Spiral Dot Printable Box
Shala at Don’t Eat the Paste has a spiral dot printable box available for download in a variety of colors, perfect for party or wedding favors!
Year: 2009
Quick fix for a stripped lens mount
From the MAKE Flickr pool I was particularly non-plussed upon discovering my vidcam’s lens thread had been stripped while using an exceptionally cheap wide angle attachment. Rather than sending it in for repairs I pondered the options – epoxy? tape? ick! To my surprise, I found that a small piece of fabric placed between the […]
Etch-a-Sketch Embroidery
Shae of Shae’s Random Musings created this Etch-a-Sketch embroidery after being inspired by an unfinished picture frame she spied in a craft store. Read more about how the project came together on her blog.
Apollo 11’s touchdown indicator
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member 5Volt points out an especially historic schematic from NASA’s publicly available Apollo Lunar Module documentation. Its function was to light the appropriate indicator lamps once the module made contact with the surface of the moon – The lights are two (top of drawing) on two different panels, namely […]
How-To: All-breadboard shield for Arduino
MAKE subscriber John Honniball points out this interesting take on the proto shield design. o0mouse0o’s recipe for a “Large Prototyping Shield” consists mainly of breadboard – plus a few headers, and some stripboard. Having recently become an Arduino fan I want to be able to have several projects but save the expense of buying more […]
Unofficial Find My iPhone API
@brady over at radar.oreilly.com has an excellent summary of what some folks are already doing to integrate Apple’s new Find My iPhone service into their location aware applications.
Toolbox: Soldering tools, part 2
In the twice-monthly Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into […]