They electronically switch and amplify signals by harnessing the unique abilities of semiconductor materials. Their invention has transformed the world of electronics and accelerated our entry into the digital age. Behold – the Transistor! I learned a lot while making this installment of the MAKE presents series. here’s a few of the information resources I […]
I was excited when the Chronulator came out and am still a fan of the kit. But I’ve been somewhat disappointed with what people have done with it. I expected they’d be more hacks to the circuit and lots of seriously-cool cases. Like this one — a gorgeous construction, made of brass curtain parts, a […]
Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It’s a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I’ll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. You […]
Make: television Season One has come and gone. But in case you missed it, we’ll be rolling out the ten episodes of our premiere season again. Episode Three, take two, coming at you: Enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, a leading Steampunk Maker, who turns modern technology into Victorian works of art. In […]
Tim writes in: What are the reasons we see light bulbs made up of lots of small LED’s instead of one large LED? As Collin showed us in his excellent video about the subject, LEDs pass electricity through “dies,” or little chips cut from a larger wafer of semiconductor; there is just a small active […]
Our pals at Adafruit have released kits for their most awesome Tweet-a-Watt, a kit that turns a lonely Kill-a-Watt power meter into a Twittering energy-usage reporter. Now you can tweet your ravenous power hunger to the entire world! The Tweet-a-Watt Starter Kit, with everything you need to create one outlet monitor (minus the Kill-a-Watt unit), […]
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