Announcing our new bundles available exclusively in the Maker Shed. This time it’s our Learn to solder bundle. This bundle includes a bunch of great products that will get you on your way to being a soldering pro in no time. Keep an eye out for a lot more great bundles exclusively in the Maker […]
Well, we took the feedback people gave us when we posted news of the Twitter contest, designed to try and grow our Twitter community. Folks complained that our channel was little more than an RSS re-feed of Make: Online postings. So, we decided to kill the auto-feed and have the editors of MAKE and Make: […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool JoeLMutantE lives up to his name with this monster sound & light machine born from two Thingamakit boards and a whole lotta wiring – This is a little MutanT based on the Thingamakit noise-synth. It has trhee diferent led-acles (led tentacles) and a pair of sense-acles (photo-sensor tentacles) that react […]
I spent some time getting acquainted with the Gakken Premium Theremin and was pretty impressed with it, especially considering the relatively low price tag. Unlike most theremins this one runs off battery power, so an armband contact is used in place of an earth-ground reference. The unit sports fine/coarse pitch & volume pots, 1/8″ audio […]
The folks over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs outfitted a Peggy 2 with 2×2 super-pixels consisting of red, green, blue, and white 10mm LEDs. The result is a super low-res, but still extremely cool, programmable LED matrix. Windell also shows how you can put a diffusing plastic over the display to create a continuous-tone animated […]
Our own Maker Shed is having a sale on these excellent little capacitor robot charms handmade by ObviousFront from electronic components salvaged from discarded TVs, VCRs, and computers. Charming, indeed! On a side note, ever wonder what exactly capacitors really do? There is no finer or cooler video online explaining the amazing capacitor than the […]
I love this Hello Kitty bubblegum tin housing a Minty Boost. There’s even extra space to carry two additional AA batteries, for even more boost. And notice the Maker’s Notebook as the backdrop. The builder named it the Minou Boost, after her cat. Minou boost
