This fascinating article and paper have been making the rounds amongst DC dorks. Seems like there’s lots of potential here for smart metering and other low power sensing, including medical applications. If these walls had ears, they might tell a homeowner some interesting things. Like when water is dripping into an attic crawl space, or […]
Last summer, I wore a pair of semi-opaque light blue tights to a friend’s birthday party. One of the toddlers there, a little girl, was fascinated and couldn’t stop looking at and trying to touch my legs. Tights are really interesting. And funny. In shape and size, they look just like your own legs, but […]
In just over a week, we’ll be hosting our first ever World Maker Faire NY, taking place September 25 and 26 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. The scope of projects that will be presented at the Faire is nothing short of amazing. One project is Karolina Sobecka’s Puff, the environmentally focused […]
Here’s a neat contraption: a vibrating conveyor that can move objects up a ramp without using a belt.
This video was a nice bit of inspiration, about what it means to make something from hand, on a rainy day here in Detroit. Learn more about the Fiber Craft Studio.
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 […]
Once the growing sprawl of electronic parts starts showing up in your dreams, you know you’ve got some tidying up to do. But who wants to spend hours organizing parts & gear when you could be having fun actually using it? Hmm … good point.
Well, if you do manage to pull yourself away fromall that hacking & experimentation for 10-20min or so, consider installing a quick-n-dirty wire rack to tame all those wild spools that roam your workbench.
