Your Vote Counts: Help Decide the Winners of the #PSoCMaker Challenge.
Help one lucky maker win a trip of a lifetime — your votes could push one project to the top.
Flashback: Make Earrings from Electrical Parts
By Brookelynn Morris I love to go to the electronics store. The one in my neighborhood is called HSC, and it’s a warehouse of random parts and pieces. They have entire aisles dedicated just to switches, another just for attachments, and an entire room of wire. I have been known to wander the store for […]
Spring Beauty: Make Temporary Tattoos with Dried Flowers
Temporary tattoos aren’t just for kids anymore—these days, everyone is getting in on the fun! So, if you’re ready for a decidedly grownup twist on removable body art, you’re going to love using real dried flowers to make your own gorgeous temporary tattoos. When I saw gorgeous photos of dried flower “tattoos” during a recent […]
Video Walkthrough: Automatic Garden Watering and Data Logging with Arduino
Many of us have tried to plant a garden in one form or another. A good percentage of those people — including myself at times — end up killing their plants due to over or under-watering. Civil engineer Grady Hillhouse, however, decided to take complete control of his garden with a custom Arduino-based watering system. […]
Beats Into Bots: GlueMotor Drives PWM Servos with Smartphone Audio
One of my favorite aspects of editing projects at Make: is seeing how other people approach technology. It’s truly energizing to see someone use a basic component in a way you’d never think of doing yourself. Such an experience is exactly what happened when I first saw Kazu Terasaki’s GlueMotor — a method of controlling […]
NASA Approves Kicksat’s Tiny DIY Satellites for Second Attempt
With the recent announcement that the replacement Kicksat has been awarded a launch slot by NASA I sat down and talked to Zac Manchester about the history behind the Kicksat project, and the upcoming launch.
See Your Insides Animated Via Kinect with Your Anatomy
You see yourself mirrored on a screen. Unlike a mirror, as you move closer your internal anatomy seems to be revealed, layer by layer. You can see your animated skeleton, muscles, and internal organs move as you move. Is this a new high tech X-Ray machine? Well no, but it’s still pretty cool. Diana Salles, […]