How-To: Knit Ruffled Summer Top
Make your best little gal a pretty ruffled summer top with this free knitting pattern.
Year: 2013
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.
Tyler’s Maker Faire Robot Tattoo
At Maker Faire Bay Area last weekend, a group of editors were talking about the “maker tattoos” feature we’re working on for MAKE Volume 35, and someone wondered aloud when we might see the first iconic Maker Faire robot tattoo. Then, two days later, lo and behold, Instagram user @maiden_merica posted a pic of his […]
How-To: Binding a Quilt
Learn tips and tricks for beautiful quilt finishing with this quilt binding tutorial from Lily Patch Quilts.
5 Million LEGO Brick Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter
Thirty-two builders took 5.3m LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to assemble this X-wing starfighter, unveiled yesterday in NYC’s Times Square. It will be on view there for a few more days before heading to California for permanent install at LEGOLAND.