From advancements in technology and materials, to the development of innovative techniques and ideas, thereโs 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!
For the past few years the holiday season has been made thoroughly amusing by a series of collaborations put on by the youtube channel Kids Invent Stuff. They reach out to these channels and organize a secret santa exchange where you have to make the gift you’re sending to another maker on youtube. This year, […]
We canโt hardly wait for the chip shortage to be over and dev boards to be abundant again, but instead of waiting for somebody to fix the supply chain, weโve gathered a list of near substitutes and potential replacements for your next project. Unsatisfied with back-orders for your favorite Raspberry Pi or Arduino? Use the […]
In Netflix’s revival of the Addams Family for Netflix, they may focus mainly on Wednesday but the rest of the crew doesn’t get completely ignored. One specific family member, a severed hand called “Thing” gets their fair share of screen time. For the show, the character is typically just someone’s hand and some movie magic. […]
Think you could MacGyver your way out of a dangerous situation? ย Welcome to Make:โs MacGyver Challenge โ solve this emergency scenario in a creative way and your solution could be featured in the next issue of Make: magazine! Submit your answer down below by January 7th. Written by MacGyver TV creator Lee David Zlotoff and […]
Mad Season, Cream, Prophets of Rage, the Traveling Wilburys โ what do they have in common? Perhaps itโs that youโve never heard of them, but they are also all supergroups โ successful artists teaming up to create something new and exciting. In the world of LEDs, instead of Layne Staley, Tom Morello, and Tom Petty, […]
Manufacturer: Bernzomatic URL: https://www.bernzomatic.com/Products/Hand-Torches/Instant-On-Off/BZ8360T Price: $75 Like so many of you, I’ve had an old torch head for propane and map tanks laying around workshops for my entire life. It’s the kind of tool you only need occasionally, but there’s no other tool in the shop that does what it does, so it also never goes away. The […]
Like so many of our readers, I use power tools of various sorts pretty much daily. However, I never really thought about the technology in my hands. Iโve recently come to finally trust a cordless driver to do the job, but beyond that, I thought about them as a motor, a switch, and a power […]
