We tweeted a link to these on our Make_Tips channel, but I thought they were worth reposting here. Strung here are most of the pearls of wisdom needed to be successful in ye ol’ art of soldering: I. Thou shall not remove tip from soldering iron when power is “On.” Causes heating element to rise […]
My son got one of the Emotiv headsets as a college graduation present. It’s pretty amazing tech, early-adopter gear, for sure, but with tons of potential. He’s already coming up with ideas for game designs and art installations controlled by it (he has a degree in game design). In this video, Robert Oschler, of Robots […]
Bento boxes are a great way to combine your love of crafting with the chore of making lunches for school. Fun artistic details marry delicious and healthy food and then play house in cute little containers! Just Bento has been posting up great simple recipes for back to school. Check out these ten tips for […]
Tom Hoffman and I spoke about SchoolTool at the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. This system helps remotely-located schools share data with national governmental ministries of education, through Ubuntu and SMS.
I’m swooning over these embroidered Lego minifigure plans from Cross-Stitch Ninja on Flickr. I found some plans for a lego minifig while image searching for something, and who could resist stitching that? Imagine all the layers of geekiness in such an embroidery! I’m imagining them, and I’m loving them. Related: Home is Where the Lego […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: If you’ve ever bricked the BIOS on your PC, then you might appreciate the Openbiosprog-spi project by Uwe Hermann. It is designed to be able to reprogram any flash memory that uses the serial peripheral interconnect bus (SPI), which could come in handy if you need to restore a […]
Trying to attract some feathered friends? Try making your own bird seed feeders: You can save money by creating your own hanging treats, instead of purchasing preformed bells or biscuits. Conversely, you can spend a ton of money spoiling your wild animal friends. You can attract a lot of wild bird company by hanging out […]
