In concert with the forthcoming robot issue of MAKE, Volume 27, we’ll be covering robots here on the site this month. As you can imagine, over the years, we’ve amassed quite a lot of robot-related material, here on the website, in the magazine, and in Make: Projects. We’ll be repackaging some of the best of that material over the next month and organizing some of it into our Skill Builder series.
Clever food-safe trick to make glow-in-the-blacklight Jell-O that is, nonetheless, edible. At least in theory. I have seen this trick in a couple places, but Instructables user cluracon has the best instructions and photography of the bunch.
With the Minty Boost USB Charger from the Maker Shed, you don’t have to worry about dead batteries in your gadget. Just build the kit, put it in a tin, add two AA batteries and your USB powered gadget will be back in action in no time.
Phil Levchenko, who shared his DIY power supply a couple weeks ago, has a new project: I’ve got a new tool on my workbench – portable fume extractor. It’s 92mm fan that works from 4 AA batteries and has a variable speed. Mobility is a really good thing, especially when you’ve got a tons of […]
Max over at GalaxyTabHacks.com runs through installing Ubuntu on a Galaxy 10.1 alongside Android OS (Honeycomb) in this step-by-step video.
Ten years ago, over a hot 4th of July weekend, a few of us “alpha geeks” were hanging out on Rob Flickenger‘s porch in Sebastopol, CA testing out homebrew microwave antennas when we stumbled upon the fact that you could squeeze about 12db out of an empty Pringles can and some miscellaneous hardware. At the […]
Check out the cream of the crop submitted to the MAKE Flickr pool this week!
