It can be frustrating to have to take off your gloves to use your touch screen phone. Capacitive touch screens sense how conductive your fingers are, and gloves are, well, insulators. Learn to mod your gloves with conductive thread in this episode of Becky’s Workshop. See the complete how-to on Make: Projects. Subscribe to the […]
Need some inspiration for Thanksgiving decorating this year? Home Made has a tutorial on how to make small felt pumpkins. The tutorial walks you step by step through the process of making these cute, teeeeny pumpkins.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could make a machine that would make 3D models of phenomena otherwise invisible to you? It’s fun to do, and it’s is an amazing creative process to create a machine that produces something that you can hold in your hand from the invisible – and it’s surprisingly easy. In this video I’ll show you how to use simple materials to create some unexpected results.
I drew Adam Flaherty for my MAKE Secret Santa. Here he is pictured toasting with Marc de Vinck at FOO camp. He’s a gadget enthusiast, and when I ran into him in the O’Reilly parking lot in Sebastopol, CA last week, he was holding a 2-liter bottle solar lantern – it looked like a bottle of light, and I’m excited to see him document his build based on this previous post.
Whenever the weather starts to get nippy, I convince myself that this will definitely be the year that I finally try my hand at infusing my own extracts and liqueurs. The time always seems to slip away from me, but after seeing the recipes for these lovely infused butterscotch and coffee liqueurs on Wee Folk […]
This time of year, I’m always on the lookout for gift ideas that would be perfect for both men and women, so this camera strap with lens cap pocket tutorial from Vanessa at Little Big Girl Studio immediately caught my eye. The look and style can be completely customized to fit any personality by choosing […]
Ohio IT professional Rick Pollack founded MakerGear, LLC in 2009 to “develop products and services for the rapidly expanding maker community with a focus on advancing digital fabrication.” Working with wife Karen, Rick has already brought two fully-developed desktop 3D printers to marketโa well-regarded Prusa Mendel kit and their flagship design, the Mosaicโas well as a line of accessories and upgrades for each.
