It seems Synthmaker Unearthed Circuits has built one of just about every popular sound project known to the internet-kind. But his knack for retro-military console styling sets his collection apart from others’ work – awesome to see such continuity of style and high-quality work. Example: the Stepped Tone Generator (aka – Atari Punk Console) – […]
Melka writes – I just released a first version of an Arduino XCode Template. I thought Makers would be interested to have code completion and stuff while coding for the Arduino ^^ Very cool. I’ve found Xcode’s bells and whistles to be incredibly helpful with writing/learning Objective C – I imagine the auto-completion feature alone […]
Francesco Fondi writes: While in Japan, I spotted this 1/20 scale replica of the famous Makino V33i CNC machine. This model kit is going to be released later this month from FineMolds for about $40. These kits have been produced using a real-sized Makino V33i, so a machine made (small) copies of itself… the only […]
h+ Magazine is edited by MAKE contributor R.U. Sirius. While it’s not exactly a DIY magazine in the conventional sense, it’s about making the future and about robotics, biohacking, brain-machine interfacing, space colonization, and other topics that may be of interest to MAKE readers. They have a digital magazine edition, a downloadable PDF version, and […]
Book-A-Day in May Last week was the last in our Book-A-Day in May, where we gave away Maker’s Notebooks to 20 Twitter followers and four Arduino MEGAs. Last week’s winners of Maker’s Notebooks were @j0nny5 @Arroxane @1stPageofGoogle @philomathickat @johalloran The winner of last week’s Arduino MEGA microcontroller was @eemaguire If you haven’t direct-messaged us on […]
The June GO-Tech (Ann Arbor, MI) meeting is this Tuesday, June 9, at 7pm. Everyone is welcome. Rick Chownyk will be demonstrating aluminum casting and Gene David (Portland, MI) will be showing off his steam-powered motorcycle in progress. Plus, there will be the usual assortment of 5-minute presentations — bring cool demos. Topics in the […]
Udi Tirosh, of DIYPhotography, sent us the link to this post on creating back-to-back ring adapters for macro photography on the cheap: One method of delving into macro photography is to use adapter rings. These rings have threads on both sides, one end is screwed onto your present camera lens like any filter and a […]
