Adjustable Garage Storage Wall
Need garage organization inspiration? Check out this adjustable storage wall!
Month: January 2013
Build Google’s Book Scanner
While the DIY Book Scanner project shows you how to build your own scanner, Google’s vacuum-assisted Linear Book Scanner is also an option. Google has patented the design but is offering it online as a free license. [via core77]
Transforming Cardboard Anime Character
Blogger Zeon Santos over at Neatorama shared this amazing cardboard anime sculpture that actually transforms.
Light Painting with a Thermal Flashlight
Impressed with the Public Laboratory’s Thermal Flashlight prototype, maker Max Justicz whipped together a nice self-contained version using an infrared thermometer, some RGB LEDs, and an Arduino housed inside a commercial flashlight enclosure to perform a little DIY thermal imaging.
Best of 2012: Toolsday
We started doing tool-review-Tuesdays—inevitably compounded to “Toolsdays” in short order—in early 2011, and 2012 has been the column’s first full calendar year. The reviews are written on a volunteer basis by MAKE staff and friends. Sometimes a manufacturer or retailer provides a review unit, but as often as not, the reviewer simply opens his or her toolbox, picks out a personal favorite, and serenades it. Usually the tool is of modern manufacture and is available for retail sale, but sometimes we write about old tools, eBay finds, and family heirlooms. These “tool stories” usually add a human interest element to the sometimes dry approach common in product reviews, and have been some of my personal favorite Toolsday columns from 2012.
It’s a New Year. What Will You Make of It?
It’s easy to forget what got us here in the first place: a love of creativity, making things, and play. Making and the maker movement is now seen as important, an engine of innovation and change. And we think that’s true. But it’s also fun.
Mobile Factory Makes Electronic Embroidery
A recent article in The New York Times describes a work by Amor Muniz, called Maquila R4, which consists of a mobile factory she transports by bicycle to temporarily employ people to work on electronic embroidery pieces.