If you’ve been watching the Circuit Skills videos, you’ve likely heard me grumble a bit about using breadboards. Indeed, I have much respect for anyone who can keep using a breadboarded electronics project and have it remain functional indefinitely. I dunno – perhaps I’m just a bit too rough-and-tumble with my hardware, but how so […]
Yes, that is a giant chocolate chip cookie with a brownie inside of it. Yes, you need to make these … now. Bakerella shows you how.
Kristen Rask of Plush You! fame is running a battle of the bands plush challenge, in which you have the opportunity to turn your favorite musician or band into a plush masterpiece! The deadline is September 1. Pictured above is Angelbot’s Sufjan Stevens finger puppet.
We get a lot of makers applying to sell art lamps in Makers Market, but Erik Smith’s are definitely on the high end when it comes to aesthetics and on the low end when it comes to prices. If you’re a collector, or in the market for a handmade lamp for yourself or as a gift, check out Erik’s shop. Or better yet, make one of your own! Or, even better, if you’ve already made one, post a link and show it off in the comments. If I get enough responses, I’ll do a reader-made art lamp round-up sometime next week.
The best stellar photography requires long exposure times to capture the dimmer stars. The problem with long exposures of the night sky, of course, is that it moves. Or rather, it appears to move. So if you don’t have some way of keeping your camera pointed at the same location over the course of the exposure, you get “trailing.” Eric Chesak built this impressive star-tracking camera mount bracket and won a Design News contest back in March with it.
MAKE subscriber Nick Santillan of Vancouver, BC, wrote in to share a video of his Red Blue CNC, a prototype which we posted about a couple months ago. The video highlights the ease of assembly and configuration of the machine. It’s assembled and disassembled with a single wrench, and can be configured as a wheeled […]
Just in time for the holiday weekend, Brookelynn @ CRAFT shows us how to spruce up an old charcoal grill with special BBQ paint: The humble BBQ is an essential part of summertime fun. All season long they can be found at block parties, tailgating, camp-outs, and down by the river. A good BBQ will […]
