How-To: Button Coasters
Protect your table from coffee mishaps and cool drinks with pretty button coasters!
Month: January 2013
Webcast: How to Get a Raspberry Pi Up and Running
This Wednesday, Shawn Wallace and I will be hosting an O’Reilly webcast about the basics of how to get a Raspberry Pi up and running. It’s a free webcast, but you do have to register to attend. If you can’t make it to the webcast, check out our book, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, which […]
How-To: Glittered Party Hat
Party hats don’t have to be JUST for parties – sometimes you feel like dressing up for no special reason.
Community for a Healthy Makerspace
Occasionally, I’ll visit a frustrated makerspace. “We have a space. We have tools. Where are the members?” They describe how they’ve put energy into the physical aspects of the space and say nothing about the community building aspects.
How-To: Get Well Kit
Cold and flu season is definitely upon us. Know someone who has the sniffles? Make them a soothing, helpful care package with this get well kit tutorial!
Flashback: Easy Faux Glass Eyeballs for Steampunk Projects
Creating faux glass eyeballs (that seem to follow you as you move) is very simple using actual eye images and glass bubble gems.
Visiting a Motor Factory in Shenzhen
MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able to go to that factory. Once we arrived at the factory, […]
