Part of the Arduino schematic (via) Mikey Sklar has a good overview of how to get started designing circuits: A blog reader asked me earlier today how to get started with circuit design. After very little thought I replied directly via e-mail, but I’d like to share my $0.02 with the rest of our readers […]
Here ya go BitTorrent & Miro folks… Torrent of Make: television episode 04 – Fire Sculpture & DTV Antenna… Meet the Flaming Lotus Girls, a women-centric maker collaborative that creates gargantuan, fire-breathing sculptures. In the Workshop, John Park builds a digital TV antenna from wire coat hangers and a $10 video camera stabilizer. William Gurstelle […]
Listeners Applaud Program Modern Mechanix, 1937 – BY PRESSING an electric switch, radio listeners may express approval of a current radio program. Holding down a small switch attached to the base of a small lamp placed near the radio, the increased current drain is shown at the local power plant or substation. Now being used […]
Those crazy kids from Threadbanger share their tips on making a space helmet hoodie. What the heck is a space helmet hoodie? Watch the video and learn!
Ed Bourgeois built one of the finest home roasters I’ve ever seen. Here is a list of his requirements: 1kg.+ electric roaster My goal was a roaster that could do at least 1kg green. with electric convection heat. I mainly wanted the abilities to: control and monitor every function remove the chaff as produced into […]
Tabistry? Yup. At least according to this site it’s the “art of creating versatile textile out of ordinary soda/bear/soup/fruit/other can pull tabs woven together with fabric, ribbon, cord, wire, jump rings or any other material.” Some of the work is quite lovely. Seems a little… inappropriate to make a kid’s hat from beer can tabs, […]
I was looking through the old catalogs photostream that Evil Mad Scientist linked to recently, and found this very cool book of puzzles from 1914.
