The Industrial Revolution began with kits. In 1763, Glasgow University’s scale model Newcomen steam engine broke, so the physics professor asked the school’s resident mechanic to fix it. A talented instrument maker, this university employee didn’t just get the machine working again, he figured out a clever way to improve the design by turning a […]
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Announcing the winner of the Project Remake contest!
Continue ReadingBack in our first year, the Maker Shed shipped more than 25,000 kits. Not a bad start, but after years of steady growth, we shipped 105,000 units last year.
Continue ReadingMy lovely wife and I built a chairlift to get from our lake house down to the dock.
Continue ReadingSpray bottles are a useful thing to have around the house, but often, like pens, they only work when you hold them at the proper angle. To solve this problem, Make: Projects user Jason Poel Smith shows how to mod your spray bottle with flexible tubing and some nuts on the end, to weight it. […]
Continue ReadingI don’t know about you, but I can’t resist a beautiful stack of fat quarters. The only problem is, I’m not really a quilter. Luckily, now that I’ve seen the fat quarter wrap skirt tutorial that Melissa from Polka Dot Chair shared on Project Run & Play, I have a whole new reason to give […]
Continue ReadingTrammell Hudson and phooky of NYC Resistor have been exploring read-only (e.g., non-volatile) memory chips in a series of fascinating posts on the hackerspace’s blog. phooky wrote The Joy of Dumping, which explains why you’d want to check out the ancient data moldering on decades-old chips: Which brings up the question of why you’d even […]
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