Alan Parekh of Winnipeg makes these cool component-symbol coasters from 1/4″ plywood, sealed with polyurethane varnish. Ten dollars gets a set of six: resistor R1, inductor L2, LED D3, capacitor C4, transistor Q5, and ground GND. Good-looking, clever, and easy on the wallet.
In the 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 your […]
In this video, Tan Le, president of Emotiv Systems, demos the company’s computer-controller that uses brainwaves, thoughts, to direct actions on a computer. Her test subject is renowned AI researcher Marvin Minsky. The real action starts at 10:35, and I have to admit, it was pretty thrilling to see Marvin rotate that cube with his […]
Alan Parekh of Winnipeg makes these sweet component-symbol coasters from 1/4″ plywood, sealed with polyurethane varnish. Ten bucks gets a set of six: resistor R1, inductor L2, LED D3, capacitor C4, transistor Q5, and ground GND. Good-looking, clever, and easy on the wallet.
Kate at design*sponge shows you how to give your boring plants a boots with this tutorial on giving garden pots a pick-me-up. And if you’re into sprucing up your gardening pots, tools, labels or anything else, enter our Crafty Chica Challenge: Garden Glam contest today!
Dale reports that the last Open MAKE event at the Exploratorium was a great success. The above videos show the three featured makers for the month: Walter Kitundu, Ge Wang, and Krys Bobrowski. The Exploratorium’s blog has more: The event got off to a great start as the Young Makers got busy soldering piezo microphones […]
Mint tins have become almost legendary for serving as mini project enclosures. But what do you do if you don’t have one handy? Print your own!
