As part of our Mechanics theme this month, we’re giving away three signed copies of Dustyn Roberts’ awesome Making Things Move. This book is the perfect introduction to understanding basic machines and mechanisms and how to more intelligently incorporate them into your projects. We’ve been having such a great response to using these giveaways as […]
We were delighted with the massive response we got to our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway. So much so that we decided to up the ante. This week we’re giving away the awesome Getting Started with Arduino Kit V2 from Maker Shed. This kit includes the Getting Started with Arduino book, an Arduino Uno […]
Maker “colin.faulkingham’s” Drawbot entry oPossum5150 used shipping envelope cardstock to create this Drawbot pen holder We’re happy to announce the winners in our Make It Last Build Series Drawbot project. This time, we did a drawing of images from the MAKE Flickr pool (tagged: makeitlast). And the winners are: First Place Prize: colin.faulkingham Second Place […]
We were floored by the number of comments that we got for our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway (377!). Lots of folks had great questions about the Arduino and some of you pitched in with answers. We’ll sift through this content now and use it to create a crowdsourced Arduino FAQ. Thanks to all […]
The Maker Shed is giving away an iPad loaded with Make: The Complete Collection (PDF). It’s super-easy to enter, and no purchase is necessary. Read all the details about how to enter on the Maker Shed’s contest page.
Really impressed by the turnout for the 555 Contest… something like 238 entries! The above videos show three of the submissions. Jeri and I are hard at work thinning the pack to pass on to our hack-master judges by next week. And don’t worry, even if you didn’t make the first cut, you’ll still be […]
Yesterday, we introduced the Syntheos grblShield, an Arduino Shield, created by MAKE contributors Riley Porter and Alden Hart, that allows you to control three stepper motors and run grbl, the motion-control language, for CNC operation. To show the grblShield in action (two motors of it anyway), Riley decided to try his hand at our Drawbot […]
