Lights… Camera… Make! Tips for Getting Started on YouTube
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This Surprisingly Lifelike Spider Bot Will Look You In The Eye
This project was one of my all time favorites. I saw it circulating around the web 15 years ago when it was new and I was captivated by the motion and design of this little bot. Just watch as it locks on and maintains eye contact with it’s creator, Matt Denton. The interesting thing happening […]
What The Metaverse Means For Makers
The metaverse is officially here, What does it have to do with making? Possibly a lot.
So Many Choices: Our Favorite Makers Weigh in on Their Go-To Dev Boards
Dev boards give makers limitless options for their projects. Some of our high-tech pals share their personal processes to pick a board.
A Chip Is Born: RP2040-Based Boards Go From 0 to 60+ With Impressive Speed
The microcontroller market โ where chips designed for real-time embedded use are placed into development boards typically referred to as “microcontrollers” themselves โ is rarely shaken up. If you want something friendly to beginners, you pick an Arduino with a Microchip ATmega328; if you want connectivity, an Espressif ESP32-based board; for performance, STMicro’s STM32 series. […]
Pi’s The Limit: Eben Upton on Raspberry Piโs Exciting Year โ and Their New Pi Zero 2 W
Raspberry Pi’s CEO talks with Make: about custom silicon, the Pico microcontroller, their new Pi Zero 2 W, and lots more.
Core Memory: Why We Used 60-Year-Old Tech in an Arduino Shield
About ten years ago, we designed and made an Arduino shield implementing โcore memory,โ a technology that was sixty years old even then. Our shield stored 32 individual 1s or 0s using magnetic fields going either clockwise or anticlockwise around 32 tiny doughnuts of magnetisable โferriteโ material. This kind of memory, invented in the 1950s, […]
