Just wanted to make sure that everybody knows that we’ve started publishing the monthly Make: Newsletter again. The new version will have some original columns, exclusive features, special deals on subscriptions and Maker Shed products, and provide a bit of a behind the scenes look at Maker Media. One of the new columns introduced in […]
The paint has dried, the floor’s been swept of construction debris, and all the merchandise is now in place in the Maker Shed’s new Science Room section, their companion to our new Make: Science Room. To celebrate this accomplishment (think: ordering, receiving, warehousing, and merchandising hundreds of chemicals and lots of things made out of glass!), they’re holding a massive Grand Opening Sale.
The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest are giving away microchips! To score some, go here, register, then choose the product line and device family you’re interested in and click on the orange icons to order free samples. From their press release:
Hey Makers in the United States, UK, Germany, France and Italy… We have the exclusive on some great news from Microchip! Beginning Friday, October 2, you will be able to get free microcontroller, analog and memory samples from http://www.microchip.com/samples/. That’s right, you don’t even have to pay for shipping and handling! This is a great opportunity to get some parts for your embedded microcontroller project in the Make: Halloween Contest 2009.
Following closely on the heels of Maker Faire Rhode Island is more big excitement for the littlest state. A better world by design is a conference focused on applying technological solutions to the needs and challenges of society. This year promises to be very exciting, with an all star-speaker line-up including Jan Chipchase of Nokia, […]
Did you know that Make: Online has an electronic newsletter? Well, we used to. We haven’t put an issue out in awhile, but we’re going to start republishing it in October. The newsletter is a great way to get more of an inside look at what’s going on at Maker Media, and to get content […]
Ok, we admit it, we’re tool junkies. Some people have it for gadgets, but who can resist a great-looking (and great-functioning) hand tools? Make: Online and Garrett Wade would like to give you some.
Adafruit’s weekly “Ask an engineer chat” is tonight, 9/26/2009, 10pm ET. Tonight, Phil and Limor will be joined by special guests, the folks from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and MakerBot Industries. They’ll be experimenting with doing live video, chat, and mobile again. “Ask an engineer chat” tonight 9/26/2009 – 10pm ET with special guests EMSL […]
