Make: Daily In This Issue... Building a Playable Star Wars Holochess Set New Project: Control Halloween Effects with DIY Infrared Remote Controls We Want to See Your Awesome Halloween Projects! WATCH: Giant Solid Crystal Chandelier Made from Molten Glass New Project: How to Design Custom Game Tokens with OpenSCAD Paddle Battle: 3D Printed Boats Race in Tiny Moats Bill Nye’s LightSail: Making Sci-Fi Real 6 Skills You’ll Learn in Martian Boot Camp Bots, Flames, and Battleships Converge at Maker Faire San Diego From Hannover to Berlin: The Joy of Making Spreads Across Germany Building a Playable Star Wars Holochess Set A fan of the iconic Star Wars holochess game builds his own table and sculpts his own monstrous playing pieces. Read more on MAKE The post Building a Playable Star Wars Holochess Set appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories This Trippy Arduino-Powered “Plant” Trains Your Brain WATCH: Giant Solid Crystal Chandelier Made from Molten Glass 5 Tutorials for Next Level Pumpkin Carving   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • New Project: Control Halloween Effects with DIY Infrared Remote Controls In this project, I'll show you how to set up some simple infrared remote controls for effects that you can use in your haunted house this year. Read more on MAKE The post Control Halloween Effects with DIY Infrared Remote Controls appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories New Project: Weave a Giant Frightful Spider Web for Halloween New Project: Limit TV Time with an Arduino-Controlled Relay New Project: Build an Automatic Photo Rig for Perfect Panoramas   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • We Want to See Your Awesome Halloween Projects! Share your Halloween projects with us so that we can share them with everyone else! Read more on MAKE The post We Want to See Your Awesome Halloween Projects! appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories Make These Spoooky Masking Tape Mummy Hands Upgrade Your Evil Lair with 3D Printed Frankenstein Knife Switches A Snapshot of World Maker Faire: Dancing Dinos and Eyeball Fashionistas   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • WATCH: Giant Solid Crystal Chandelier Made from Molten Glass The Science Channel's How It's Made takes a trip to Baccarat crystal studio to watch molten glass transform into a beautiful crystal chandelier. Read more on MAKE The post WATCH: Giant Solid Crystal Chandelier Made from Molten Glass appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.          Comments I don't know why but the art of glass is simply amazing, great ... by George Monroe Related Stories This Trippy Arduino-Powered “Plant” Trains Your Brain 5 Tutorials for Next Level Pumpkin Carving Use 10,000 Volts to Light Your Tiki Torch   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • New Project: How to Design Custom Game Tokens with OpenSCAD Learn how to create a simple custom model for a coin or gaming token in OpenSCAD. Read more on MAKE The post How to Design Custom Game Tokens with OpenSCAD appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories New Project: 3D Print a Supersized Seven-Segment Clock New Project: Create Sphero-Powered Puzzles for Your Pet New Project: 3D Print the Ultimate Helping Hands for a PCB Workstation   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Paddle Battle: 3D Printed Boats Race in Tiny Moats The Moat Boat Paddle Battle was a wild success at World Maker Faire in New York this past weekend. Teams competed for 3D printers awarded by SeeMeCNC. Read more on MAKE The post Paddle Battle: 3D Printed Boats Race in Tiny Moats appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories Hear the Homemade Jet Engine Built by a High School Student New Project: 3D Print the Ultimate Helping Hands for a PCB Workstation Illuminate Your Desk with Thor’s 3D Printed Hammer   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Bill Nye’s LightSail: Making Sci-Fi Real The quest to solve one of the persistent barriers to citizen space exploration. Read more on MAKE The post Bill Nye’s LightSail: Making Sci-Fi Real appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.          Comments Bill Nye is a science guy like Ted Nugent is a vegan! by Ken Pataska Related Stories 6 Skills You’ll Learn in Martian Boot Camp Adam Savage Interviews Andy Weir About The Martian Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • 6 Skills You’ll Learn in Martian Boot Camp Going to Mars is humanity's straight-up toughest engineering challenge yet. Sharpen your skills with these DIY projects, and maybe you'll get picked for the colony. Read more on MAKE The post 6 Skills You’ll Learn in Martian Boot Camp appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.          Comments So, does the Martian regolith simulant contain 0.5% calcium ... by Red__Eye Related Stories Adam Savage Interviews Andy Weir About The Martian Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station Hear the Homemade Jet Engine Built by a High School Student   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Bots, Flames, and Battleships Converge at Maker Faire San Diego Maker Faire San Diego is October 3rd and 4th. Don't miss out on cupcake cars, real life Battleship, and towering tall bots. Read more on MAKE The post Bots, Flames, and Battleships Converge at Maker Faire San Diego appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories From Hannover to Berlin: The Joy of Making Spreads Across Germany Last Call for Nationwide Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire Racing Drones and Experimental Aircraft Take Flight at Atlanta Maker Faire   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • From Hannover to Berlin: The Joy of Making Spreads Across Germany The joy of making sweeps Germany from Hannover to Berlin with this Maker Faire Read more on MAKE The post From Hannover to Berlin: The Joy of Making Spreads Across Germany appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.         Related Stories Last Call for Nationwide Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire Racing Drones and Experimental Aircraft Take Flight at Atlanta Maker Faire A Peek At Who Wins Editor’s Choice Ribbons At Maker Faire   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •

 

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