Everyone loves video games. But it can be difficult to enjoy certain games if you are injured or disabled and don't have the manual dexterity needed to execute fast button combos. Fortunately, we can use an Arduino to do it for us. The Arduino can send signals to the controller... Read more »
Math Mondays has been accumulating a lot of mail from all you fellow makers out there with a mathematical bent so today's installment marks the beginning of a series (the length of which depends on how much more mail you all send) based on readers' responses to earlier columns Read more »
Awesome Maker, and even awesomer Dad Kristoffer Dominic Amora dropped us a link to his Google gallery of pictures from the "working" arc reactor he made for his son to wear to the new Iron Man movie a little while back. It's a great medly of repurposed parts and creativity,... Read more »
MAKE is teaming up with Google again for our 2nd annual Maker Camp July 6-Aug. 16—a virtual summer camp that features six weeks of projects, making, field trips, and fun for teens hosted on Google+. And we need your help to round out our roster of fun loving, energetic makers. Read more »
When we post new content on MAKE, we love hearing from our readers. Whether the comments be informative, insightful, or funny, here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, Google+ Community, and Twitter. Read more »
From Star Wars cosplay to speampunk automata, from circuit bending to hacking t-shirts, from flying aerodromes to autonomous robots, here's a tour of the 4th annual Maker Faire North Carolina held in Raleigh on June 15, 2013! Read more »
Team Antipodes, a FIRST robotics team consisting of Emma, Kjersti, and Violet of Terra Nova High School in Pacifica, CA, built this sweet magnetic levitation vehicle. Read more »
Collin Cunningham’s videos remain golden! In Circuit Skills: LED Matrix he talks about LED matrices and how to control the LEDs with a multiplexing IC. He uses it to make a mini game machine! Many an experimenter, hacker, tinkerer, & maker have heeded the call of the mighty matrix –... Read more »
This was my third year attending Maker Faire North Carolina, which is in its fourth year itself. I've always enjoyed the Alamance Makers Guild exhibit, which features a cluster of makers from the guild, a community for Makers in and around Alamance County, NC. Read more »
It starts out with a seven year old boy who wants bunk beds. Read more »
We all know what drones can do in the hands of the military and law enforcement. For recreational use, they're fun to fly around with a GoPro strapped to its belly. The commercial use of drones is in its infancy. Congress passed a law last year requiring the FAA to... Read more »
There’s still time to get in on the launch of the Smart Citizen sensor and data platform; their fully-funded Kickstarter ends on Sunday. The Smart Citizen Kit looks to be one of the more polished efforts at building a distributed sensing and data aggregation platform. The kit is a microcontroller... Read more »
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