Ideablob has a collection of projects that users of their system have submitted to a user response contest to win funding. Here is a quote from their About Us page: ideablob.com is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Laser sundial [above, bottom-left] How-To: Sample sequencer w/ Meggy Jr. + Arduino WaveShield DIY photobooth looks classic LED badge hacking MIDI control panel based on Arduino with a personal touch [above, bottom-right] Trumpet Hero mod [above, top-right] Keeping time with ChronoDot [above, top-left]
LEGO hacker Philo Hurbain needed a way to model some of the more complex LEGO parts for use in the LDraw LEGO CAD program. Most LEGO parts are easy to model, but something like the tiny LEGO frog, shown above, is a little more tricky. Philo’s solution: a 3D scanner made entirely of LEGO, save […]
When you can’t mend it anymore, A Patchwork World transforms her friend’s daughter, Ava’s favorite T-shirt into huggable pillow in her T-shirt pillow tutorial.
Here are the Show Notes for Episode #003 of Make: Talk. Our guest was Forrest M. Mims III. News of the Week Before we talked to Forrest, Dale told us about his meeting with Rodney Brooks and Patrick Sobalvarro of Heartland Robotics and how they talked about radical changes happening in small-scale, cottage production and […]
MyrddinTheGeek needed a cover for his Kindle: The Kindle 2 unfortunately doesn’t come with a cover so I made one with a makers notebook. I cored out the pages to the thickness of the kindle. Now I have a hard sided cover a few extra pages for notes and all the reference pages in the […]
I love this sweet and simple lampshade upgrade from Make Grow Gather. She’s provided a photo step-by-step tutorial to show just how she created it.
