Welcome back from a long weekend! Here’s this week’s Primer! Solering and Desoldering by Joe Grand. Step-by-step instructions for making (and unmaking) the perfect solder joint. Page 162 – MAKE volume 01. Read this article now in the MAKE digital edition. Or get MAKE 1 from the Maker store and/or subscribe to MAKE (use code […]
Awesome 35lb LEGO Heart @ Street Anatomy by Nathan Sawayaรขโฌโขs called “Heartfelt” via Book of Joe. Nathan writes- I created an anatomically correct human heart for the Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego. A piece like this is a great tool to help doctors talk to young patients about their own hearts. Hopefully kids will […]
Keep an eye-out for Make Vol. 14, which has a special section on optics. You’ll learn how to make an inexpensive but powerful digital microscope that will allow you to display bacteria colonies on a video monitor, a vintage-looking opaque projector that can display artwork from books onto a wall, a model of a crazy-angled […]
Say hi to Patti, she will be doing some fun post for youngsters and oldsters here on MAKE.! Patti is a freelance indexer and copyeditor who lives in Seattle, Washington. She’s worked for Microsoft Press, Peachpit Press, and Make: Books. She’s also dabbled in glass art, paper automata, robot building, knitting, and she used to […]
It’s no news that practice is the only path to being truly great at something. The art of software development is no different. The demand for programmers the way it is, however, means that a lot of folks jump into their careers head first with a certain level of formal subject knowledge, but very little […]
Whit’s Knits on The Purl Bee teaches you how to knit up a super easy baby blanket using a garter stitch.
On D+R, Mister Jalopy points us to the winners of the 2008 IPMS scale modeling contest in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been to some of these miniature and models contests and the models and dioramas are incomprehensibly detailed and expertly painted. Having spent years studying this artform (I used to run a sci-fi tabletop wargame modeling […]
