Amanda Williams and Bruno Nadeau of Fabule Fabrications want to introduce you to Clyde at this year's Maker Faire Bay Area. Clyde is a hackable, customizable desk lamp designed for...
Posted by Karen Tanenbaum | Monday May 13th, 2013 10:49 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Home, Makers | 3 Comments
Montreal artist and fabricator Ian Langohr is a multi-talented maker who sculpts surreal and humorous over-the head masks.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Thursday November 8th, 2012 2:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Sewing | No Comments
One of the exhibits at this weekend's first Montreal Mini Maker Faire will be The Buttonmashers' Arcade Royale, a four-player, re-habbed, re-programmed, and re-made video game cabinet.
Posted by Sabrina Merlo | Wednesday August 22nd, 2012 8:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General | 1 Comment
Longtime MAKE pal Raphaël Assénat wanted to recycle his stash of anti-static bags for component shipping, and built an improvised heat-sealer to do it. It's just a step-down transformer, some...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday November 21st, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science | No Comments
Alex Dumas of Sci-High Models took Editor’s Choice in Starship Modeler’s 2010 Just Glue It contest with this 1/87 scale replica of the Swift, a spacecraft from the late-70s British...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday October 24th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Craft, Energy | No Comments
I was psyched to finally get a chance to meet RobotGrrl at World Maker Faire. In this video from her table, she shows Chris Connor three of the bots she's...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday September 21st, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Robotics | 5 Comments
This is a well-documented solution for storing unlimited caller ID phone numbers. The site contains schematics and the software needed to decode and store the data. Some time ago, I...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Monday March 3rd, 2008 5:44 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 5 Comments
Raph writes - This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces....
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday June 12th, 2007 2:00 PM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Raphael writes in - Someone gave me a Kenwood infra-red keyboard, designed for some Kenwood audio equipment. In order to make somthing useful with it, I built a receiver which...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday April 18th, 2007 7:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Raphael writes - Being able to play NES and SNES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console is great (Thanks Nintendo!), but it’s much more fun to do it with the...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 2nd, 2007 4:37 AM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
Raphael sent in this rad Atari style joystick/controller to USB adapter - “When playing games from the 8bit computer era, I believe that gameplay is better using a real joystick...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday December 4th, 2006 11:23 AM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Raph writes – “I have used the NES/SNES controller on parallel port mod for years, but since parallel ports have become quite uncommon, I decided to design my own SNES/NES...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday July 6th, 2006 1:07 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
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