More Kinect hacks and answering your engineering questions – tonight 10pm ET
Tonight I’ll be helping Ladyada on her weekly “Ask an Engineer” chat – we’ll discuss more Kinect hacks and answering your engineering questions – tonight 10pm ET!
Month: November 2010
Slippers Roundup
Brrr! It’s getting cold out there and I don’t know about you but my feet usually need to keep warm from my cold hardwood floors. I’ve rounded up here a collection of our previous crafty slipper projects so you can make a pair slippers for yourself or as holiday gifts. These Bunny Hop Slippers above […]
Interactive knitting machine
Untitled Sock Project is an artistic installation developed during November 2010 as part of the Mediamatic Dev Camp in Amsterdam. By blowing into straws visitors contribute to create a knitted sock. Depending on how hard they blow and the straw they blow into, the sock will be knitted faster and the thread will be colored […]
MAKE magazine physical easter egg finally discovered
It took five years, but a reader–specifically Flickr user Tom Arthur–finally figured out the secret feature we designed into the magazine, oh very much definitely on purpose, back in 2005: It’s sized to fit perfectly inside a classic NES case. Tom is now the only reader able to equip the Soldering Iron of 1000 Truths. Congrats! [Thanks, Tom!]
Pipe Wrench Coffee Table
Pipe Wrench Coffee Table by Jonathan Niemuth via NOTCOT. Love this, if I ever start drinking coffee again *and* get room for a coffee table, I’m making one of these.
New in the Maker Shed: Projects Pack for Arduino V2.0
The brand new Projects Pack for Arduino gives you over 100 of the most popular components you’ll need to get you started prototyping your ideas. Our kit features the Arduino UNO, a MakerShield, USB cable, and lots of other useful parts. You’ll quickly learn why tens of thousands of engineers, designers, artists and hobbyists, use […]
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Bikes
Bicycles could quite possibly be the most popular maker vehicles. Here are some bikes and bike accessories for the cycle-friendly folks on your gift list. College bike trunk, DIY on Make: Projects by Frank Yost, from MAKE 23 Growing up, I would often visit my grandparents in Dinkytown, the southeast Minneapolis neighborhood near the University […]