makezine.com: Weekend Projects Celebrates One Year of Making!

MAKE Newsletter for August 3, 2007

Help us celebrate Make: Weekend Projects' one year birthday and make your very own tabletop biosphere.

Makers,

Weekend Projects is celebrating it’s first birthday! One year ago, Bre Pettis, Make: Video Producer, started creating a video every week showing you how to make a project over the weekend. Every Friday, you can watch Bre make another project in the video. A PDF accompanies every video with more details, plans, photos, and drawings to give you the measurements and parts lists that you need to make the project yourself!

Bre’s video tutorials show you how to make a wide variety of things. Some projects are crafty like creating your own T-shirt designs or making a duct-tape wallet. Others are more technical, like showing you how to solder or use a multimeter. Some projects are just plain fun. Making a power tool drag racer or a spud gun is a great way to spend your weekend!

Things don’t always work out the way that Bre plans them. Sometimes things break, explode, or just don’t work on the first try. Viewers get to see firsthand that prototyping things is a trial and error process.

One of the great things about the podcast is that Weekend Project viewers actually make the projects and customize them! After seeing the video on making your own workbench, makers posted pictures of the benches they made, detailing the ways that they customized the design to fit their space. One maker even added a cement top to make a stand for a giant aquarium!

Visit the archives at:
http://makezine.com/weekendprojects

If you subscribe in iTunes, you can have both the video and the PDF downloaded automatically every week.

The weekend is here, so pick a video, get cozy at your workbench, and let the making begin!

Cheers,
pt

Phillip Torrone
Senior Editor - MAKE Magazine

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Make a Tabletop Biosphere - Make: Video Podcast

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