Are you sick of overpriced shoes or want some that show off more of your own personality? You can make your own with Mary Wales Loomis’ tutorial. Mary has been making her own shoes for years. From the site, “I have always designed and made clothes, and occasionally hats and bags. One day, I looked […]
If you’re going to take photos of Fireworks for the 4th, here are some handy tips – [via] – Link. Here’s one I took last year (geocoded too).
Here’s how to make PCBs from the Head-Fi forums – Link. Pictured here, our Primer on PCBs… Related: Printed Circuit Boards. Step-by-step instructions for making your own PCBs at home. MAKE 02 – Page 164 (subscriber’s – log in). Lots and lots of PCB articles and how-tos – Link.
Toc writes – “This is how I attatch my Kite Aerial Photography rig to the kite string. It is just a cheap caribiner I picked up at the local hardware store at the cash register. The string at the top is the kite string and the stings at the bottom are the line from the […]
Ben heck has a new prototype NES portable – “This uses a different kind of NES on a chip motherboard and is actually even smaller than my original nPod. It has an easy-to-use sliding battery pack (4 AA’s that last a long time) and clean, simple styling. And lo and behold it has a headphone […]
One year ago iTunes added podcasts, and while it’s not the only way to get the audio and video from MAKE a lot of Makers use it – Apple put together their picks for pioneering podcasts and MAKE is one of them! We do like to try different things, from enhanced podcasts, to video, to […]
Ben’s L.E.D. Marquee – “The design is relatively straight-foreward.One of the 555’s set the rate you wish the individual LED’s to turn on ( and off). I set this at a 50% duty cycle so it looked like the “spelling” of the word looked uniform. The other 555 sets the rate at which the turn […]
