Year: 2011

MAKE on TWiT Live

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 […]

MAKE Volume 25: Arduino

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 […]

How-To: Lunchtime clock

How-To: Lunchtime clock

Randy Sarafan writes: Have you ever wished lunchtime were longer, but didn’t know where to find those few extra minutes? Well, wish no longer! Thanks to great in advances in clock technology, I present to you a clock that speeds up 20% every day at 11:00 and slows down 20% every day at 11:48, giving […]