The Basics First, youโll need a breadboard. You can call it a โprototyping board,โ but this is like calling a battery a โpower cell.โ Search RadioShack online for โbreadboardโ and youโll find more than a dozen products, all of them for electronics hobbyists, and none of them useful for doing anything with bread. A breadboard […]
So far, Iโve detailed the construction of my all-purpose maker-style workshop, which Iโve nicknamed the Barrage Garage. Itโs turned out beautifully, and as anticipated, itโs the envy of my maker friends. Small? Sure, itโs a mere 20 feet by 14 feet, but it has all the space required to do serious creating. Itโs loaded with […]
Egress A 9-foot-wide, automatic, well-insulated door outfitted with required safety equipment was essential. The huge door makes bringing materials in and out of the workspace a snap. Fenestration Natural light and a view to the outside were high on my list of priorities. Therefore, the design called for four east-facing sliding windows having a total […]
As a city dweller, Iโve often looked with envy at the spacious outbuildings of my rural friends and relatives. Horse barns, potting sheds, root cellars, equipment garages โ plentiful, enclosed, and private space is the one thing that makes me envy those who live beyond the end of the bus line. I think often about […]
Ky Michaelson, aka The Rocketman, hails from an illustrious line of makers. On his family tree can be found inventors of the motorcycle transmission and clutch, the rotary lawn-mower blade, the flip-top aspirin box, and the oxygen mask as used in commercial aviation. As a child dealing with dyslexia, Michaelson struggled in school, but discovered […]
Located on a quiet street flanked by gigantic shade trees in Burbank, Calif., Mister Jalopyโs garage is like a portal into the past and the future at the same time. Itโs fully stuffed from floor to ceiling with vintage tools, car parts, and movie memorabilia he picks up at garage sales. โI would fill my […]
Iโve spent most of my adult life having regular access to a workshop of some kind. My first really private workspace was in Brooklyn, N.Y. After moving from there to the mattress factory in Hunterโs Point, San Francisco, to my parentโs basement, to my own garages, closets, and cars, Iโve finally moved into my ideal […]
