Mini Jacobโs Ladder
This pocket-sized ladder is easy to make for just $20. Youโll be rewarded with a real high-voltage eye-catcher.
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The Make Staff’s 2020 Gift Ideas for Makers
The Make: staff has pulled together a list of their most-used and most-loved items from this past year and are sharing them to help you do your holiday shopping.
A Maker In-vent Calendar To Make Your Holiday Season LED Bright And Merry
Anticipation is everything! Count down the days this December with our make-a-day Maker Invent Calendar. We’ve turned tradition on its head and sent you on a quest to be your own holiday elf…er…maker. Each day, a new DIY project, present, or holiday prop (today’s upcycled book wreath, for example) will appear on the calendar. And […]
Preserving Sculptures With 3D Scanning And 3D Printing
This raggedy old sculpture is something that I love having around. I know it looks like a pile of old tires and rusty metal bits, and not so much like a toad, but I still love it. As you can see, at one point in time it was a fire sculpture. The valves […]
Make:Cast – Ten Years of Open Source Hardware
Ten years ago, a community came together around a definition of open source hardware to be clear about what it means to share designs for physical things, and doing so in a way that allows others to make, modify, distribute or use those things. This definition has been managed by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). In this episode, I talk with Alicia Gibb, Executive Director of OSHWA and board president, Michael Weinberg about the growth of open source hardware, its certification process and the role of open source hardware in the maker response to COVID-19.
Plan C Live: The Civic Response in the UK
“I think one of the amazing things at the time when we had spun up so quickly was pulling together that energy, that drive, that determination to solve this one single problem.”
10 Tips for Converting a 3D Printer to Pellet Extrusion
Make the switch from extruded filament to closed-loop recycled plastic pellets with these helpful tips
