I look on Craig’s List frequently for items, both new and old, that I can use for craft projects. Take a look at this flowchart found by Dude Craft, courtesy of Lunchbreath, on how to describe furniture listings on Craig’s List. The next time you look for a piece to refurbish on Craig’s List, check […]
This past Thursday, a bunch of us took a field trip to the house that Leo built, the TWiT Cottage, in Petaluma. We were: Dale Dougherty, founder and GM of Maker Media, Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of MAKE, Gareth Branwyn, editor-in-chief of Make: Online, Sherry Huss, director of Maker Faire, Shawn Connally, director of digital media […]
This crazy story is making the rounds, it appears a virus was specifically designed to spin nuclear centrifuges. In order to do this, the virus writers most likely needed to reproduce this with the actual (duplicate) equipment… The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear […]
Learn to make a pompon, a bird feeder, and roast hot dogs on a rake from Amy Sedaris’s new book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People. Hilarious! Check them all out at her YouTube channel.
And now, a word from Stefan Antonowicz, our Director of Technology, freshly reformatted, reinstalled, and ready to rumble. — Gareth After the debacle of our last site migration attempt, after I’d been coaxed out from under my desk, heavy with geek shame, I’d exiled myself to the Principality of Sealand. I’ve had a passport there […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The rise of personal rapid prototyping machines, such as the Makerbot, RepRap, or Fab@Home, allows one to make a variety of geometric models. Polyhedral models, such as this 5 cm ABS dodecahedron, are fairly straightforward. Next is an 8cm model of a hyperboloid of one sheet, showing […]
Give your gadgets a brain! Previously out of reach for the do-it-yourselfer, the tiny computers called microcontrollers are now so cheap and easy to use that anyone can make their stuff smart. It’s called “physical computing” — with a microcontroller, your gadget can sense the environment, talk to the internet or other gadgets, and make […]
