Paul writes in with some good tips for new welders… – “I’m on a couple of welding mailing lists, and am a certified welder myself. Recently, a discussion has arisen on one of these lists regarding an inexpensive MIG welder aquired from Lowe’s. The individual in question was having difficulty getting a decent weld using […]
Here’s a special MAKEZine.com article “This is not your grandfather’s HAM radio” – by Thomas Arey N2EI. Many folks who read Make probably have an image of their grandfather, father, or kindly older neighbor heading down into their basement to talk to people around the world by way of amateur radio. This classic image of […]
Remember that crazy Amorphophallus Titanium plant we posted about? The one that’s called the “Corpse flower”? Cool Hunting has a great video with the staff at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden along with some time lapse of the blooming – “A celebrity of the plant world, the Amorphophallus Titanum, or “the corpse flower,” is a rare […]
I popped down to San Jose last week for the SRL show and ran into my friend Tikva Morowati who is in the ITP program in NYC. She was really enjoying the ISEA/01 symposium. She sent me this great write up of the stuff she liked for all of us who couldn’t go, but would […]
We did a quick expo-hall dash at the Linux World Expo – today was the last day, so the expo hall was for the most part dead, the last day after 1pm at any conference that has an expo hall usually is. We were greeted with this puzzling sign, no one under 18 allowed – […]
Ok, Makers – you had a ton of great questions for Sony and their e-ink ebook reader, the Sony Reader (PRS-500) and here are their answers (some of them they could not answer at this time – developing software for the device mostly)… Post your feedback in the comments. Special thanks to Sony for thinking […]
Lorin Parker has created a unique vocal synthesizer using a microcontroller, basic principles of analog and digital synthesis and an integrated “Speakjet” chip. The source code is open source, and schematics, hardware plans and kits will be posted soon too – Link. [Link updated, thanks Sam! -cc]
