How To: Make and build mousetrap powered car
Vroom! Power a balsa wood vehicle from the energy of a mousetrap! Fun and easy project brought to you by Make Magazine!
Vroom! Power a balsa wood vehicle from the energy of a mousetrap! Fun and easy project brought to you by Make Magazine!
Using Excel 2007 to create a Gantt chart--a popular project management tool.
This tutorial shows you how to use an Excel to create a project management Gantt chart. There is no default for this, but you can customize a stacked bar chart to do the job.
This video compilation shows you how to create various LED and fiber optic hacks and projects the average Joe can assemble to create one hell of an awesome, wild party.
It's nice to add "depth" to a project -- generally by making something look 3D (or 3D-ish). This is a really easy tip for creating a 3D button in Flash and further goes into adding sounds and scaling the button.
Looking for a cool kids project? Expose your kids to the sun and make an impression at the same time!
This bright little project mixes the techniques of thread painting with a scrappy piecing technique. Use Terry's digitized embroidery design of the bug if you don't want to thread paint. This bag makes a great gift for the gardener in your life.
Learn how to create and program basic buttons in your Flash projects.
Watch this video to learn how to cut circles in glass. This is a detailed demonstration for those who are interested in stained glass, or other glass projects. You must have glass cutting tools.
Watch this video for a detailed demonstration on three methods of cutting glass for stained glass making, or other projects.
A science project/trick video showing how to make an easy version of elephant's toothpaste, with materials that everyone has around the house.
Make a battery connector for electronics and science projects with items laying around the house.
Depending on your juggling skills, it can be a dream come true or your worst nightmare. Watch this how-to dating video and learn how to date several women at once. To carry out this delicate project you will need more than one woman, organizational skills, and a silver tongue. Caution dating several women at once can have disastrous consequences.
Jacques Torres shows how to mold and decorate a jolly Santa and pretty Christmas trees in milk and dark chocolate. His handy tips will help with any sort of chocolate project.
Learn how to make a daisy chain threading design for your beaded jewelry projects.
Dave shows you how to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors, so you can have beautiful gifts to bring with you to all your holiday gatherings. This is a great winter project to keep your gardening hands busy until spring.
The Thread Heads visit ReadyMade magazine and take on one of their projects. The How-to doesn't start until a few minutes in, but it's a good one. Use sprockets and chicken wire to make cool patterns for your clothes. Sweet!
Elizabeth Jones explains how to export your finished project for the web using Windows Movie Maker. You can select Windows Media low bandwith to significantly decrease the size of your movie file.
Take control of your raw footage- learn how to capture video in Windows Movie Maker, and take the first step to editing the video into a completed project.
In this video tutorial you will learn to add a button to a track in DVD Studio Pro. You can use it to enable the users to choose to view a trailer or sneak preview of your upcoming project before sending them back to the main menu.
In this video you will learn to use Photoshop to turn a photograph into a wall painting. Learn to use cutout filter to enhance the effect. Remember to experiment with different blending modes for your own project!
Use magnetism, electricity, and a rodent to create a night light. If you have mice, or would not mind buying some, this project can be completely relatively quickly. Go and harness the power of rodents!
Corinne Bradd shows Kristy Clark how to use the bead roller, a nifty gadget that can create perfect beads of equal size from polymer clay, quickly and effectively. Once they have been shaped and baked, these little beauties can be used for all sorts of projects, from jewelery to decorating picture frames and much more.
Maxon's CINEMA 4D allows users to add a module called HAIR, integrating custom hair control to 3D projects. However, sometimes users may want to export the HAIR geometry to non-HAIR users. The process, although easy, isn't necessarily obvious. Here's how you can do it, or at least one way to do it.
Embellish sewing projects using various bar-tack stitching techniques on your sewing machine.
This video explains the science behind a trebuchet. The trebuchet is a medieval machine designed to throw objects at or into castles. This video explains that the gravitational potential energy stored in the raised counterweight is converted into kinetic energy in the projectile. Trebuchets make excellent science fair projects.
Plants dominate the living landscape around us. Learning about this essential part of ecosystems by collecting and identifying plants should be a part of any life sciences curriculum. Designed to support the Plant Press project at Hila Science Camp, this video discusses collecting and classifying plants and the importance of the classification system developed by Carl Linnaeus.
Incorporate hand drawing with markers, ink and tools into fabric projects for stand alone illustrations or to color in embroidered designs.
Many craft projects for children center around kids making soap. Recipes often call for Soap Flakes and people wonder how that would work. Especially note how only a little water is needed to bind the Soap Flakes together into a dough-like ball.
Rebecca Katz explains how to export your finished project for the web using Apple iMovie. The final menu will allow you to title your film and save it to a location of your choosing.
This video introduces you to the basic stamp to create your own electronics. The basic stamp is a microcomputer that can be programmed using basic to do anything from turning on a LED light to cellphone ringtones.
Don Schechter gives a rundown of system requirements and how to start, save, and choose settings for new projects using Adobe Premiere. To send your scratch disc, open the capture window by going to file and then capture.
Bre Pettis shows you three different strategies for surviving an egg drop. In addition to learning different egg drop strategies, Paula Kieko teaches you the physics of an egg drop to give you a leg up on your competition. This is yet another great weekend project with Make Magazine.
In this video, Bre Pettis of MAKE magazine uses an anvil, a hammer, a drill, and a dremel to make a ring out of a half dollar coin. This project requires use of a coin from before 1964 because half dollars and quarters were made of almost 90% silver and are able to be molded.
Detailed demonstration of how to change correctly to new color yarn in your crochet project. This requires an intermediate crocheting ability.
This video demonstrates a great rainy day project for children. It is a simple heart box made and decorated with foam shapes.
This video shows how to make an electromagnet and pick up some metal objects with it. A great project to do with your children. It will keep them away from the TV and even teach them something.
Make the most of your favorite photos by showcasing them in a beautiful mat and frame. For this project you will need: a picture,
In this clip, you'll learn how to utilize the Event Kit UI in the iOS 4 development kit. If you're interested in writing apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you'll need to know how to use the iOS SDK. If you're entirely new to the dev kit, however, never fear: the web is awash in high-quality, free tutorials like this one, which will teach you everything you'll need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started writing your own apps and ...
Here is a brief overview of some of the changes and additions to Blender 2.5. Keep in mind, 2.5 is still under heavy development and many things will be added/changed. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial from the folks at CG Cookie. For more information, including step-by-step instruct...