Our “News From the Future” column in every issue of MAKE magazine is one of my favorites and it’s expanded to posts here on MAKE. So, I’m turning the “News From the Future” category on MAKE into a newsletter – To get regular updates by email (once a month) sign up for the News from […]
You’re on fire, being picky, the history of the grapevine, learning to communicate, and the nitty gritty – The latest Tips-N-Tools newsletter from MAKE is up! Maybe it’s a tiny pick for getting into tight corners; maybe it’s a dental mirror with an LED that helps illuminate the dark corners of a late-night project. Maybe […]
Every year, Microsoft gets it’s researchers to share what they’ve been thinking about at a little techfest. In the past it’s been a relatively closed event, but this time they invited lots of press and bloggers to come a day early and check it out. Brady and I headed over to Redmond to check it […]
Ken writes – Here is a link to a model rocket company called Quest. I just found a DIY project on their site that let’s you make an Inclinometer (a tool that allows you to measure the height of an object by angle). I downloaded the files and built one – it works great for […]
The Evening Chronicle has an article on a teen-turned-fuel baron… sorta – He happily admits he’s hopeless at school – but Steven Henderson is Tyneside’s very own oil baron. Northumberland’s answer to JR Ewing has built his own oil refinery in the shed at his home in Stamfordham Road, Eachwick, near Ponteland, which he uses […]
One of the reasons we made the MAKE open source daisy MP3 player was for artists to easily use in their projects and we’ve seen a few examples so far, here’s another. Matt writes – “..I was involved in an art piece that used your (MAKE) Mp3 player. It was an interactive art piece, in […]
Attila writes in with a how-to on isolating solate amniotic stem cells from a placenta, at home – this should generate a lot of conversations… check it out, the complete steps and discuss! “The placenta is a very valuable human tissue, although the proper recycling of it is not placentophagy, but to isolate stem cells […]
