Make a mysterious electronic switch that only you know how to light up!
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Thanks to Jeff Tregre for the project: http://www.BuildingUltimateModels.com
To celebrate this weekend’s World Maker Faire NY, we’ve picked several of our Make: Books for a special ebook deal. Ebooks sold through oreilly.com are DRM-free. You get free lifetime access, free updates, and whenever possible, multiple file formats. Use discount code DDMFB in the shopping cart.
During Maker Faire Detroit, I had the chance to meet Jeannine Gruska from the Purl St. Scarf Project. Jeannine used her Maker Faire experience to create a 30-foot knitted scarf for the large Thomas Edison statue inside Greenfield Village. I’m happy to report that the scarf has been finished and Mr. Edison tried it on […]
While not a collector of measure, I deeply enjoy seeing like objects grouped together. (Don’t you? It’s like a brain massage!) In any case, I was just turned on to San Francisco illustrator and Rare Device boutique/gallery owner Lisa Congdon‘s Collection A Day blog. Here we get to see a photograph or drawing posted each […]
Thanks to everyone who entered our recent giveaway for the book, P.S. – I Made This… by Erica Domesek. The two winners are Lisa from Brookline, MA and Jill from Fargo, ND. Congratulations!
No doubt this guy in this video made some awful, over-roasted charcoal, but the rig shows promise. I really like the use of the thermos as an insulated chamber. With some tuning of the heat control (thermocouple probe and variac for the coils maybe?) you could probably get this slowed down to a more reasonable six-to-eight minute roast before first crack.
World Maker Faire New York is this weekend, and we’ve put together a full schedule for of awesome demos for both days at the CRAFT booth. Each day this week, we’ll profile one of the folks who will be presenting. Be sure to mark your schedule and head to the CRAFT booth for all the […]
