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Weekend Project: The Powerfake

Take an old outdated PS/2 ball mouse and turn it into a handy multimedia controller. Thanks go to Daniel Walker for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Powerfake MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Powerfake article in MAKE, Volume 17 “The Powerfake” and you can see […]

More on building Sun Photometers

More on building Sun Photometers

[pic of David Brooks’ photometer kit] In following up on his discussion, on the last episode on Make: Talk, of building Sun Photometers and measuring total column water vapor, Forrest Mims sent me the following info: The instrument that measures total column water vapor is a sun photometer with LEDs that detect at 940 nm […]

Make: television Episode 2

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 Two, take two, coming at you: Maker Cris Benton takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. In the Maker Workshop John Park builds […]