Magnify your workbench… William Grill needed a better view of his worktable for prototyping. He was using a three-times lighted lens mounted on his workbench, but it wasn’t enough for working on small gadgets. So he created a gadget for gadget prototyping — a monitor that can display his work at 12-times scale on his […]
Here’s a not from our Associate Publisher, Dan Woods… Even though MAKE is now carried in thousands of bookstores, newsstands and specialty stores throughout North America, we often hear from some makers who can’t find us at their favorite local store. Plus, as you may have read, newsstand distribution has recently become extremely contentious, convoluted, […]
Since I’m expecting a baby in a few months, assembling the proper library has been at the front of my mind, even if it will be a few years before it gets put into use! So I was delighted to see this roundup of children’s books over at Design*Sponge the other day (even better was […]
Keep your lip balm handy with this pattern to make a knit lip balm holder by Knitting in the Yarn Barn.
After I wrote the Electronic Embroidery article for CRAFT, Vol. 9, I had readers emailing me asking where they could get their hands on small quantities of the supplies needed to embellish their wearables and wall hangings with light. The Sparkfun E-sewing kit is great if you want a whole spool of conductive thread, but […]
In response to the scratch-built kid racer piece I blogged about, Nik Schulz sent us a link to this site celebrating CycleKarts. CycleKarting? Who knew? I love that you’re not allow to buy one. To race it, you have to build it. This is where we get to introduce everyone to the inordinately fun world […]
Open source Chumby… coming to your TV set via Engadget. Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) and chumby(R) today announced the integration of the chumby rich media Internet platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television (DTV), set-top box (STB) and Blu-ray Disc(R) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions delivering cost effective, high quality and personalized user experiences to Internet-connected TVs. The […]
