Month: July 2013

Maker Pro Newsletter #22

Maker Pro Newsletter #22

“You can’t wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them.” From the editors of MAKE magazine, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, and innovators, along with technology and market trends. Please send […]

Rebuilding Old Capacitors

Rebuilding Old Capacitors

Check out this great tutorial by Don Fox over on Make: Projects, describing how to rebuild vintage caps using smaller modern capacitors inside the old housing. When working in an old TV, audio amplifier, or turntable, invariably I will run across capacitors of all types, paper, mica, electrolytic, etc…. Generally when we run into caps […]