Steve Winter of Berkeley, CA designed Counter Intelligence to catch his cats trying to investigate the kitchen counter when he and his wife are not around. Steve used an Arduino...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday October 1st, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | No Comments
Travis Chen of L.A. added a Thingamakit synthesizer (formerly sold by Bleep Labs) along with with dual LEDacles, to his Nintendo R.O.B. robot, then sold it on Etsy. [Via Bleep...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday September 29th, 2011 8:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Hacks, Music | No Comments
I just got back from New York City where Eric Stackpole and I spent the weekend exhibiting and talking about OpenROV at the Open Hardware Summit and World Maker Faire....
Posted by David Lang | Thursday September 22nd, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: General | 10 Comments
In honor of Plastics month here on MAKE, I'm excited to chime in with some of my recent Zero to Maker exploits into the world of silicone. For the non-maker...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 20th, 2011 2:00 PM
Steve Cooley of Campbell, CA, made this super easy and cool build platform for his kids. Wow, Tinkertoy is even more awesome if you drill some holes in a board...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday September 19th, 2011 7:00 AM
Categories: Kids & Family, Tools | 3 Comments
Sometimes, I get this feeling like I've seen it all - that nothing that comes along is ever going to inspire or delight me the same way that certain ideas,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday September 19th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Science | 4 Comments
So far on my Zero to Maker journey, I've spent a lot of time with the technical aspects of making, with a heavy emphasis on learning the necessary skills to...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 13th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Education, General | No Comments
I’ve been researching fun ways to use scrolling LED signs and came across this cool piece by Los Angeles-based visual artist Daniel DeSure. This unconventional LED scroller was on display...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Sunday September 11th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics | 7 Comments
Today we bid farewell to intern/hacker/friend Nick Raymond. Nick has been an intern at MAKE as long as the sands of time, curating such projects as the Wooden Table, or...
Posted by Jake Spurlock | Tuesday September 6th, 2011 5:30 PM
Categories: General | 2 Comments
There's something about the process of joining two pieces of metal together that captures people's excitement and curiosity. Outside of a romantic idea of welding masks, torches, and flying sparks,...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 6th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Education, Workshop | 14 Comments
At extremes of temperature and pressure above a substance's so-called "critical point," the distinction between liquid and gas phases of that substance stops being meaningful, and the substance enters a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday September 6th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Science | 3 Comments
I think you’ll all get a kick out of Duane Flatmo‘s El Pulpo Mecanico, a flame-shooting octopus vehicle from this year’s Burning Man. I have to agree with Cyriaque Lamar...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday September 5th, 2011 8:30 AM
Categories: Energy, Workshop | 3 Comments
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