DIY Live has a short and sweet tutorial on reading color coded resistors – Link. Related: Resistor Color Code for 4 and 5 band resistors – Link. Visit MAKE in the virtual world and use our interactive resistor calculator – Link! Resistor Color Bands – Link. Homemade Simple Cardboard Variable Capacitor – Link. Soldering and […]
Matthew has a super LED lighting guide – “LED lighting is becoming increasingly popular in fish tanks, case mods, and even household lighting. This article intends to be a comprehensive guide to their advantages, powering them, and creating dimming solutions.” Link. Pictured here, LEDs from HOW TO – Build a 1,024,000 mcd portable light – […]
Just like these 2 past winners from last year, you too could be the one of the 36 chosen ones — fredflare.com’s next big thing! From the site, “We’re looking for creative girls and boys who make jewelry, clothing, accessories, printed matter, home items and more…36 of the most outstanding submissions will be featured for […]
We love these Pac-Man game beads complete with scared ghosts and power pellets. The colorful trinkets were all handmade by glass beadmaker Sarah Hornik. You can see the rest of her cool wares in her flickr gallery. Link.
Here’s an amazing fan made U2 video – earlier we posted about the new (free) tool Avimator to make custom animations, so we’ll likely see a lot of videos like this hitting the web soon. One thing worth noting, the group that makes the U2 videos not only has concerts for fun, but to raise […]
MAKE isn’t just for reading, on no! A sharp eyed MAKE reader spotted MAKE on our favorite news show, Rocketboom, being used to adjust raise their gear since they’ve moved to an awesomely new 16 x 9 format – today’s show also has some cool video of steam engine robots Link. Previously: Our interview with […]
WSJ article about collections, and what the collectors are worried about – “Young people today have little interest in the stamp, coin or knickknack collections of their elders, so an aging America can’t help but wonder: What’s going to happen to all those boxes in the basement?…In Palo Alto, Calif., Tom Wyman, 78, has about […]
