What do you use to light small objects you’re trying to photograph? MAKE contributing editor and author of the bestselling Make: Electronics book Charles Platt found that electronic flash is overkill and photo lights are too bulky and hot, so he built an array of miniature LED photo lights and shared the how-to with us in MAKE Volume 34.
Capreek over on Curbly is my aesthetic spirit animal and her latest DIY is no exception. I am loving her modern dip-dyed dog leashes that are begging to be attached to my mutts. I am not too proud to make a matching necklace for myself btws. Maybe I should be, but I’m just not.
We’ve had an influx of new arrivals in the Maker Shed lately and rather than tell you about them one blog post at a time, we thought it’d be more fun to post several at once!
Bluetooth has never had a reputation as being easy to work with, but with the arrival of the Bluetooth LE standard, all that has changed. We look at two of the new Arduino-compatible micro-controller boards on Kickstarter with Bluetooth LE built-in.
Collin Cunningham explains what diodes are all about, describing the history of the component, the various types, and even touches on creating your own. [M]aking this installment of the series taught me quite a few things. Prior to reading up on the diode, I wasn’t aware how closely its development was tied to the birth […]
Instructable user OddBot built this Arduino-controlled Tic-Tac-Toe robot built out of K’Nex (actually, he used LOZ, a K’Nex ripoff product) using ping pong balls. He controls the robot with a universal TV remote and an IR receiver, and you can actually configure the game with the remote, setting up (for instance) a larger board like […]
Are 3D printers a continuation of developments in a modern technology that started over 500 years ago with Gutenberg? Printers use a variety of materials and processes, and now you can print in 3D. Or will we look back one day and think that these fabricators represent the beginning of something entirely new, and we might consider 3D printer such as MakerBot the start, not the end, and that’s there’s generation of 3D machines we haven’t seen yet. Maybe we should have been calling them something other than printers, a better name such as “fabbers.”
