Brady writes – “Just a quick reminder, that tomorrow night is the first Ignite Seattle from O’Reilly Radar and Make. We have over 25 speakers planned, a popsicle-stick bridge-building contest and Werewolf. We have speakers lined up from Amazon, Ontela, UW, Microsoft, MySQL, some independents, and a slew of startups. Topics range from “Dorkbot” to […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mister bend made an incredible custom camera… “I find myself humming the Imperial March under my breath an awful lot when holding this thing… These are the parts that make up Darth Handy. Clockwise from top left we have… 75mm Nikkor-SW in a fotoman helical mount, sitting on a custom […]
Bonnie made her own R2D2 pinhole camera. She told me she had big plans when she saw the pinhole camera weekend projects podcast. Wow! To make a shutter (this will go over the pinhole until you’re ready), you can simply use a piece of thick black electrical tape to hide the pinhole, and then when […]
Macaba writes – “Ages ago, I was toying with the idea of making a DIY in-air PC mouse, and had designed it in my mind. A few days ago I saw the Wii-remote bluetooth PC controller hack and thought that it was good time to throw together my own version. As shown on http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/ the […]
The squarewave ring in my ears finally faded, here’s a round up of the coverage from the Blip Festival 2006 in NYC – MAKE was a sponsor and had a table there with our kits and zines. The fest consisted of a small but growing community from around the world – there’s something delightful about […]
CRAFT friend Bonnie Burton has posted up a complete photo tutorial on how to make your own R2-D2 pinhole camera. It’s also a great way to use your old oatmeal container and soda cans in the process! Link.
Erik writes – “I created this and a few other iCurve style stands in wood. I experimented with cherry, maple, oak and red oak. No stain was used, only lacquer, so the original beauty of the wood comes out. The trick part was keeping the notebook from sliding down the stand. Two short pieces of […]
