Building a “Brown Sound” Amplifier Inspired by Eddie Van Halen
Shian Storm sought the legendary guitar tone of Eddie Van Halen, and embarked on a years-long journey to design and build an amplifier that could bring it to life.
Maker News
From advancements in technology and materials, to the development of innovative techniques and ideas, there’s always something new on the horizon. As a maker, your success depends on your ability to keep up with all these changes. Let’s take a look at some of the most noteworthy developments that are taking place in making right now!
Plan C Live: Design, Make, Protect — A Survey Of Maker Response In 2020
In 2020, makers responded to the crisis of Covid-19 and produced millions of units of PPE, getting them into the hands those who needed them most. This intensive and extensive effort called on preexisting networks and built new ones. The maker community centralized and distributed designs through open source repositories, prompting innovation and collaboration across […]
Tackle The Worlds Biggest Problems At The Festival of Urgent Reinventions
The Festival of Urgent Reinventions (aka F.O.U.R.) is a free two-day virtual experience streaming live on February 4-5. Part conference, part competition, F.O.U.R. combines talks, workshops, and actionable briefs that tackle the world’s most urgent and systematic issues. Each brief has been thoroughly crafted by four prominent changemakers who focus on health, climate, and poverty […]
This Week In Maker Classes: Playing With Data, Lasers, and MicroBit
MakerCampus is growing quickly and the classes we are lining up are very exciting. We’ve got something for everyone! This week you’ll have opportunities to mash data around in interesting ways, Learn how to make cool stuff on a laser cutter, and explore the capabilities of the Micro:Bit. Playing With Data Explore ways to create […]
Maker (Faire Producer) Spotlight: Elise & Adam Spontarelli
“Join your local makerspace. You’ll grow, and as a result, help others grow.”
Raspberry Pi Announces $4 “Pico” Microcontroller with Custom Chip, Collaborations with Arduino, Adafruit, and Others
Raspberry Pi enters the microcontroller world with its first custom-chip board, and they’re bringing in a number of other companies to use it too.
Open Source Hardware Certifications For December 2020
Happy new year to all! As we know 2020 was a hard year for many of us. We can hope the new year 2021 will be brighter and joyful. In December 2020, we had 211 pieces of certified hardware. 198 of those were from Sparkfun – kudos to them. Sparkfun certified several edge computing development […]