the NY/NJ regionals. Check out my Flickr set for some of the robot action! The New York City / New Jersey FIRST  is a regional office of FIRST, the 501c3 nonprofit organization created to inspire youth to pursue further studies and careers in science and technology and to help students acquire the knowledge and skills needed to compete in the technologically-driven global economy. Participation in FIRST has a positive impact on the lives of students, increasing college attendance, majors in science and engineering, participation in internships and co-ops, and involvement in community service. We'll be here all weekend, stop by our table and say hi and learn about our Make: Money fundraising program for robotics groups! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • "Ask an Engineer" tonight at 10pm ET Each week I help Ladyada with "Ask an engineer" at 10pm ET, a live video chat for beginners and pros, all about engineering and making things - this week she will going through another chapter in the Make: Electronics book, she'll also answer questions from the "Maker Business: Adafruit Industries, how it's made - an open source hardware company in NYC" article. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • More Recent Articles How ball bearings are made Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, THIS weekend! Smallest zine in the world Awesome ultra-low-tech DIY movie making method In the Makers Market: Build-Your-Own Ratmobile kit

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