This semester at Parsons the New School for Design, I had the pleasure of teaching a group of inspired students (both undergrad and graduate) about DIY projects online. The students were interested in everything from electronics to crafts, and their final projects are tutorials across a very wide spectrum of topics. Here are the project […]
Jonathan Guberman of Toronto, ON, wrote in with his lovely Game of Life monome game. This project has been gathering dust for over two years, and joining my local hackerspace (Hacklab.to in Toronto) inspired me to finally finish it! More: Game of Life Kit – Make: Video Podcast EKG-controlled Game of Life hoodie Game of […]
Etsy’s Eric Beug profiles upholstery makers SpruceHome in this eye-catching video. Eric writes: Amanda and Lizzie, two Austin, TX based gals, are combining a long tradition of skills with a savvy design eye. Like many in the Process series, there is so much fascinating effort that goes into their work that it’s difficult to distill […]
After checking out the last installment of our Circuit Skills series, Mark Warwick went to work building his own take on the function generator project using a Pelican case + a custom laser-etched front panel. As you can see, the results are quite awesome! Additional infos after the jump – I’ve had quite a bit […]
Erica from P.S. – I made this has a fashionably sweet tutorial on how to make a pom pom necklace inspired by the pastel colors on the spring runways. Look for an exclusive fashion project later this month by Erica here on CRAFT!
The folks at cellbots.com are at it again. This time around they’ve swapped out all the 5v components for 3.3v and in doing so have wired everything to run off the G1’s internal battery.
Here’s a follow-up video to Jeri’s earlier run through of her fabrication of an NMOS (N-channel) transistor. Here, she demonstrates some of the electrical characteristics of a P-channel transistor she fabricated in her home chip lab. Surface-mount it ain’t, but hey, homemade! Homemade Transistor Demonstration More: How-To: Roll your own NMOS transistors
