Portable, loud, and fashionable. Take a vintage suitcase and install a set of speakers, passive crossovers, an amplifier, and a couple of rechargeable batteries. Now, you have a portable, albeit...
Posted by Patrick Gallagher | Monday May 13th, 2013 1:04 PM
Categories: Electronics | 9 Comments
Have fun building moving toys out of simple and recycled materials with these easy-to-follow instructions. The Moving Toys Workshop will also be at Maker Faire Bay Area this year, so...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Thursday May 9th, 2013 5:23 PM
Categories: Craft, Kids & Family, Paper Crafts | 1 Comment
Knock Knock is a clever Arduino-controlled calculator toy, designed for small children. The user knocks out a calculation on the surface — addition, multiplication, subtraction, or division — and Knock...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Tuesday May 7th, 2013 11:14 AM
Categories: Arduino, Education, Kids & Family | 1 Comment
Tardigrades are tough little creatures. The tardigrade was originally named "kleiner wasserbär," which means "little water bear" in German. They are tiny (~ 1 millimeter long), eight-legged animals that live...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Thursday May 2nd, 2013 4:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Crochet, Science | No Comments
The FM radio band (88-108 MHz) lies just below the Civil Aviation Band (108-138 MHz), which is used for air traffic control, air shows, and other ground-to-air communications. This means...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Hacks, Electronics | 7 Comments
Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no...
Posted by Andrew Sleigh | Thursday April 4th, 2013 2:45 PM
Categories: Arduino, Furniture, Maker Pro | 5 Comments
MAKE's photo editor, Gregory Hayes, made this fantastic draft-dodging hyena out of a pair of his destroyed work jeans, to keep the draft from creeping in under the door of...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Monday April 1st, 2013 4:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Home, Sewing | 2 Comments
With all the egg projects out in the blogosphere right now, Katey of Having Fun at Home wanted to find something cool to do with the egg cartons. I say...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday March 27th, 2013 4:23 PM
Categories: Craft, Kids & Family, Paper Crafts | 3 Comments
When I saw the title of this blog post over on Knits for Life, I internally rolled my eyes. "The world's best yarn storage idea? Right…" But after I saw...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Tuesday March 26th, 2013 3:49 PM
Categories: Craft, Crochet, Knitting | 24 Comments
3D printers have exploded in popularity with promises of reinventing everything from manufacturing to entrepreneurship. While 3D printing has a few detractors and people who point out that it won’t...
Posted by Stephen Murphey | Monday March 25th, 2013 5:41 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Crowdfunding, Maker Pro | 46 Comments
Our sacrilegious illusion converts water into flowing red wine.
Posted by Pierre Micheal and Robert Kaye
Categories: Food & Beverage, Hacks, Home | 4 Comments
This is my version of a classic way to “roll” the die for a board game.
Posted by Gus Dassios
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
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