Month: July 2013

Maker Camp Starts Today!

Attention campers and makers everywhere. MAKE and Google+ kick off Maker Camp today with a fun and project filled day of making. In case you haven’t heard, Maker Camp is a six-week virtual summer camp for teens. Week one is “makers in motion” and so this week we’ll be making things that roll, fly, sail. The featured project of the day is a two liter soda bottle boat.

SMD Capacitance Hack

SMD Capacitance Hack

Akiba of Freaklabs, a Tokyo-based open-source electronics kitmaker, needed to add some 0805 surface-mount capacitors to an existing PCB, so he stacked them up! super ghetto bulk capacitance hack. my RF amp is more power hungry than i expected… See the related links below for more of Akiba’s awesome work!