MAKE Presents: The Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope is a surprisingly easy to use diagnostic tool for electronics once you’ve learned the basics.
Year: 2011
Cupcake Cupcake Topper
Rah of That’s Noice! posted a super simple tutorial for making mini “cupcakes” to put on top of your regular-sized cupcakes. Spoiler alert: It’s just a mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup with frosting on top. I love the completely frivolous cupcake-on-a-cupcake look. Serve them alongside some Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Deconstructed “Dress Boy” Chairs
Chairs are kind of like puppies. They seem to follow you home. On street corners, in thrift shops, at garage sales — there is no shortage of slightly worn, perfectly lovable seats, just waiting to go to a good home. And if you’re like me, and you can’t say no, pretty soon you’ll be running out of floor space. I mean, how many dinner guests can you expect when you live in 500 square feet? Solution? Deconstruction.
RoboGames 2011 Discount Ticket Offer
Our wireheaded cohort over at RoboGames have made another generous offer this year to all MAKE readers. David Calkins writes… RoboGames invites all MAKE readers to discounted tickets to “RoboGames 2011,” the eight annual international robot olympics. This event highlights the best robot teams from around the world, in 70 different competitions. Everything from acrobatic […]
The Rainbow Project
The one good thing that’s come out of the disaster in Japan is the wonderful and creative relief efforts people are launching all over the world. (See Lish’s post, Crafters Come Together for Japan Relief Efforts.) I really like the Rainbow Project as well. The idea is simple: “By uploading your own photograph of a […]
Deconstructed Electronics Art with Ben Innes
Ben Innes is a Knoxville, TN-based artist/photographer who does (among other things) installations of deconstructed electronics. Our friends at element14 have teamed up with Ben to create an art piece to be shown at Maker Faire Bay Area (May 21, 22). And they’re looking to crowdsource the subject matter of the piece. On the Ben […]
Top 10: Free Downloads
Woohoo! Free stuff! Not counting software, here (except a coupla fonts), because almost without exception, all the software we’ve covered on Make: Online is free, and we’ve covered a lot of it. Free software’s a whole series of round-ups. Here you’ll find templates, calendars, posters, plans, papercraft models, and other cool stuff you can download and use completely gratis. Enjoy!