MAKE Asks: Turning Pro
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
Month: July 2013
How-To: Cotton Candy Lights
After seeing this cloud light tutorial here on CRAFT, Kia from With Lovely was inspired to create this charming Cotton Candy String Lights project.
MAKE Takes off With Maker Hangar
MAKE Magazine and 17-year-old Lucas Weakley have teamed up to bring you Maker Hangar and a 15-episode tutorial series on Google+ that will teach you everything you need to know to build and fly a custom RC plane, the Maker Trainer.
OSH Stencils, a Prototype PCB Stencil Maker
A lot of electronics hackers I know use OSH Park‘s PCB manufacturing service, where you send in your files and for a pittance, they manufacture circuit boards based on your design and mail you the result. Now the same different folks are forming a solder stencil service, OSH Stencils: We were continually burdened by the […]
Made On Earth — Machining the Perfect Controller
Excerpt from the article: Glenn Black is a 25-year-old modern-day Renaissance man. He makes quilts; is into parkour, trials unicycling, horizontal tree climbing (tree-to-tree), and skimboarding; is a capable photographer; and plays cello. The San Mateo, Calif. resident is also a hardware/electrical engineer at Sony PlayStation. And in 2010, he joined TechShop to expand his […]
Made On Earth — High Five
Christian Ristow’s Hand of Man is a 14,000-pound, 26-foot-long hydraulically activated hand and forearm capable of picking up and crushing cars.
Made On Earth — Barrels of Fun
Excerpt from the article: Paso Robles, Calif. artist Michael Weiss makes his Winebots out of recycled California wine barrel rings, hand-bent and welded into humanoid shapes and poses. » BUY OR SUBSCRIBE » GET THE DIGITAL EDITION