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!
Month: July 2012
9 Volt Battery & Coca Cola Titanium Anodizer
NYC 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, […]
DIY Upholstered Checkerboard Card Table
I 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 […]
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 03: BeagleBone, Hackable Gadgets
BeagleBoard.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 […]
MAKE Goes to Comic-Con
We’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 […]
LEGO Step Sequencer
Vimeo 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]
The Pit of Despair
Nathan 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 […]
