Rocketboom field correspondent Bre Pettis makes a secret compartment book for make. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/make_a_secret_compartment.html http://brepettis.com/ http://www.makezine.com/

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In this video, I teach you how to make a spud gun. More info over at http://makezine.com/blog/archive/weekend_projects/

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In this podcast, Bre brings in Matt, the screenprinting expert of etsy.com, to the Weekend Projects podcast. Have you ever wanted to create your own t-shirt designs? Look no further! Don't forget to go and download the pdf to get all the details and supply lists. http://makezine.com/podcast

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In this video Bre Pettis and Joe Grand teach you how to use a multimeter!

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Bre Pettis teams up with Hardware Hacker Joe Grand to show you how to integrate LCDs and GPS into your electronics projects. Then they put these two things together on a basic stamp and create a portable GPS tracking system and go geocaching!

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his weekend, Bre Pettis shows you a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building. Paula Kieko breaks down the math and physics for you. If you want to have fun and get smarter, organize an egg drop in your neighborhood!

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Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back.

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In this Weekend Project Video Podcast for Make Magazine, Bre Pettis teaches how to make a wallet out of tape. It's fun, it's functional, and you probably already have the supplies on hand. Watch the video and go make a wallet, then take it to another level and make something out of tape that no-one has ever done!

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Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to show you how to make to squeeze the life out of your dead batteries by making a simple circuit called the Joule Thief!

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Todd Kollin shows us his Electric Motorcycle and explains how he made it.

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In this video Bre Pettis and Steve Garfield show you how to make a birdfeeder webcam!

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Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft

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With lots of hammering and dremeling, I turned a 1964 half dollar into an awesome silver ring!

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Using sticks and stones, this Rube Goldberg contraption is amazing!

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Make sure to check out the previous post full of instructions: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/make_podcast_weekend_projects_1.html This project can be found in the print or digital version of Make: 06. The article in the magazine by William Gurstelle, was inspired by the folks over at otherpower.com who came up with a hamster powered generator.

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Learn how to use these modules!

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In this video I make geometric spheres out of picnic materials!

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In this video, you'll learn how to build things in a 3d program called blender and then output them into Pepakura which turns them into 3d origami-style models

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Jesse and Nate explain how to make a sticks and stones contraption.

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In this weekend project video, Bre Pettis makes the Minty Boost kit and the Make: Daisy open source mp3 player and then makes casemods for them!

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Want to learn how to make a pumkin with a programmable LED array? Watch on!

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In this video Jake McKenzie, Matt Dalton, and Bre Pettis show how to put together a persistence of vision gadget that you can put on your bicycle.

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story links: blogference (thanks, yaron!), rb field correspondent and make podcaster bre pettis covers power tools drag racing at the seattle power tool race and derby 2007

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The Crucible is an organization that teaches people to be creative with fire. Watch the video to learn more

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I-Wei makes robots that are steam powered. It doesn't get any more steam-punk than this!

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