The Arduino open-source microcontroller platform can be programmed and equipped to perform a nearly endless list of functions. It’s likely the best all-around centerpiece to a modern electronics project. But one of the tasks Arduino is best used for is straight-up fun – the open design means there’s an Arduino board suitable for almost any […]
Photography courtesy of Terry A. Perdue – The Soul of an old heathkit by Dale Dougherty. Howard Nurse built hundreds of Heathkits, starting in the 1950s with a ham radio transmitter kit, the DX-40. As a kid, he loved to go to sleep reading the catalog, which was a window into the world of electronics […]
Adafruit Industries just released a new kit version of the Uzebox open-source gaming console – After many months of looking at NTSC waveforms on my scope (go video-sync trigger!) I have finished the Fuzebox, a fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console (based on the Uzebox I posted about a while back). It is based almost […]
Anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age, or better!
Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes | mov | 3g2 I made this scorpion toy with a Twitchie Robot Kit. I’m really afraid of scorpions where I live in Arizona, so I thought a friendly toy would help me get used to them. I made his plush body […]
Just seven weeks until MAKE: television premieres. In the meantime, here’s one of our viewer-submitted Maker Channel videos. Ted and Zack make an instant French fry machine called the Uber Tuber. If you want to tell us about something you make, go to www.makerchannel.org Make:’s Public Television premiere is in January 2009. Want to know […]
Siemprelaluna posted this fast-action build and installation of a MIDI2600 kit complete with soundtrack made with a Synthcart on the Atari console. [via Matrixsynth] More: Atari 2600 MIDI demo
