MAKE Asks: Roadside Hacks
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: June 2013
Component of the Month: LEDs and Diodes
We kick off June with an excerpt from Syuzi Pakhchyan’s excellent resource for wearable tech, Fashioning Technology. Want to learn more about LEDs and diodes? We’ll be covering them all this month.
Christian Ristow’s Hand of Man a Hands Down Favorite At Maker Faire
Christian Ristow’s 26-ton mechanical hand and forearm made an appearance at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 and MAKE Senior Editor Goli Mohammadi was there to experience the Hand of Man firsthand.
How-To: Fix a Zipper
Instructables user marcellahella posted this handy tutorial illustrating a simple way to fix a troublesome zipper!
How-To: Chalkboard Cloud Mobile
Chalkboard decor takes an unexpected—and pretty darn adorable—twist with this chalkboard cloud mobile tutorial!
The ITP Laser Cutter
Yesterday this year’s ITP Summer Camp kicked off with a series of how to introductions, basic “Hello World” courses, giving introductions to soldering, Arduino, Processing, and how to use their laser cutter. An Epilog Mini 24 — a 50 Watt desktop laser cutter.
Making Makerspaces: Creating a Business Model
This is the second in a series of posts called Making Makerspaces, a distillation of the information gathered for a series of How to Make a Makerspace workshops produced by Artisan’s Asylum and MAKE. These posts will appear on a more-or-less weekly basis, and will focus on mission-critical topics related to founding and running creative manufacturing space. Today, we’ll be discussing common types of expenses and income that makerspaces around the world experience on a regular basis in order to help you create a business model for a space of your own. In the process of identifying these expenses and income, we’ll review examples from several well-established spaces across the U.S. for reference.