Quick and Easy Straw Oboe
Craft simple wind instruments from drinking straws and strike up a summertime band.
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A Quick And Easy Way To Automate That LEGO BB8
The folks at Brown dog Gadgets have published this fantastic guide to convert a plain ol’ LEGO BB8 model into something a bit more exciting. The brains inside this project are Crazy Circuits, which happen to interface with Lego quite nicely (you can get a few of their kits in our MakerShed). We absolutely LOVE […]
The 18 Best Maker Faire Videos of 2018
A small panel of judges from Make: editorial and Maker Faire leadership spent some reviewing the 60+ videos produced from the 198 city-facing events in 44 countries that took place this year. Videos were primarily post-event documentation, but some were promo and one was even longer-form, real-time pace. What makes a video stand out?ย Certainly […]
Accounting For Kerf: How Much Material Is Really Removed By Your Cutter?
โHow did I screw up measuring everything by a quarter-inch? I must not be good at this!โ Nope, you just didnโt account forย kerf.
Sony Spresense
Frame everything else you hear about Sonyโs Spresense with this fact: It needs very little power to run. The board is built around the chipset Sony designed to run its smart earbuds. From the start, it needed to be able to run off a battery small enough to tuck behind your ear and forget. Thatโs […]
Raspberry Pi 3, Model A+
Raspberry Pi has been the standard for single board computers. The Pi has the largest community of users, the most project guides written, and the most tested software packages for a cheap computer that fits in the palm of your hand. The new Model A+ occupies a frankly strange place in the current line-up of […]
Bright Ideas: Kari Byron Interviews Debra Ansell
MythBusterย Kari Byron andย โgeek momโ Debra Ansell chat about technology, art, and the magic of being self-taught
