The video isn’t exciting but it’s cool, showing the actual spoofing of an RFID signal — the maker’s antenna and an actual RFID tag, both scanning the same. RFID tags are all over the place. They’re used in building access control systems, passports, inventory tracking…. This instructable will show how you can use an Arduino […]
My kids have been coming home from school every day with a countdown of how many days until summer vacation. It’s got me dreaming of travel in a big way. Maybe I’ll have to whip up one of these handy travel document holders from Thimble and see if I can make some of those travel […]
MAKE Contributing Editor (and author of Make: Electronics) Charles Platt just filed this little report from the commercial space conference he’s covering for us. — Gareth The Lynx suborbital spaceplane from XCOR I’m attending the Space Access ’10 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, with the intention of writing about some particularly exciting ventures for a future […]
The DIYLILCNC project is a set of plans for an inexpensive, fully functional 3-axis CNC mill that can be built by an individual with basic shop skills and tool access. CNC devices are used to fabricate physical objects with a high degree of precision. Some CNC devices, including the DIYLILCNC, feature a gantry-mounted cutting tool […]
Instead of being built with wood or metal, this unique xylophone (or rather, Lithophone), uses pieces of hornfels stone for sounding bars.
Ever wonder what goes into the design of a vacuum tube audio amplifier?
Eric Wilhelm @ Instructables writes: This is how I made a low-profile bed frame cheaply from wood slats. We want our mattress low to the ground so if our daughter ever falls out of bed, she doesn’t have far to go. We learned the trick of putting the family bed on the ground from Christy’s […]
