Honey, I Shrunk the Maker I built this 6x larger than real life, fully functional Arduino GRANDE. Why? There was talk among the MAKE: editors about how Arduino is really big at Maker Faire, and I t...
In an attempt to create more privacy inside, I've decided to install a small but smart curtain in that window. The curtain is smaller than the window, but an additional surveillance camera and an o...
MAKE pal Charlie Visnic, of the wonderful creativity blog the b-roll, was inspired by Matt Mets' post on how a mechanical watch works. Charlie decided to open up a pocket watch he had and do ...
DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers
We've seen our fair share of steadicams over the years. Not content with waiting around for a commercial solution, maker Spencer Watson decided to whip together this gimbaled steadicam for his new ...
So this is my question: based on experience, rather than theory, can anyone definitively say if duct tape wrapped around a PVC air chamber improves the safety of these devices? Please let us know i...
We've been making allusions for a while now to a new area of the MAKE website, "to be launched soon." Monday is blast-off! So, what are we launching? It's our new! improved!...
Well, I finally get to let the cat out of the bag. We've got Pixel Qi screens available in the Maker Shed as of today.
Anyone who has an otherwise indispensable PanaVise, Jr. knows that that the turning knob can be sort of a pain. MAKE Flickr pool member Triggerdog7 got fed up with his and came up with this larger,...
As our special quarterly theme comes to a close, I'd thought I'd share some awesome workshops we've covered in Make: Online. Some of these shops are glorious, others more humble, ...
Here's a neat, mostly animated music video with roughly 3,000 frames drawn by hand. You should check it out!
Studio-Re-Creation via Giz. Description: ‘The Transformer symbolizes the relationship between man and machine. Our first car, a Lada Samara Diva, has been re-created into a powerful figure. &...
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics A lathe is used to turn wood into baseball bats, spindles, and other shapes with rotational symmetry. It can also be applied to making many types of mat...
SpikenzieLabs make some of my favorite kits, including the Povard, and the VoiceShield. I love meeting the makers behind the kits, and I got a chance to meet Mark and Andy at Maker Faire this year....
Thanks to everyone who came out to yesterday's First Steps With Arduino Webcast! The video is now available on O'Reilly Media's YouTube Channel: O'Reilly Webcast: First Steps with Arduino.
This video shows a clever modification to the Thingamagoop: a lightproof cardboard enclosure with a cardboard strip to control the amount of light reaching the photocell. You control the synthesize...
Some observations: The table top pieces are only truly circular in their larger arrangement. In the "contracted" table, the 6 wedges in fact form a kind of rounded-off hexagon, and the outer tabl...
David Mach's coat hanger gorilla via Book of Joe.
The Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those just slightly off to the side). We look at retro-tech, "lost" tech...
Well, I suppose we all have to pay the rent. In the Japanese television commercial embedded above, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay sings an alternate version of the band's '90s funkyraver smash hit "Virtual Insanity" in which the lyrics have been changed to pra...