Make a mellotron out of walkmans – Weekend Projects Podcast
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The Maker File: Robodock 2007
Dale just put together some stills and audio from Robodock 2007. The 10th Robodock Arts & Technology Festival took place recently in Amsterdam. Featuring hundreds of artists either inside an old shipbuilding warehouse or outside on the docks of North Amsterdam, Robodock offered a spellbinding mix of mechanical marvels coupled with performance art. View it […]
Designing automata kit & cabaret mechanical movement
Some newer-ish stuff @ the Maker store — The Designing Automata Kit is great value and fantastic quality. No glue or tools are required, and you will learn about simple mechanics using cams and a crank slider mechanism. Many different designs can be made, and the kit used over and over again. Produced in Thailand […]
Intro to the Arduino – Weekend Project Podcast
mp4 | hd-appletv | youtube | blip | itunes | pdf Joe Grand and Bre Pettis have joined forces for another Awesome Electronics Workshop to introduce you to the Arrr-duino! In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of programming and setting up your arduino. Don’t have one yet? You can get them in the Make: […]
Intro to the Arduino – Weekend Project PDFcast
This week, Joe Grand and Bre Pettis bring you another Awesome Electronics Workshop! This time you’ll learn about the open-source microcontroller board, the Arduino, ahem, the ARRR-duino. Make sure to download the PDF to see the schematic! – PDF Link You can get an Arduino board in the Makezine store at or you can find […]
Make a Foxhole Radio – Weekend Project PDFcast
The first time I tried this, it didn’t work. It was frustrating, but I just went through my materials, blued the razor blade and it worked. The second time I tried to get it to work, I couldn’t get a station, I just got buzz. I played with everything and finally figured out that the […]
Make a Foxhole Radio – Weekend Project Podcast
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | youtube | blip | itunes | pdf coming soon During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You […]
