Game programmer Jack Kern took time out from coding pixels and turned his house into a holiday color organ using Processing – This is my first attempt at a computer controlled light show for our Christmas lights. Everything was DIY including the software which I wrote in Processing (processing.org). Simple wiring using parallel port output […]
If you have the Google Phone and prefer hacking Python over Java, this is just what you’ve been waiting for: Here’s an early Christmas present for all those Python fanatics (self included) out there! With a lot of help from my friends (thanks Manuel and Thomas!) I managed to install Python 2.4.5 on my G1. […]
We had this 15′ long blade on the set of the Make: television show to serve as inspiration for a smaller-scale wind generator we built out of 8″ PVC. It’s a pretty incredible piece of work!
One of TIME’s buzz words for 2008 was “staycation” staying at home for vacation because things are expensive, that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s really not. You can use that time to make something, you’ll probably enjoy it more too! As things wind down here at MAKE for the week I am looking […]
Dave Prochnow writes on PopSci: Every AVR programmer worth her weight in ATmegas knows about the AVR Butterfly–a ridiculously low cost ATmega169 demonstration and evaluation kit. Lamenting the lack of such a kit for the ATmega168 drove me to design my own demo/eval kit for the Arduino microcontroller family. This project became a compulsion that […]
Keith our copy chief sent around a Make: television fact sheet so I figured I’d post it up here too… SHOW DESCRIPTION Make: is the DIY series for a new generation! It celebrates “Makers” – the inventors, artists, geeks and just plain everyday folks who mix new and old technology to create new-fangled marvels. The […]
Jen Stark (featured here several times before) just had a video produced about her that helps illuminate her motivation and process as well as how blogs are helping fuel her career as an artist. Via Wooster Collective. More: Jen Stark – Construction Paper Coolness!
