Seasons Greetings From MAKE
MAKE’s ode the year that was and a look ahead to the one to come.
Month: December 2013
It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like 3DPmas: Show Us Your Christmas Morning Prints
Christmas Comes Early For The MAKE 3DP Team For the past two years our Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing has used “Christmas Morning” print tests to gauge how well a desktop machine prints right out of the box. As our “How We Tested” article states: In order to make sure that the printers were […]
Making Connections With Conductive Tape: A Primer
Conductive tape should be sold right alongside duct tape in craft stores. It is great stuff. How amazing that it acts like a wire and carries electricity between a battery and components like LEDs, buzzers, and motors. And you can take it anywhere. I mean anywhere. Planes, trains, automobiles, Maker Faires, libraries, other people’s living rooms. Can’t say that about a soldering iron.
How-To: Make Pom Poms with a Fork
As if forks weren’t already useful enough, now you can use them to make cute little pom poms with this handy tutorial from Small Good Things.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
Face Detection in 10 Minutes
Jason Kridner, a software architecture manager at TI and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, shows how to program a BeagleBone to run Open-CV and face-detection algorithms.
Eleventh Hour Gifts in the Maker Shed!
If you forgot to pick up a gift for Suzy or Tommy, don’t worry! There are still some great gifts in the Maker Shed to brighten their Christmas mornings. Grab a printable Maker Shed Gift Certificate, available in any amount of your choosing.
