Welcome — Open, Sesame
You’ll learn how to make a remote control lawn mower, hack remote control power outlets, cheaply control appliances over the web, and drive a toy car with “telekinesis.”
Year: 2010
Make: Biosphere — Three years and counting!
Way back at the end of March 2007, a couple of MAKE interns sealed the lid on a ghost shrimp and a few snail friends on what the staff thought would be a three-hour tour. Err, I mean a 90-day biosphere odyssey. Yesterday at 16:35:56 marked the end of the third year of our little […]
How-To: No-Sew Stereo Speaker Makeover
Claire of Needlebook shares this handy way to update or change the look of your stereo speakers with just a bit of fabric and some double-stick tape.
April is lookin’ Geek Chic!
Our theme this month will cover high-tech wearables, soft-circuits, geek-centric clothing (science and tech T-shirts and jewelry, etc), and maker style (the clothes worn by makers that are optimized for work). We’ll have original soft circuits articles and projects, round-ups of the best projects and posts we’ve featured in the past, some great give-aways, and […]
Featured Maker: Andrew O’Malley
Ottawa native Andrew O’Malley makes these beautiful animated light sculptures, featuring finely crafted cases, hand-built electronics, and custom programming to achieve, as he puts it, “entertaining behavior through a playful balance between rules and randomness”:
Plush Bazooka
This is Lauren Fatzinger’s fabric bazooka, which is part of a series of plush weapons. [via Neatorama] More: Plush AK-47
April Fools’ Arduino alarm
After we put the kids to bed last night my wife and I realized we needed to set up some April Fools’ Day pranks. So I built this motion sensing alarm and tucked it into the shampoo bottle recess in the shower. When the kids entered the bathroom they got an earful of beeping piezo buzzer for their troubles!