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We have a lot to be thankful for this year–but most of all, we’re thankful for our readers and community of makers who make MAKE what it is. Have a great holiday folks, and enjoy this Thanksgiving-themed post filled with projects and more for turkey time…
- Liquid Nitrogen ice cream? Fractal pecan pie? A recirculating gravy fountain? - Link.
- Make Video Podcast: Make Your Own Thanksgiving Turkey Out of Paper! - Link
- Hack the Paper Turkey - Link
- Make Your Own Turkey Plans! - Link
- Thanksgiving Turkey-Making Instructions - Link
- Hundreds of hand draw turkeys… - Link
- Interview with a turkey fryer - Link
- HOW TO - Harvest a turkey - Link
- Making a thermocouple (measure turkey temperature with a multimeter and calculator!) - Link.
- Thanksgiving calculator - Link.
- DIY Thanksgiving: How to fry a turkey, turkey fryer kits, safety and more… Link.
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Mochimochi is clearly on a mission to cute-ify the entire world. Her newest offering is this knitted elf pattern showing you how to make a TINY ELF HANGING OUT WITH OTHER, TINIER ELVES. Does it get any better?! The pattern can be snapped up for $5 at the Mochimochiland shop.
If you can’t get enough of those colorful holiday helpers, you can also download this free PDF of Mochimochi Elves Gift Tags!
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Heidi Kenney whipped up this woodland-cute cheese ball using almond slices to give it a pinecone look. I guess that technically makes it a cheese cone. Either way, it’s a quick and easy appetizer for your Thanksgiving celebration!
Related:
• Ribbon Pinecone Ornament
• HOW TO - Make Pinecone Birdfeeders
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This Instructable will show you how to build your own Web Connected Robot (using an Arduino micro-controller and Asus eee pc).
Why would you want a Web Connected Robot? To play with of course. Drive your robot from across the room or across the country, using nothing more than Skype and a web brows…
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Homemade strobe photography by Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson…
JUMPIN’ JACKED FLASH
We built a strobe flash out of a Kodak disposable camera and then designed a circuit that triggers the flash when it detects a sound or other measurable event. The strobe flash will freeze motion!
We use a digital camera set for a long exposure (two seconds or more), and shoot the picture in a dark room. When the balloon pops, the sound-activated trigger circuit fires the flash, and the camera captures the incredible event.
Why not just take the picture of the balloon with a digital camera and its built-in flash? First, getting the timing right is a hard problem: the camera’s exposure, its flash, and the event itself need to be synchronized. (Try it yourself and see what luck you have.) The second problem is that a stock camera flash doesn’t make a very good strobe because it flashes too long, causing blurry high-speed photos.
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Aris is building an alternative to the usual black and white keys of music -
This is another project I just started working on. It is a keyboard/MIDI controler based on the harmonic table (like the c-thru music controler). This one is just switches which all connect to a midi core module (from ucapps.de) which translates the various keypresses to midi signals. There are 50 keys/notes and although I’m going to use letra-set rub-ons to write the notes onto the keys, you can make out which note is which from the blue keys. They are in pairs and one of each pair (the low/right) is an A (La for europeans) and the other is a C (Do). In the harmonic table layout that the C-thru axis uses (and others) , if you choose one button, the button above it is a fifth, the one to the top/right a minor third and the top/left a major third. (you can see c-thru’s chord calculator here).
- Harmonic Table Keyboard
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If my fire alarm bell alarm clock clashes with your industrial decor have a look at this Indestructible Binary Alarm Clock. This clock will force you to get up and walk out the door before it shuts off!
"When I was laying awake again I started thinking about building the ultimate alarm clock. After some tinkering […]
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Here’s an idea for homemade holiday gifts, everybody needs more coasters! Marc @ MAKE points us to this tutorial for stamped tile coasters. It looks like this would be a good activity to get your kids involved with, especially if you have tile left over from that patio project. Try staying home and making these instead of shopping on black friday!
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This site had me addicted for quite a while during the summer. During that time a built some fun stuff. See my trailer submission. One of the things that I really liked was the lighting ideas. Especially since I ride my bike at night a lot.
This helmet light set up is cheap, easy to build and work…
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