10 Tips for Using Conductive Thread
Ready to add LEDs or electronic components to your projects, but aren’t sure how to get started? Check out this conductive thread video from Becky Stern at Adafruit!
Month: January 2013
Learn a New Skill in the New Year – Getting Started with Arduino
Why not add learning a new skill to your repertoire in the New Year? I know you’ve seen loads of projects that use the Arduino, and with special deals on our Getting Started with Arduino Kit, there’s no better time to learn how to use this versatile microcontroller.
How-To: Grow Celery Indoors
Turn celery ends into your own home-grown crop with this simple tutorial!
Embroidered Toile Sneakers
Artist Richard Saja whimsically modifies traditional toile fabric with his colorful embroidery work, including these snazzy sneakers created in collaboration with Keds and Opening Ceremony.
Next-Gen Lego Mindstorms Set Announced
I’m excited to see what Lego does with their next Lego Mindstorms set. Due out in Fall of 2013, the Lego Mindstorms EV3 refreshes what has become Lego’s best selling product lines. Details are vague, and it’s hard to get a sense of what has changed in the set. Certainly most of the beams and […]
DIY Smartphone LED Ring Light
A ring flash will get you a shot with uniform lighting without harsh shadows. Lighting blogger Simon Ellingworth whipped up this LED variant for smartphones using a UFO-style camping light, a cheap smartphone case, and some velcro. You’ll obviously have to tweak your settings to achieve the effect you want, but anything has to be […]
Best of 2012: The MAKE Flickr Pool
Today’s post marks the 170th MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup. They’ve been running each weekend under that title, with very few interruptions, since February 2008, and have settled into a more-or-less regular format. Each Sunday we present seven pictures, in reverse-Letterman order, starting with the image that, for whatever reasons, is our favorite of those submitted during the preceding week. Generally, for the roundup, we choose pictures based on their aesthetics. And we’ve seen some stunners this year. Settling on only seven proved to be impossible, for me, so I’ve doubled the weekly count, for this annual best-of, to fourteen.
