Here at MAKE we have decided to transform the Your Comments column into Your Projects. We love hearing what you have to say, but also love seeing what you’re making! These projects from our readers come from the MAKE Google+ Community and beyond.
Mini Eco kills it in the modern geometric game and these sweet faceted gem beads are no exception. I want to make a million of these and wear them in every color.
I’m super excited for this month’s component: the capacitor! It’s an electronic component that stores a small amount of energy in an electrical field. Caps make up a very diverse family of components! As usual, we start off our coverage with an excerpt from Charles Platt’s stellar Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Vol. 1.
I am a big fan of garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores. They are great places to find used parts and materials for your next project. But one problem that I often run into is not being able to test battery powered electronics to see if they work. Because there are so many different combinations of batteries that are used in portable electronics, it isn’t really practical to carry around batteries for testing. One device may need 6 AA’s and another may require 4 D’s. So I came up with this simple pocket-sized variable power supply.
The Raspberry Pi isn’t just a single board any more, there are a growing number of different variants available. Unfortunately they all look rather similar, and sometimes it can be important which board is which. Fortunately there are a number of ways to figure out which board you have.
MAKE kits, books, wearables, as well as Printerbot and Ultimaker 3D printers, and RaspberryPi, Arduino and BeagleBone boards all for sale this weekend at Maker Faire Kansas City 2013.
Welcome back to Weekend Projects! This year we have lined up 20 more beginner-friendly electronics projects that you can begin and build in a weekend. We start off with the TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer, a novel twist on the classic TV-B-Gone kit, that turns an Arduino into a countdown sleep-timer remote.
