Back in September, I shared the story of a group of Portland crafters who were rallying around to support a beloved local craft store. They’ve released special projects each week, showing things you can make with items you can find at the Knittn’ Kitten or your own local thrift or craft store. So far, the […]
Recently I’ve been helping a friend’s 11-year-old daughter get started in electronics. The use of a solderless breadboard was counterintuitive to her until I presented her with one of these clear-cased versions, available through Solarbotics. As she puts it, “you can see where the metal is.”
If you own an older Android phone and were curious about Google Maps Navigation, but were afraid to ask, here’s instructions to get it running.
Flickr member davesbit built a globe by making a mold from a beach ball, and designed a map for it using the open mapping tools.
This looks like an interesting development: Youtube user ArduinoWill claims to have managed to shoehorn an operating system onto the tiny microcontroller system, called Pyxis OS.
Congratulations to Alice in Seattle, Wash., and Laurel in Boulder, Colo., for each winning a copy of Jane Austen’s Sewing Box. (That’s right, there are two winners; there were so many passionate responses one extra lucky person is getting my ever-so-gently-used review copy.) Thanks to everyone who commented! I loved reading each and every response, […]
Want to fly your plane or drive your car using GPS signals, but finding that your receiver just isn’t accurate enough to make things work? Well, MAKE subscriber Bruce Mueller writes in to point us at an impressive solution: an open-source real time kinematic GPS receiver.
