Have an oscilloscope, have an Arduino – you need this! The Arduino ClockShield via Ladyada. The latest incarnation of the Dutchtronix AVR Oscilloscope clock, the Hardware 3.1 Enhanced kit, uses the Atmega328p AVR with twice the code space. Using a 1KB bootloader (Arduino compatible) makes 31KB of application space available. This extra code space makes […]
There are a lot of makers who read MAKE with Google’s news reader (Google Reader) and now you can read it your native language with Google’s auto-translate feature they just rolled out – more details here on the Google blog… and you can read MAKE here.
Dale Grover, host of GO-Tech, tells MAKE: The next GO-Tech meeting is this Tuesday, November 11, at 8 pm. We’ll be in our new location, A2 Mech Shop, the new shared technical space that several of us are setting up. (Directions at link below.) We’re still moving in, but there will be plenty of space […]
Jeffery Rudell shows how to make this holiday reindeer out of fusible interfacing over on Craft Stylish. You could do this to make any origami model sturdier; it’s a neat texture, too.
Wired’s how-to wiki gives us “Cake in a Mug,” perhaps the greatest thing to come to the microwave since peep jousting: You’re working at home and your mind starts to wander to snack possibilities. There are probably some prepackaged, good-until-the-next-millennium baked items in your cabinet, but you’re in the mood for something warm from the […]
Now that you can run commands as root on the Google phone, you may have been thinking about what else you can do with the device. You know, besides the usual talking, texting, and surfing while driving. The device is Linux based, sure, but the installed software is relatively spartan and there isn’t too much […]
My son and I built the Mechamo Inchworm kit – actually, he built most of it himself, I helped figure out a couple of parts issues and put together some tiny bits. This is a great kit for kids! He’s 14, but hasn’t built a lot of kits before, and it went really well. He […]
