There’s a new TechShop opening this fall: We are proud to announce the opening of TechShop Austin-Round Rock, located in La Fontera in Round Rock, Texas! TechShop Austin-Round Rock is located at 120 Sundance Parkway, Suite 350, Round Rock, Texas, in the Lowe’s and Sam’s Club shopping center. The building is 17,000 square feet and […]
Tuesday is Toolsday here at MAKE, and to celebrate, we’re having a Hangout on Air. Join us 6pm PDT to talk about some of your favorite tools and to show off your workspace.
It’s the first day of school for children here in Michigan, so I’ve seen lots of cute photos, many featuring handmade clothing or accessories, from friends as they sent their kids off to their new classrooms. Amy of This Heart of Mine created this sweet (literally) bag of frosted cookie letters, for Design Mom, to […]
Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of Craft Sanity made a whole collection of handmade goodies for her daughters to take on their first day of school today. Did you make any projects for your students on their first day of school?
I tend to do my fine-detail circuit work inside the house on my electronics workbench, and rougher work in my garage workshop. I have vises installed in both places, each chosen to suit the work: in the house I use a PanaVise Jr. Mini-Vise mounted on a tray base; in the garage it’s a heftier swivel vise bolted to my workbench. Now, PanaVise has turned things upside down by offering this new Vise Buddy Jr., which is a small, precision vise head that you can quickly clamp into your bigger bench vise.
Chris at PyroElectro built this simple Arduin-controlled IR pair that can be used to measure the RPMs of a CPU fan. A tachometer is a useful tool for counting the RPM (rotations per minute) of a wheel or basically anything that spins. The easiest way to build a tachometer is using a transmitter and receiver. […]
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.
This week’s question: What is an example of a project you have worked on where you’ve had to learn a new skill or done something outside your comfort zone?
