The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
If you’re in the NY area, this might be something to check out at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden – as MAKE 07 ships, we’ll have a lot of “Backyard Biology” posts, articles and events – “The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is one of the world’s most remarkable plants. Native to tropical forests in Sumatra, it […]
Joe writes – “Here are some pictures from Black Hat and DEFCON that I just put up. The DEFCON badge hacking contest was a complete success and people ended up making some pretty cool things (with only 36 hours to do so). The Black Hat Briefings & DEFCON 14, 2006 – Link. DEFCON 14 Badge […]
Peter writes “Homebrewers are going beyond standalone musical applications on game consoles to hacking next-gen mobile systems into full-featured MIDI/music controllers, wireless or wired. We’re watching the development of a new wireless Sony PSP control solution for MIDI, mousing, and even playing Ableton Live; a tracker and MIDI interface for the GP32; and a hacked […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Cmpalmer writes – “Our bedroom TV went out a few months ago and the bedroom wasn’t laid out well to use our video projector, so I built a rear projection TV mounted to the foot of our four poster bed…” – Photos & Link.
Bill writes “Here’s a build log of our Inflatable Moai project. We converted two Halloween lawn decorations into 9′ Moai for the Tiki Invasion show this past weekend @ the Mission Tiki Drive-in in Montclair, CA.” – Link. Wikipedia – Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues […]
If you’re in San Jose today – check this out “DIY Urban Challenge is a workshop in which participants “hack” the streets of San Jose, creating objects which interject themselves into the urban fabric, to stimulate new experiences of the city. During a two day workshop participants will traverse San Jose detailing points of intersection […]
Ok Makers, we feature a lot of Altoids tin projects here on MAKE – and now you have a chance to win an unreleased new product from Altoids, if you happen to win, we’d like to do a project with the tin after the mints are consumed, heck we’ll auction the project off and give […]
