Summers in Kansas City can be brutal; temperatures can top triple digits, compounded with a high humidity that makes the outdoors feel like a sauna. However, this past weekend, while half the country was suffering through blast furnace like weather, it was more like glorious spring in the City of Fountains. Great weather meant a big turnout for the city’s third Mini Maker Faire.
The American Library Association (ALA) is wrapping up its annual conference in Chicago tomorrow. Today was “Maker Monday,” a day that showcased the growing intersection of libraries and the maker movement.
Mini Eco kills it in the modern geometric game and these sweet faceted gem beads are no exception. I want to make a million of these and wear them in every color.
Need some kid-friendly summertime fashion ideas? Make your little lady a lovely wrap dress with a sweet tulip hem!
This past Friday I posted a request that MAKE readers complete a survey to help us understand what users of the now defunct Google Reader will use to read MAKE content. The vast majority of MAKE readers read the MAKE blog RSS feed via Google Reader so to serve those readers as best we can we wanted to know where folks would go. We got a great response. The survey is now closed, but we got some great feedback. Here are some of the highlights.
I’m super excited for this month’s component: the capacitor! It’s an electronic component that stores a small amount of energy in an electrical field. Caps make up a very diverse family of components! As usual, we start off our coverage with an excerpt from Charles Platt’s stellar Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Vol. 1.
I am a big fan of garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores. They are great places to find used parts and materials for your next project. But one problem that I often run into is not being able to test battery powered electronics to see if they work. Because there are so many different combinations of batteries that are used in portable electronics, it isn’t really practical to carry around batteries for testing. One device may need 6 AA’s and another may require 4 D’s. So I came up with this simple pocket-sized variable power supply.
