Year: 2010

ChemHacker’s DIY scanning-tunneling microscope up and running

Sacha De’Angeli of Chemhacker has announced the release of version oh-point-one of ChemHackerSTM, a scanning and tunneling microscope (SMT). I’ve gotten the scanning tunneling microscope built and working (well, 0.1 is just proof of concept). To celebrate and in anticipation of MakerFaire and Open Hardware Summit, I’m releasing all designs and source code using GPL3.0. […]

World Maker Faire Daily

World Maker Faire Daily

We have a World Maker Faire Daily widget on the front page of the Maker Faire site which includes a blog feed, the Faire’s Facebook page, and Twitter feed/Faire chatter. You can even add the widget to your own site if you want. We’ll be posting salient content from the Faire here on Make: Online […]

How-To:  Anodized titanium jump rings

How-To: Anodized titanium jump rings

Titanium is really cool for a lot of reasons, but this Instructable by, ah, “Thursday” highlights one in particular: It is incredibly easy to anodize, and produces really striking colors when anodized. So, you know, if you’re interested in anodizing this is an way to start experimenting. Thursday has stripped the anodizing process down to it’s absolute minimum here: small titanium bits, white vinegar, a stack of 9V batteries, and a counterelectrode. Now I want to see somebody use all those differently-colored rings to make a chain-mail photomosaic.

Serious Bagel Making

I noticed my pal, and fellow metro Detroiter, Jaime Wolfe posted some gorgeous photos of onion bagels she’d been working on this week on Facebook. Jaime tried out a recipe from Peter Reinhart’s Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers and the results look pretty good to me. Jaime sent me some background […]