Hey Crafters! If you are in the LA area, don’t miss the SoCal launch of CRAFT Magazine hosted by members of LA’s Felt Club. Meet Carla Sinclair – CRAFT’s Editor-in-Chief, Mark Frauenfelder – MAKE’s Editor-in-Chief, and chat with your fellow crafters. Eat cupcakes, win door prizes, or take some crafty how-to classes – Link. Related: […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Tsangal made a nifty switchbox with volume knob and jammed it in an Altoids (the project box of choice for Makers). The title of the project is passive pre-amp, but I’m not sure where the amping is being amped – Link. Related: Altoids and tin cases Archives – Link. From […]
Add this to the gross/awesome/fun Halloween and scary cake collection… – Link. More: CAKEs @ MAKE – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what […]
Jonathan Schwartz @ News.com has an article that will be making the rounds quite a bit regarding unencrypted information on some of the new credit cards. I fully expect our Makers to make a text to speech version that screams out names as people walk by – “They call it the “Johnny Carson attack,” for […]
Todbot writes – “The notes for the third class are up on the Spooky Arduino class page. Also are links to many of the Arduino code sketches used in the class. Here’s a 10-minute project that’s a glowing orb thing similar to the Ambient Orb (but much larger!) using the techniques from this week’s class.” […]
Have a drivers license that has a 2D barcode (pictured here) here’s how to check out what’s on it… – Link. Related: SWIPE toolkit – Link. The SWIPE Toolkit – What data is on your license? – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Magnetic Stripe Reader – Have you ever wondered what information is stored […]
What ever happened to the gas powered pogo stick? Science And Mechanics 1960 – “Powered Pogo Stick is made up of a king-sized 1-cylinder engine fired automatically by a trip switch that is placed strategically beneath the foot rests. Will this gadget require a vehicle license? Who knows? It ought to be something to see […]
