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Join the Make: editorial staff and contributors as we build ‘bots from artistic arms to humanoid heads to four-legged friends!

In Make: Volume 93, we explore the world of humanoid robots! We show you how to use AI and open source to build ‘bots from humanoid heads to four-legged friends. Plus, 17 projects, including a robot arm drawbot. Register now for a chance to chat with our expert panel, as well as to join us for the virtual after-party!

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Grab your copy of Make: magazine Volume 94 today in the Maker Shed:

Make: Volume 93 (PRINT)

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Join the Make: editorial staff & contributors as we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital fabrication tools for your workshop!

In Make: Volume 92, we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital fabrication tools for your workshop, from laser cutters to 3D printers to CNC machines! Plus, over 23 projects, including a DIY handheld CNC router that automatically helps you cut the right path! Register now for a chance to chat with our expert panel.

Subscribe to Make: magazine

Grab your copy of Make: magazine Volume 94 today in the Maker Shed:

Make: Volume 92 (PRINT)

Make: Volume 92 (PDF)

Join Dale Dougherty and Kate Hartman, author of Make: Wearable Electronics, for a discussion on the intersection of tech, fashion, and art!

Dale Dougherty and Make: Wearable Electronics author Kate Hartman welcome you to the amazing world of wearable electronics, where tech and fashion combine to explore art, style, utility, and new forms of human interaction!

Kate is the founding director of Social Body Lab, a creative technology research group based out of OCAD University in Toronto, where she also serves as an associate professor. Make: recently published a new edition of her book, which teaches everything from choosing the right materials for a wearable-electronics project to explaining how components can be combined to create dynamic costumes and couture.

Dale and Kate will explore the wearable-electronics world, including key breakthroughs, creative uses by amateur and professional makers, and how technology—and the applications of technology—have evolved to make wearables an increasingly accessible and intriguing experimental field.

Get your copy of Make: Wearable Electronics, 2nd Edition, in the Maker Shed!

Make: Wearable Electronics (Print)

Make: Wearable Electronics (PDF)

In Make: Volume 91, we make friends — literally! From AI to the classroom, we’ve got the bots! And dev boards, reviewed and compared, by the bushel! Plus, over 38 projects, including an autotuned kazoo! Register now for a chance to chat with our expert panel, as well as to join us for the virtual after-party!

Join Dale Dougherty and Steph Piper, author of Skill Seeker Maker Edition, for a talk on tracking your growth and leveling up your skills!

Join Dale Dougherty and Steph Piper, author of Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition, for a talk on tracking your growth and leveling up your skills. In a world where there are an overwhelming amount of things to do, Maker skill trees are the perfect way for makerspaces and individuals alike to represent and identify maker skills, from learning a new tech skill like 3D printing to traditional handiwork like sewing. What if we could gamify these parts of life and gain experience points for learning or doing something new? Skill Seeker does just that in a choose-your-own-adventure-style goal-setting guidebook.

Video games are famous for skill trees: A mechanism to visually see your progress, calculating your experience points and showing your level, unlocking badges and new abilities. Skill Seeker puts the concept of skill trees into real life. Featuring pathways to leveling up across 15 skill areas, including 3D modeling, crafting, electronics, entrepreneurship, metalworking, robotics, and woodworking.

Use powerful gamification techniques of badging and leveling to your advantage to motivate a new stage of growth in your chosen skill areas. Show off your Life XP (experience) score, a tally of every tile completed across key areas, plus a dashboard of progress for a birds eye view of your skill distribution. Are you more tech-skill focused, or well-balanced? Skill Seeker will identify your makeup, and chart a path toward whatever future you choose!

Steph Piper is a creative technologist and maker, and serves as the library makerspace manager at th University of Southern Queensland. She also runs Maker Queen AU, a small business creating beautiful soldering kits to inspire others to learn electronics skills, as well as the GlowStitch line of machine-sewable LEDs. Steph created the Party Button art installation, a cross walk interface designed to play party music that was featured at Curiocity Festival in Brisbane. She is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

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Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition (Print)

Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition (PDF)

Join Dale Dougherty and a panel of makers from Mexico, including Antonio Quirarte, for an insightful discussion on the culture of learning by doing. Antonio is the Director of Hacadores, the first makerspace in the heart of Mexico City. They have been a leading company in education innovation since 2013 and are dedicated to spreading and promoting the maker movement. They create learning spaces and design courses and workshops that promote Maker Education, stimulating creativity and knowledge in areas such as Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM). 

In Make: Volume 90, we bring characters to life for Halloween, movie making, live shows, and more via the wonder of animatronics! From Evil Dead deer to mechatronic eyes, we show you how to (re-)animate all manner of creepy creatures. Plus, over 33 projects, including using projection mapping to turn your house into a giant animated screen, an EMF audio amplifier to help you explore hidden frequencies, and hacking a monster toy to create a whimsical desktop status light. Register now for a chance to chat with our expert panel, as well as to join us for the virtual after-party!

Those who grew up building crystal radios and then became radio enthusiasts think of radio waves as magical, a kind of hidden universe. Join us for a Fireside Chat with Make: Radio author Fredrik Jansson who will be our guide to exploring the hidden universe of radio waves.  In his book, Make: Radio, he demystifies the world of radio through a dozen hands-on projects, enabling readers to build inexpensive radio circuits such as transmitters and receivers, remote controls, and a working metal detector. Radio concepts are also adapted for the Raspberry Pi Pico, updating classic concepts with contemporary tools for accuracy and power.

Fredrik Jansson enjoys tinkering with electronics and is a licensed radio amateur. He works as a researcher on the physics of clouds at the Delft University of Technology and develops weather models that run on supercomputers. He has a PhD in Physics from Åbo Akedemi University in Finland and lives in Amsterdam.

Join us for a conversation with Bill Hammack, who teaches engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He is also well-known for his EngineerGuy videos on YouTube.  

Bill is the author of “The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Catherdrals to Soda Cans,” which was published in 2023. In his book, Bill shares the details of the powerful, revolutionary and, surprisingly, little known engineering method that has influenced readers lives intimately, deeply, and lastingly. The book features human stories, perception-changing histories of invention, and accessible explanations of technology. These readable, bite-sized stories reveal a panorama of human creativity across millennia and continents, which readers can consume in a single sitting of fifteen or thirty minutes. They hear of technologies invisible to them, yet which profoundly affect their lives. The book argues that engineering is distinct from science — and that in no way is engineering “applied science” because the purpose of the engineering method is to solve problems before we have full scientific understanding. The results of engineering are not the products of science. The scientific method creates knowledge; the engineering method creates solutions. The products of engineers arise from a method, almost a mindset, that is rarely articulated, almost invisible, yet is universal across cultures and throughout history—no society has survived without some form of the engineering method.

Join Dale Dougherty and a panel of makerspace leaders for a conversation about the challenges of running a community-based makerspace. Some makerspaces closed during Covid, while others survived and some even prospered.  We learn more about how these makerspaces are doing, whether their membership has changed and what are some of the priorities and plans for the future. We want to promote the sharing of ideas and lessons learned among the people who lead and operate makerspaces.