The folks over at Intuit are offering this deal to makers and crafters exhibiting at Maker Faire Detroit. If you accept credit card transactions on Visa, MasterCard, and Discover cards, on July 30th and 31st, using your mobile phone or tablet and Intuit GoPayment, it’s free during the Faire. No transaction fees! They’ll even give you a GoPayment card swiper.
The printable ball-and-socket unit that makes up this tentacle is really just a prototype in the early development of Thingiverse user Misguided’s not-so-misguided (if we may offer a bit of encouragement) project to develop a printable tentacle actuator. Everything about his description makes me happy, so I’ll just quote it entirely…
Ben Delarre shared his story with Make about the origins and future of Circuitbee, a service that allows you to embed schematics on websites. Have you ever designed an electronic schematic then wanted to share it on your blog? Or wanted help improving your circuit on a forum? Ever peered at a tiny/massive image of […]
If you want to make a screw of wood, the first tool you would think of is a lathe. But you can also make a screw on a scroll saw. In fact, I was stunned to learn of a surprising technique for using a scroll saw to make nested screws from a single cylinder of wood. These four helices were cut by Steve Garrison, who was the first to think of this, as far as I know.
When I was going through my photos last week, I found a stash of old negatives. I’ve saved them out of habit, but I can’t imagine ever needing them for prints again. Yet, they still seem precious to me. Instead of keeping them stashed away, I decided to put them to crafty use. One of […]
So you’ve started up a new blog. You can’t exactly call yourself tech-savvy, so you’ve taken advantage of a free blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress, and you’ve selected a nice design template from among their selection. So far, so good. But now, your new blog could really use a spiffy custom header, so people […]
The next episode of our streaming show and tell Make: Live is a special broadcast from Maker Faire Detroit, live from the Henry Ford this Friday. Join us as we celebrate the kickoff of a weekend of making in the Mitten at the worlds largest DIY festival. Make: Live 13 – Maker Faire Detroit Friday […]
