When I was in school, along with my regular academic classes, I had the opportunity to take practical arts classes in drafting, cooking, and sewing, as well as shop classes working with wood, metal, and autos. These experiences, in addition to summers tagging along with my jack-of-all-trades grandfather, helped to instill in me not just […]
ย ย The Building Blocks Every kid draws; I just never stopped. I spent countless hours dreaming up and drawing robots and creatures. People often call the ability to do art a natural talent, something youโre born with. But what many donโt see are the obsessive hours spent trying to improve on a skill that can […]
Schuyler St. Leger got his start with an original Lego Mindstorms RCX kit and was inspired by the tinkering of cartoon inventors Wallace and Gromit. From there he learned to write code with Processing and Scratch, explored electronics, and learned to knit from his grandma. The Garduino Garden Controller from MAKE Volume 18 opened his […]
When Andrew Katzโ brother snuck into his room and โscared the living daylightsโ out of him, instead of getting mad, he got smarter. Andrew combined ultrasonic sensors, an Arduino microcontroller, and his laptop to create his Notify Me Now stealth security notification system that alerts him whenever a sensor is tripped by changing images on […]
Whip up a refreshing batch of sweet summertime goodness with this strawberry lemonade recipe from Linda at Craftaholics Anonymous! Doesn’t that pretty pink lemonade look absolutely delicious? More: How-To: Berry Lemonade Cupcakes @Craftzine.com blog Recipe: Watermelon Lemonade @Craftzine.com blog Vietnamese Salty Lemonade @Craftzine.com blog
The maker behind the blog Making Weird Stuff shows us how he created a wood enclosed DC power adapter and a root-like cable for one of his Arduino projects, an animatronic reading lamp.
Displayed at the Fanabriques 2012 LEGO exhibition this past June, Nico71’s Lego loom uses only one motor! The system is very simple, a lever rotates on the primary shaft and makes contact with a cam one time per revolution. When this cam is pushed, it pulls on a rod which operates the main pushed system […]
