How-To: Patchwork Sock Yarn Recipe
Got stash? Use up all of those pretty little scraps of sock yarn with this versatile patchwork sock yarn recipe!
Month: May 2013
Aaron Vanderwerff Named “Inspirational Teacher of the Year”
Oakland’s Lighthouse Community Charter School is turning out some great young makers. If you attended Maker Faire this past week you might have run into Lighthouse students displaying a solar-powered scooter. (It started out as a go kart, but someone stole the chassis) and an EV truck project. The school’s teachers are no slouches either. This week one of the students’ instructors, Aaron Vanderwerff, was named “inspirational teacher of the year”
Sign Up Now for Maker Training Camps
Today, we offer you a new way of learning: Maker Training Camps. Training Camps are collaborative online courses specifically designed to make it easier to learn a new skill or build a specific project. Camps use Google hangouts and communities to make it easy to work with other students and teachers. Camps are generally between one and five weeks in length with a lecture, a project and optional office hours each week.
How-To: Knit Ruffled Summer Top
Make your best little gal a pretty ruffled summer top with this free knitting pattern.
Controlling LEDs with Charlieplexing
MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of “Charlieplexing,” a method for controlling multiple LEDs without the use of multiple microcontroller pins. With charlieplexing you can turn on or off one LED at a time. To light more than one LED at a time, you can scan the LEDs by turning a sequence of them on and off really fast.
DIY 3D Laser Scanner Using Arduino
The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and distance shoots a series of images. With some trigonometry considerations and optic laws it is relatively easy to reconstruct the Zeta dimension, the measurement of the distance between the object and the camera.
Maker Faire: One Maker’s Perspective
A timelapse of one maker’s Maker Faire experience.
