How-To: Faux Succulents from Pistachio Shells
Pick up some pistachios and start saving those shells! Make these lovely faux succulents [via Addicted 2 Decorating].
DIY Smart Phone Mittens
You wouldn’t be long getting frostbit digits trying to text without these smart phone mittens from Becky Stern over at adafruit!
How-To: Northern Lights Capelet
Whenever your shoulders need an extra layer cozy warmth on particularly cold days, this lovely northern lights capelet knitting pattern will do the trick quite nicely!
How-To: Sharpen Your Scissors
Are your favorite scissors getting dull? Give inexpensive scissors a new lease on life with a sheet of sandpaper and this scissors sharpening tutorial!
How I Made My $250 Robotic Arm
Since an accident with a hydraulic press 12 years ago, I wear a myoprosthesis — an electrical hand that I can control by muscle sensors. I tried them all, but even $50,000 models were lacking. But after a chance encounter at a local hackerspace in France, I decided to 3D print my own prosthetic.
ATtiny24 Programming Adapter
It’s really easy to program AVR microcontroller chips — but some of them don’t fit the standard Atmel programmer. You need an adapter to connect the Atmel ISPMKII programmer to an ATtiny24 microcontroller Dual Inline Package (DIP) chip — and you can easily make this adapter with just a few components. Here’s how.
Launching the Latest Issue of Make: Magazine with a Bright and Shining Wearables Meetup
The Make: staff celebrated the release of our latest issue, Make: Volume 43 last night at our Wearable Electronics Meetup. Located in the Maker Media Lab which is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, we frolicked amongst tables full of tech. 3D printers hummed while people compared and shared their various wearable […]
