Locksport Talk at Defcon 19 09/07/2011 Schuyler Towne gives a great presentation on non destructive entry. As a bonus, there’s an intro by Jason Scott of...
Hackerspace Happenings: Milkymist Workshop & Mothership HackerMoms 09/06/2011 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
Defusable Alarm Clock is Dy-No-Mite 09/06/2011 Mike Krumpus of Nootropic Design (and creator of the Video Experimenter Shield which is the heart of Matt Richardson’s Enough...
Writing on the Window with Der Kritzler 09/02/2011 Alex Weber of Hamburg created this cool drawbot (Der Kritzler means “the Scribbler”) that lays down ink directly on a...
CNC Drawing Machine 09/02/2011 Aaron Panone of Cambridge, MA, created a CNC art machine equipped with a cool Sharpie-holding jig that keeps the pen...
LED Party Scroller 09/01/2011 Brian, aka Plasma2002 of San Francisco build this LED scroller that displays messages SMSed to a Google Voice number. I’ve...
FabFi: CNCed Wifi Antennae 09/01/2011 FabFi is an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances...
A History of the Hackerspace Movement, Circa 2008 08/31/2011 In 2008, an eternity ago in the hackerspace world, Bre Pettis, Astera Schneeweisz, and Jens Ohlig solicited entries from hackers...
Controlling a Thermal Printer with an Arduino 08/31/2011 Adam Meyer of Bildr created a tutorial on connecting thermal printers to Arduinos: Outputting data can be extremely useful, and...
Toolbox Review: Circuit Sidekick 08/30/2011 My colleague Collin Cunningham has an iPad app called Circuit Sidekick which consists of several tools for assisting electronics aficionados...