John is working on a one wheeled self-balancing skateboard project and he’s just posted a how-to! After reading a Make magazine article on the self balancing unicycle of Trevor Blackwell I thought about trying to build a one wheeled skateboard style device. I then found a self balancing skateboard on the net built by Ben […]
Only one more day until the Make: television show premieres! These photos of me and Bill Gurstelle are from the VCR Cat Feeder we built for the first episode. Here’s a look at how we scripted the segment: The process of writing the scripts for the Maker Workshop segments was pretty organic. Executive Producer Richard […]
Happy birthday Isaac Asimov! Biochemist and Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov was born today in 1920, wrote tons of Sci-Fi books capturing the imaginations of millions, and perhaps best known by makers for his creation of the “Three Laws of Robotics”: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being […]
If you want to start the new year with a beautiful calendar, Creativadoration made a roundup of awesome 2009 calendars. Happy New Year!
I don’t know about you, but every new year, I come out of the gate with a new commitment to be more organized and work-efficient in my never-ending, nerfarious plans to take over the world. In searching out new organizing tools, I found this line-up of eight print, fold, make paper tools at Unplggd. I’ve […]
It seems shouting in the datacenter increases disk latency, fun experiment – we’ve all shouted in the server room, maybe we need to do it outside from now on… or just go all SSD.
Bob Hickman, Minty Amp maker, sent us a howto on making a jig for small form factor soldering projects. I often have to solder up a bunch of PCBs that are the same size, but have a bunch of fiddly components on them. To save time and frustration, I decided to re-purpose a used chewing […]
