Home

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.

MakePhilly – March (photos)

MakePhilly – March (photos)

Cyenobite has some great photos from this week’s MAKE: Philly! The March meeting of Makephilly.com The topics included mousebots, a brazing demonstration, and a maker challenge to build a motorized ski lift that had to transport to “cork heads” up an 18″ incline. In addition to various makers showing off their creations. MakePhilly March 07 […]

Sensory gaming

Sensory gaming

Crunchgear has a really interesting write up of Emotiv’s sensory gaming rig you wear on your head – The prototype device looks sort of like a smaller version of Professor X’s Cerebro mutant locator thing. It’s a headset with three separate arms than clasp around your head. Each arm contains myriad sensors that detect signals […]

Twitter for Make/Craft/Hacks

Twitter for Make/Craft/Hacks

Some people are obsessed with twitter these days. We’re not endorsing it, but if you’re a twitterer and you want to stay up to date with the makezine blog, the craftzine blog, and the hackszine blog, then you can follow them on twitter and get updates about posts while mobile or on im. Whenever a […]

DIY bike light

DIY bike light

Kevin writes – This page describes the construction of a bike light comprising three 3W Luxeon LEDs. This project had three main goals. 1.) Make a light suitable for use in 24-hour mountain bike racing. 2.) Use readily available material as much as possible. 3.) Offer the details to the community and invite any and […]