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MAKE Magazine In This Issue... Tesla's Pidgeon: A Lego ray gun MAKEcation: Powered bikes! Constrained Ball - concept line maker and measurer Giant skull collage, made from "Zombie" brain slices More Recent Articles Tesla's Pidgeon: A Lego ray gun AFOL Guy Himber, whose innovative use of Lego elements has appeared in Make: Online twice before (links below), has done it again with this excellent, life-sized steampunk ray gun. If you like this, be sure to check out his similarly-themed Infinity Rifle. Lovely work as usual. More: Bionicle griffin makes fantastic use of biopunk parts Lego steampunk "Voyage to the Moon" model Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • MAKEcation: Powered bikes! I found these two bikes in the MAKE Flickr pool: The top photo shows a folding bike with an "electric push trailer" -- a $75 e-bike conversion kit turned into an electrically-powered trailer. Neat idea! The bottom photo shows a standard mountain bike that some maniac has hacked to run via gas engine. What have you done to mod your bike this summer? Leave a comment. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Bicycles | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Constrained Ball - concept line maker and measurer Constrained Ball... People not only write with pen. Other than writing, often we draw lines with pen. Most time people use ruler to draw a straight line or free hand which results winding line. This invention is regarding a method to draw straight line without using ruler. Normally, ball point pen freely rolls in accordance with a ball that located at the tip of pen. This device is to apply a controlling condition to a ball in order to rolls to only one direction. Let's draw a straight line with a ball that has restrained with directivity. With added ruling device feature, the length of line will be measurable. Even people can draw an exact length of straight line as desired. The total length of line will be indicated on the product by installed measuring wheel. The mounting area is made with a flexible rubber material to provide the best tightness. This product can draw horizontal and vertical lines in addition to 45 angled lines. By using this product, people can draw under lines, tables and desired length of straight lines. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Paper Crafts | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Giant skull collage, made from "Zombie" brain slices Skull-a-day made a giant skull collage from "Zombie" brain slices via NOTCOT. Last month I made a special trip to visit my friends at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Mütter Museum. Anna, the curator, asked if I could make a new skull for an upcoming project of theirs and of course I said yes, and then suggested that I make it in the museum itself. Since most of the items on display are very fragile I figured I'd be working with display jars or other non-historical materials. However, to my delight they had just acquired a collection of hundreds of beautiful real brain slices encased in acrylic (which had been dubbed "Zombie MRE's")! Since they're very sturdy I was allowed to used them as my material and I was set up in a lovely room that holds the card catalog for their library. Over the course of two days I arranged the slices on two large old library tables and climbed a ladder over and over making sure the image looked right from a single vantage point (where I would eventually take my picture). All told I used 375 slices and a bit of fabric for the eye/nose holes... Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • More Recent Articles Handmade Music in NYC 8/29 Restoring a Wimshurst machine Weekly Make: Projects round-up Meticulously machined lightsaber replica... Antique clocks turned into speaker cases

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