Maria Binns of One Hour Craft has created a great tutorial series on how to teach a child to sew. Lesson 1 went up earlier this month and now Lesson 2 is up as well. Lesson 1: Sewing Basics – Link. Lesson 2: How to teach your child to sew around the edge of a […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mr_tentacle has a new bot! “The overall height is about 15”. Changes from the original design include more height (4 more inches), Hitec H5995-TG high torque servos for drive instead of the original gearmotors, 6″ diameter wheels, and more mass at the base to reduce the torque load on the […]
Bruno of Curbly has a great video tutorial up on how to create your own distinctive book art. Link.
One of my favorite sites is doing an event in NYC – Jan 16th, 2007 (tonight 7pm). Some of the guests include: Joe Kittinger (space jumber) Kim Peek (book memorizer), Nate True’s time suspender machine and Jesse Ferguson’s Rube Goldberg machines! Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society event – Link.
Congratulations to Kath and the Whipup.net team for their 1 year anniversary! Now you’ll get a chance to bring your creative artistry to the site by participating in their banner design contest. Entries close on March 1st. Read more about all the details! Link.
Matt has a great iPod Shuffle box headphone amp (excellent re-use!) writes – “I made a CMoy headphone amp based on the description in Make vol. 4. It wouldn’t fit in an altoids tin, so I put it in the clear box that an iPod shuffle came in. The wiring is kind of messy, but […]
Gareth writes – “I posted another how-to on Street Tech related to my MAKE BEAM articles. This one is on Vibrobots, a type of solar-powered bot that gets around by using pager (or other DC) motors that have vibration weights on their shafts. The control circuit is the same one I talk about in my […]
