I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I write for MAKE, serve as Technical Editor for MAKE magazine, and develop original DIY content for Make: Projects.
A rose engine lathe (Wikipedia) is a type of geometric lathe used to produce complex...
Becky and Phil's ongoing quest to TRON-ify the universe, begun back in the summer of...
Another cool wearables project from Adafruit Director of Wearable Electronics (and MAKE alum) Becky Stern....
There are lots of great days, working for MAKE, but April 2 was one that'll...
More wearables goodness from Becky over at Adafruit. Folks have been crowing about the advent...
Thanks to everyone who sent in e-mails and pictures of their old warhorses and shiny...
The lights are out, the doors are locked, the diet coke is all mopped up...
MakerBot and Autodesk, who are sharing a booth this weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area...
Image by Amber Karnes, via Flickr If you're looking to add a new income stream...
Image by Hannah Kaminsky Our friends at VegNews were kind enough to share this delicious...
If your dad is a maker, take a look at this roundup of...
French artist Etienne Cliquet has developed a beautiful form of micro origami with a mesmerizing...
Artist David Wasserman painstakingly cuts shapes from tin cans, soda cans and other metal packaging,...
This is such a practical, simple and brilliant idea. Amy from The Red Chair Blog...
The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook, by Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius If you're a fiber...
By Katie Goodman Many kids will try just about anything as long as they have...
I’ve been collecting clever ways of slotting flat stock together since I first read Nomadic...
I’ve been collecting clever ways of slotting flat stock together since I first read Victor...
At normal listening distances, an array of twelve speakers arranged on the faces of a...
Recently, we've been brainstorming ideas for a breadboarding workshop to put on at Maker Faire...
This project is based on work by MAKE magazine contributor Tom Zimmerman. Tom, who was...
See Part 1 of this guide here. Thanks to Bart Patrzalek for the tip, and...
MAKE contributing editor Charles Platt proposed a "Hypothetical Tremolo Wheel" in his article about online...
If you're playing Rocksmith (and I think you should be), and you're playing standing up...
This is a set of three finely made flat-head screwdrivers with fancy hardwood handles and...
I have a buddy living here in Austin, Jon Wolfe, who makes these beautiful little...
The slide rule may be a quaint anachronism in this age of ubiquitous computing, but...
There's nothing especially complex about these pliers from prominent jeweler-supply house Rio Grande: one jaw...
This conspicuously brandless device, of Chinese manufacture, is for sale through multiple listings on Amazon,...
I've been following New York-based I Heart Engineering pretty closely since it first appeared on...
When I was growing up, my dad's toolbox was, quite literally, a chest of wonders....
I recently had to pull out my washing machine and remove a section of sheetrock...