Day: August 18, 2011

MorpHex = Conventional Hexapod + 2

MorpHex = Conventional Hexapod + 2

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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This is Norweigian Kåre Halvorsen’s MorpHex project. +1: MorpHex improves upon the traditional static hexapod body by the addition of a set of six radially-irising arms, each of which carries the top leg joint of one of the six legs. By expanding or contracting the iris, the diameter of MorpHex’s overall footprint can be dynamically […]

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How-To: No-Sew Nipple Tassels

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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There’s nothing quite as eye-opening as stumbling across a pair of glittery, bejeweled pasties first thing in the morning! Our friends at Bust Magazine must have sensed that I’d run out of coffee, because this tutorial for New-Sew Nipple Tassels was front and center when I opened their email newsletter. The how-to provides step-by-step instructions […]

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In the Maker Shed: Learn to Solder Kit

In the Maker Shed: Learn to Solder Kit

By Maker Shed

Maker Shed

The Maker Shed is brought to you by Maker Media, the makers of MAKE Magazine, the Maker Faire, and much more.

Launched originally as a source for back issues of MAKE Magazine, the Maker Shed expanded rapidly to meet the demand for 'projects in a box,' otherwise known as kits. Now we have a little bit of everything for makers, crafters, and budding scientists, from Arduinos to sock monkeys to chemistry sets .

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Are your soldering skills rusty or non-existent? The Maker Shed can help with the Learn to Solder kit! The kit has everything you need to build a flashing European-style siren including a 30W soldering iron, wire cutters, and lead-free solder.

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MAKE’s Marc de Vinck speaking today at FAB7 Symposium on Digital Fabrication

MAKE’s Marc de Vinck speaking today at FAB7 Symposium on Digital Fabrication

By Brian Jepson

Brian Jepson

I'm a tinkerer and finally reached the point where I fix more things than I break. When I'm not tinkering, I'm probably editing a book for Maker Media.

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FAB7 is the annual international Fab Lab event which gathers field practitioners and laboratory researchers from the Fab Lab network and beyond, for a week of hands-on workshops and a one day academic symposium on the principles and applications of digital fabrication. Marc de Vinck, MAKE’s Director of Product Development, will be speaking in the Applications track about Maker Shed and what works for us: open source hardware, kits that help makers get started with stuff they’re interested in, and more.

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Hackerspace Happenings: Pittsburgh MMF Call For Makers

Hackerspace Happenings: Pittsburgh MMF Call For Makers

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings run weekly(ish) Tuesdays, and the next one will come out August 23rd. Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire — Call […]

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