Double rainbow meets resistor color codes in this helpful and hilarious poster, “Double resistor! What does it mean?” by Matt Mets. Source file included. More: MAKE presents: The Resistor HOW TO – Read color coded resistors HOW TO – How to read a resistor (PDF) Open source resistor “CAPTCHA” learning – commenting plugin for WordPress […]
CasaSugar takes us behind the scenes in this amazing photo-filled house tour with Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This! Drool with me if you will over all her craft closet (so neatly organized I may add) as well as everything else she DIY’ed in her loft.
What better way to explain the way complicated mechanical devices work than by using an animated GIF? [Via Core77]
I’ve been eating a lot of ice cream this summer; I just can’t get enough. One possible outlet for such an obsession could be to sew up this felt ice cream sundae plushie, a lower-calorie alternative to the frozen good stuff, using the tutorial by antibromide. More: How-To: One-Ingredient Ice Cream Ice Cream Cone Balloons […]
Inspired by Sam Redfield’s rural alt.energy work in hydro-electric power, featured here on MAKE, “Fishboy,” working out of the Vancouver Hacker Space, created this micro-hydro plant in a plastic bucket. The power generator in the system is a Permanent Magnet Alternator (PMA) with a pelton wheel directly attached to the shaft. Water is sent through […]
Congratulations to the Kansas City Mini Maker Faire team for hosting an excellent Faire! Along with countless happy visitors, I had a great time learning about all of the awesome projects that were being presented, such as a remote-control Nerf gun, soda can crusher, and miniature drum set. The MakerBots were out in force, and […]
It’s a dreary, rainy day here in Virginia. Stuck inside the house, if I had young kids, this would make a fun activity, the kids probably tittering the whole time about building worlds inside of toilet paper tubes. We’ve covered Anastassia Elias’ work here in the past, but it bears repeating. Paper cuts – Rolls […]
