Launch streams of toilet paper in mid-air. The ultimate TP machine. Thanks go to Professor Greg Arius of the Phenomenauts for the original article in Make Volume 8

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Check out the complete Streamerator article MAKE 08 "Streamerator" & You can see that in our digital edition.

10: Make a Tabletop Biosphere

Read more about making your own Tabletop Biosphere

9: Make a pocket sized LED cube

Make your own Pocket sized LED Cube

8: Build a Jam Jar Jet

Learn how to make your own Jam Jar Jet

Make your own backyard biodiesel. It's easy to make a small batch that will work in any diesel engine. You won't need any special equipment--an old juice bottle will serve as the "reactor" vessel--and on such a small scale, you can quickly refine your technique and perform further experiments. Thanks go to Rob Elam for the original article in Make Volume 3

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Check out the complete Making Biodiesel article MAKE 03 "Making Biodiesel" & You can see that in our digital edition.

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Check out the In-Car Camcorder Mount article MAKE 13 "In-Car Camcorder Mount" & You can see that in our digital edition.

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Check out the HardAircraft Band Receiver article MAKE 09 "Aircraft Band Receiver" & You can see that in our digital edition.

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Check out the Hard Drive Wind Chimes article MAKE 12 "Hard Drive Wind Chimes" & You can see that in our digital edition.

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Check out the Styrofoam Plate Speaker article MAKE 12 "Styrofoam Plate Speaker" & You can see that in our digital edition.

Dreams in High Fidelity is a painting that evolves. The artwork was designed and rendered with the Electric Sheep, a cyborg mind composed of 60,000 computers and people mediated by a genetic algorithm. It's one of the few acceptable uses of "crowd sourcing" I can think of :)

Physically it consists of a small computer driving a large high definition display. The computer creates a continuously morphing, non-repeating, abstract animation. It is not software that you can download, but a custom configured computer preloaded with a large database.

The animations are rendered by the Electric Sheep, but at triple the resolution and with more stately motion. The image quality is striking on a large display. It requires 20x the computation to make a high fidelity sheep, and it shows.

The artist selects his favorite sheep from the archives and public flock, and sends them back to be re-rendered at high fidelity: heaven for an electric sheep. This new flock has grown to 100GB, totaling 18 hours if played end-to-end, and requiring over 200 years to render on a single computer.

A version of Dreams in High Fidelity is at 3LD for the next two weeks - July 11 - July 26, if you're in the area it's worth checking out (night time-ish is best).

Scott's work is "open source" the tools and software can be downloaded by anyone, the "creatures" created are in Creative Commons. Similar to open source hardware Scott makes his living by selling a physical version of the art, an installation, this is one of the reasons it's most interesting to me and I think a glimpse of what's to come for digital artists.

Here's my interview / video with Spot (above). HD version is available on Vimeo and a Quicktime (M4V) is available here.

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Check out the Soda Bottle Rocket article MAKE 05 "Soda Bottle Rocket" & You can see that in our digital edition.

Check out the Lensless Microscope article MAKE 14 "Lensless Microscope" & You can see that in our digital edition.

• Maker's Notebook online home
• Maker's Notebook released at Maker Faire
  
• More on the Maker's Notebook
• Cats like the Maker's Notebook too!

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DIY Design Electronics Kit - Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys, and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more! Once you master the basics, you'll be ready to create your own! Everything you need to get started is right in the box, including switches, buttons, diodes, capacitors. transistors and regulators. Learn the amazing concepts of resistance, capacitance, voltage and current with the step-by-step project manual. Soon, you will be the electronics wizard! Great introduction to electronics for all ages.

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Check out the Build and Ornithopter article MAKE 08 "Build and Ornithopter" & You can see that in our digital edition.

Here are 8 ways to recycle the common 2 liter plastic soda bottle. Did you know...Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles an hour. We throw away about 868 million pounds of it annually (about 75% of what's produced). That's an estimated $130,000,000 worth of plastic!
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Check out the Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former MAKE 11 "Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former" & You can see that in our digital edition.

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A modified version of Diminutive Balls of FireMAKE 13 "Balls of Fire" & You can see that in our digital edition.

This week's CRAFT Video Podcast is the second in a two part series on how to make intarsia/stranded knitting pattern from an image in Photoshop. We'll go from the gridded pattern we made last week to a knitted back panel for the sweater using a mixture of intarsia and stranded multicolor knitting.

Related:

• Skeleton Cardigan Part 1 - CRAFT Video Podcast- Link.
• Skeleton Cardigan - CRAFT Pattern Podcast - Link.
  

This week's CRAFT Video Podcast is the first in a two part series on how to make intarsia/stranded knitting pattern from an image in Photoshop. We'll go from an old skeleton illustration to a gridded knitting pattern for personalizing your own Skeleton Cardigan.

Next Friday in Part 2, I'll show you how to work from the pattern to make the back panel of the Skeleton Cardigan!

You can also download the Skeleton Cardigan PDF pattern - Link.

The most viewed video from our blip.tv views is how to make a catapult with Bill Gurstelle. We made this podcast at Maker Faire!

The most viewed weekend project video on youtube was the tutorial with Matt Stinchcomb about how to screenprint a t-shirt!

My personal favorite podcast of the year was making a power tool drag racer! Thanks to all the guests that were on podcast and for all the feedback, comments and awesomeness of 2007. If you have a favorite, drop a note in the comments or if there's a podcast you'd like to see made in 2008, don't hesitate to drop me a note!