This is one of those projects that fell together perfectly. Recently I traveled around Europe with some friends on a tour of hacker spaces and one of the hacker spaces that we visited was Das Labor (http://das-labor.org). Two of the hackers there, Peter and Martin, have been making these amazing LED cubes that were 5x5x5 […]
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | itunes | blip | youtube This weekend, Action Girl and I show you how to make a Rubik’s Cube out of dice, magnets and epoxy. Interestingly enough, the first Rubik’s cube ever was made with magnets! We found inspiration in gfixler’s and burzvingion’s instructables. The hardest part that we […]
You can get most everything you need for this project by checking out gfixler’s and burzvingion’s instructables posts, but in this weeks pdf, you can see how we made our jig, check out our trick for installing the magnets in the corner blocks, and learn Action Girls strategy to speedcubing! PDF Link
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | itunes | blip | youtube This weekend, learn how to put your projects on a breadboard! Start off by going to the Sparkfun site and go through their tutorial about getting power set up on your board. – Link Then get out Make: Volume 10 (Note: I mistakenly called […]
Breadboarding is a great way to get started in electronics. You don’t need to solder and you can put things in and take things out really easily. The 555 is a beautiful thing. Download this pdf, read it, and make this project and learn more about this cute little 8 legged bit of silicon! PDF […]
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | itunes | blip | youtube I had the chance to hang out with FBZ for a bit in Berlin and we made this video for you to learn how to knit! So break out some yarn, string, cassette tape, dental floss, cat5 cable or fiber optics and knit it […]
This week’s pdf comes to you from Shannon Okey of knitgrrl.com. (Update: The Knitgrrl site is down this morning due to outages at Dreamhost. Please check back at her site later today.) She stepped up and made a pdf with the parts of her book, Knitgrrl2, that have the diagrams that step you through casting […]
