Bumped into this while poking around YouTube. An exemplary build of a Trimet BEAMbot, as covered in my BEAM projects in MAKE Volume 06. The near-perfect symmetry of the construction (often overlooked by some builders) leads to a really smooth, consistent motion. The builder used 1000 uF caps and the FLED (Flashing LED) variant of […]
Learn how to embroider in a lesson with Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching. Link.
A wood-fired hot tub made from a large storage container, an LP gas bottle, stainless steel tubing, polystyrene packing material, and some corrugated iron. That’s one bad-ass looking burner. How to build a wood fired hot tub – Link
MAKE has a blurb in the Wall Street Journal about our podcasts! – Entertainment value helps a video succeed. But that isn’t the only approach that works. Some small businesses have carved out a lucrative niche by giving viewers information they can use. Consider Make magazine, a guide for do-it-yourselfers. Published by O’Reilly Media Inc. […]
Instructable on designing a lamp for sending to the Ponoko personal manufacturing service. How to make a laser cut lamp – Link
Paul McGuinness sent us a howto for installing Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC. For the most part, the install is fairly straightforward, but there are a few performance tweaks that are different from a typical desktop system. The big one is that you want to disable the access time feature (noatime parameter in fstab) […]
Alice at Futuregirl has her Supercute Sea Creature Patterns & Instructions available now for $5 in her pattern shop! You’ll get the cute octopus, starfish, jellyfish, and little fish which will make the cutest ornaments for your Christmas tree! Link.
