Kickstarted: Make it Yourself?
After your project gets funded on Kickstarter, should you make it yourself or find a manufacturing partner?
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!
Calling All Covert Operators – Build a Bug with Weekend Projects
Build a wireless “bug” by combining an amplified listener with a short-range FM transmitter. Hide the circuit in a book or other discreet object.
$3 Mystery Books in the Maker Shed
The Maker Shed has too many books and we need to get them out of the way. Rather than continue tripping over them, throwing them at each other, and using them for broom hockey pucks, we’ve decided to sell them as Mystery Books for just $3.00 a piece. Yes, really.
Maker Faire New York Auditorium Presentations, Illustrated
Slideshow of murals “live illustrated” by ImageThink artists of Maker Faire New York Auditorium presentations by Seth Godin, Jack Hitt, Chris Anderson, Bre Pettis, David Pogue, Stephen Wolfram and more.
Ready, Set, Repeat After Me!
The Repeat After Me: A Mintronics Memory Game project is a throwback to the era of Simon and Pocket Repeat. Even more than 30 years after its initial release, this electronic game remains a hit.
Mint a Menta with Weekend Projects
Sign up to the Weekend Projects newsletter and enter to win a Mintronics: Menta kit.
A Micro Relay at Work
The fundamentals of switching in GIF format! See a 5V micro relay switch from normally-closed to normally-open and back to normally-closed.
