How-To: Wooden Stump Twine Organizer
Need a little help keeping your twine untangled? Turn your unruly rolls into the prettiest display in your craft room with this wooden stump twine organizer tutorial from Megan at Radmegan!
Continue ReadingNeed a little help keeping your twine untangled? Turn your unruly rolls into the prettiest display in your craft room with this wooden stump twine organizer tutorial from Megan at Radmegan!
Continue ReadingNYC Resistor’s Herb “POTUS31” Hoover experimented with a titanium anodizer project that uses daisy-chained 9V batteries and a sponge soaked in Coke. I’ve been wanting to anodize titanium and use the laser to create masks for the different colors. Translucent oxides form on titanium with heat or voltage. (I also tried lasering colors into niobium, […]
Continue ReadingI love upholstery projects, and this upholstered checkerboard table tutorial is no exception. I have to admit that a part of me thinks it’s a little bit insane to piece a vinyl checkerboard (why not just stencil one with paint??) but the rest of me just thinks it’s awesome. It’s part of a great Upholstery […]
Continue ReadingBeagleBoard.org launched the BeagleBone last October as an inexpensive, hacker-friendly variant of the BeagleBoard. The price ($89) and size (it comes with a custom Altoids-like tin) have attracted a small community of hardware hackers looking for an open embedded Linux solution for projects requiring a bit of horsepower and speed. One shining example is the […]
Continue ReadingWe’re excited to be covering Comic-Con this year for MAKE, as part of our “alt.” event coverage, where we look at these cons through a maker’s lens. I got here last night and things were already hopping. The scale of this event is staggering. I’ll be talking to some old friends and MAKE contributors, like […]
Continue ReadingVimeo user superquadratic posted this video of an amazing music sequencer that is operated using LEGO pieces. It was made at this year’s ADVANCE HACKATHON in Cologne. [via Adafruit]
Continue ReadingNathan Seidle (CEO of SparkFun Electronics), shown in the above video at the MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop, has posted a written re-cap of that talk, which tackles the “Pit of Despair” for open hardware projects: what can our community do to help makers when they “are thrust unceremoniously from tens of units to thousands of […]
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