In the Maker Shed: Wee Blinky kit
The Wee Blinky is a simple LED flasher kit that you can easily build, even with no previous soldering experience. It’s tiny, it blinks, and it’s a great kit to hone your soldering skills since it’s cheap too!
Year: 2010
In the Maker Shed: LED Lightbrick kit
The LED Lightbrick kit includes all the components needed to make your own version of the project that was featured in MAKE, Volume 18. Once assembled, the circuit board is ready to be cast into a finished interactive nightlight. (Casting and mold-making materials not supplied with kit)
Post-disaster shelters
Around the world, people are preparing systems to deploy in emergencies like the earthquake in Haiti, the Asian Tsunami of a few years ago and other situations such as hurricanes, floods, fires and the aftermath of war. Medical personnel are crucial, but their stuff needs to be with them, and they need a place to work. Below are a number of shelters that can be delivered and set up in places of need around the world. The people developing these systems are working hard, often with little funding and driven by their passion to create better designs. The projects below are all in some phase of the Design Process, and each could have its place in a variety of challenging situations. Each community has its’ own traditions of architecture, and the materials available vary by region. The designers of long term structures need to remain sensitive to these local realities.
Everything I need to know I learned from D&D
Last night I gave a talk at IgniteOKC, Oklahoma City’s part of the Ignite series of talking events, called ‘All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Dungeons and Dragons.’ I had a ton of fun with it and I think it will be of interest to any fans of roleplaying games in […]
Got a parking spot for a discounted spaceship?
The schedule for transferring the orbiters may be six months earlier than originally anticipated. NASA also desires to make selections a year before receipt of the orbiters, so recipient organizations will have sufficient time to conduct any fundraising activities necessary to support preparation and ferry costs.
NASA is planning to transfer space shuttle Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum. Shuttle orbiters Endeavour and Atlantis will be available for placement no earlier than July, 2011.
Where would you like to see the Space Shuttles end up? Check out the RFI for specifics.
Old-school maker workshop
I love looking at a well-used workshop, mainly because I don’t have one myself. This photo shows the shop of someone’s grandpa, packed with over 50 years of projects and history. What does your workshop look like? Upload a shot to the MAKE Flickr pool.
Crafting on the Go: Organizing Craft Supplies #1
During our Craft Spaces interviews, we posed a couple of questions relating to crafting on the go to our spotlighted crafters. One of the questions we asked was: When you have to craft on-the-go (while you’re traveling, in the carpool lane, at family activities) how do you organize your craft supplies? Find out the answers […]