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Portable, loud, and fashionable. Take a vintage suitcase and install a set of speakers, passive...
The FM radio band (88-108 MHz) lies just below the Civil Aviation Band (108-138 MHz),...
Many makers love microcontroller platforms like the Arduino, but as the complexity increases in an...
This is a comprehensive guide to soldering the MAKE Holiday Ornament. It's a simple, fun...
MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of...
Ron Bean has a fascinating post on Milwaukee Makerspace's wiki about his project to plumb...
San Francisco-based electrical engineer Joe Grand has spent the last two decades finding security flaws...
Charlieplexing is an ingenius method for controlling many LEDs without using many microcontroller pins. You...
A little more shadowy than their debut earlier this year, the Toa Mata bionicle robot...
On Make: Projects, Jason Poel Smith uses a pair of LM741 op amps to build...
Wouldn't it be cool if your accessories could automatically change color to match your outfit?...
Figuring out how much to charge for your product is the second most common question...
Graphic designer Lucy Sansom turned her sister into a human theremin and then made...
Instructables user vigothecarpathian adapted a holiday decoration to create a fully functional Beaker puppet that...
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to...
Robot Room's David Cook shows how an LED and op amp, along with a resistor...
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson and formed the company Technical Illusions to launch a new product...
The inventions of Nikola Tesla are all around us: radio, AC power, fluorescent lighting, and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNK8FCGnc3s Today at Maker Faire, ArcAttack's Steve Ward showed me why he comes to Maker...
Dr. Marek Michalowski co-founded BeatBots with Dr. Hideki Kozima in 2007. Their creation, the Keepon Pro, is...
Last October, a few of us were at the O'Reilly Strata conference in New York building...
Got a passion project and want to build a team around it? Start in your...
The first day of Maker Faire opened Saturday with an exuberant crowd of tinkerers, experimentalists,...
Radio Shack is showing off a sample of their new Delta Series Mini PC Board...
Today, Arduino announced a new family of wireless products that combine the Arduino architecture with...
Andrew "bunnie" Huang backed Formlabs' 2012 Kickstarter for the Form 1 liquid resin (SLA) printer...
One of my favorite things about Maker Faire is all the new product announcements. This...
Very soon, it's going to be a lot easier to find great projects, materials, and...
Best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places, Mitch...
Maker Faire is a unique event when it comes to the world of 3D printing....
Collin Cunningham's awesome videos are always great to watch. This time, Collin shows how to...
MAKE's 2nd annual Hardware Innovation Workshop concluded yesterday after two inspiring, thought-provoking days. Thanks to...
How do bits and bytes feel on your fingertips? Like your controller’s gravelly rumble when...
Hardware is hard, the quip goes, but there's never been a better time to be...
One of Maker Faire's newest Blacksmith Sponsors is HAXLR8R, a hardware startup incubator based of...
A major manufacturer of CNC routers today launched what it hopes will be "a whole...
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at http://makeprojects.com/Project/Hot-Cold-LED/2445/1 Combine an Arduino, an ultransonic distance sensor,...
The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and...
Charlieplexing is an ingenius method for controlling many LEDs without using many microcontroller pins. You can turn on or off one LED at a time. To light more than one...
MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of...
Maker Alessandro Grossi sent us this great DIY build for a 3D scanner built using...
Maker Alessandro Grossi sent us this great DIY build for a 3D scanner built using...
Charlieplexing is an ingenius method for controlling many LEDs without using many microcontroller pins. You...
A little more shadowy than their debut earlier this year, the Toa Mata bionicle robot...
This week, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes for my podcast, Looking Sideways....
The Diyode Codeshield is a fascinating project out of the Diyode hackerspace in Guelph, ON....
Today, Arduino announced a new family of wireless products that combine the Arduino architecture with...
Video of my science fair project. Is it possible to control a robotic device using only human gestures? Using the...
Turn an iPad into a studio-worthy, deep-end experimental musical instrument.
When our house was built, I put a server room next to my office. Unfortunately, it had only a small bathroom-style fan with a 4″ duct leading outside, and during...
Radio Shack is showing off a sample of their new Delta Series Mini PC Board...
Today, Arduino announced a new family of wireless products that combine the Arduino architecture with...
Tinkercad is back — and it’s even better. Autodesk announced today they’ve signed a deal...
A host of hopeful startups will be in evidence today the Bay Area Maker Faire....
NYC Resistor's phooky built a punchtape reader to read some old punchtapes. After an initial...
While I’m best known for chance-based “circuit bending,” I’ve been composing and playing deterministic music...
Today we debut a new monthly video series: Projects with Ryan Slaugh. Each new episode...
This cool mapping system created by MIT uses a Kinect motion tracker, a laser range...
For those of you who haven't yet played around with Raspberry Pi, this one's for you. In this how-to video,...
How to assemble the enclosure that’s included in the Raspberry Pi Starter Kit.
Pierre Villeneuve attached five hobby servos to a Lego model, controlled with a motor control...
The Monday Jolt is a column about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE every...
Some months ago I finished an original Space Invaders restoration project, but as you can...
In celebration of Raspberry Pi's first birthday earlier this year, MAKE partnered with MCM Electronics...
These beautifully CNC machined Aluminum cases for the Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi are now...
This post was originally published in two parts [1,2] on the The Daily ACK Aug. 25,...
NESIT Hackerspace in Meriden, CT, is building a RFID-equipped security system to secure the space....
The Monday Jolt is a new column about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE...
Week 5, Tinkering Tuesday at Maker Camp. Meet RobotGrrl and her posse of robotic birds, and learn about robotics and...
Make one from a Blistex tube, mini hobby servo, and an aluminum shaft.
Gather the parts and follow the basic instructions and you can have a robot capable of following moving objects! With basic coding experience, you can also change the distance at...
Pierre Villeneuve attached five hobby servos to a Lego model, controlled with a motor control...
Dr. Marek Michalowski co-founded BeatBots with Dr. Hideki Kozima in 2007. Their creation, the Keepon Pro, is...
Got a passion project and want to build a team around it? Start in your...
A host of hopeful startups will be in evidence today the Bay Area Maker Faire....
One of my favorite things about Maker Faire is all the new product announcements. This...
Maker Faire is a unique event when it comes to the world of 3D printing....
Polish Lego builder piotrek839 built this sick robot arm that packs some pretty impressive functionality....
Building Bigger As maker hobbies go, building robots is one of my favorites. I know...
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