Core77 DIY Design Award Winners Inspire
Last week, internationally renowned design site Core77 announced the winners of the Core77 Design Awards. We were really inspired to see the level of creativity in the DIY design category. Check out...
View ArticleHAM Radio 80th Anniversary “Field Day” This Weekend
Every year on the fourth weekend in June, the largest amateur radio event in the US and Canada occurs. It’s called Field Day. The first Field Day was in 1933 and this year’s event— June 22-23—is the...
View ArticleRobot-Assisted Xylophone
The makers of MakeBlock, a very cool and sophisticated extruded aluminum building set, are showing off their stuff with this fantastic xylophone-playing robot controlled by an Arduino. MakeBlock, as...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Friday: Our Favorite Projects This Week
Here at Make, we’ve been fans of crowdfunding as a way for makers to move their dreams from prototype to product for a long time. We are just now starting to take baby steps towards curating and...
View ArticleIs This 3D Machine a Printer or a Fabber?
Are 3D printers a continuation of developments in a modern technology that started over 500 years ago with Gutenberg? Printers use a variety of materials and processes, and now you can print in 3D. Or...
View ArticleCan It Be Water-Damaged? NeverWet It!
This product looks really cool! NeverWet is a two-part coating that can be applied to nearly any surface — cloth, electronics, concrete, and so on — and it totally repels liquid. It was developed by...
View ArticleLondon Calling! Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire set for July 6
Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire, London’s first maker faire, is a go for Saturday, July 6 in Elephant & Castle, a small, bustling London neighborhood just south of the River Thames. The...
View ArticleK’Nex Tic-Tac-Toe Robot
Instructable user OddBot built this Arduino-controlled Tic-Tac-Toe robot built out of K’Nex (actually, he used LOZ, a K’Nex ripoff product) using ping pong balls. He controls the robot with a universal...
View ArticleWise Tips from MAKE Readers
“Don’t get so caught up in thinking that you never do anything.” “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” For our upcoming Make: Newsletter, which will be...
View ArticleHacking for a Better Food System
Hackathons are great for solving software and hardware problems. So why not apply that process and energy to our broken food system? That’s the thinking behind a Hack//Meat Silicon Valley underway at...
View ArticleHow CAD Empowers Kids: Carl Bass at Maker Faire
The chief executive at Autodesk obviously prepared this talk for kids, and he arrived at Maker Faire dressed for the part: wearing a baseball cap, t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. Not what he wears when...
View ArticlePeople over Megahertz – Massimo’s article on Make is online
When I was a kid I got into electronics because I started reading specialized magazines on the topic. At the same time it was hard for me to learn electronics from them because the content was not...
View ArticleArduino workshop at Fondazione Castiglioni – Visual report
Last weekend at Fondazione Achille Castiglioni Massimo Banzi held a workshop called “Arduino and the light” where participants learned the basics of Arduino and created an interactive lamp digitally...
View ArticleHow-To: 3D Print a Model of your Brain
Take those MRI slices and stack them back together to build your brain. Read more on MAKE
View ArticleBook Excerpt: FabLab—Of Machines, Makers and Inventors
The following excerpt is taken from Paulo Blikstein’s essay, “Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education: The Democratization of Invention.” The essay comes from the recently published FabLab: Of...
View ArticleMonitoring falcons with intelligent nests
The Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) is a small falcon at the center of HORUS, a project aiming to develop a system for automatic real-time monitoring of colonial falcons at Doñana Biological Station, a...
View ArticleAll About the Diode
Collin Cunningham explains what diodes are all about, describing the history of the component, the various types, and even touches on creating your own. [M]aking this installment of the series taught...
View ArticleDARPA’s New Humanoid Robot, ATLAS
DARPA has been working on a few impressive humanoid robots for the past few years. As before, they’re collaborating with Boston Dynamics to develop the ATLAS humanoid, and they’ve clearly come a long...
View ArticleMaker Pro Newsletter #20
“We thought it was going to be a security camera. It turned out to be an everything camera.” From the editors of MAKE magazine, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and...
View ArticleFPGAs, LEDs, Tools and Wearables: New Products in the Maker Shed
We’re in the midst of a very busy summer here at the Maker Shed — we’ve been traveling around the country for various Mini Maker Faires and are preparing for the next World Maker Faire in September....
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