Hi everyone! It’s me, your friendly MAKEcation camp counselor Matt. Have you started your cooler hacking project yet? If not, here are some ideas to help get you started. Be sure to post your own ideas in the comments. We’ll be giving away a Maker’s Notebook and The Best of MAKE or Best of Instructables […]
We haven’t heard too much from Circuit Girl, aka geek superheroine Jeri Ellsworth, in awhile. We’ve been waiting for some new clips from FMCG to show up on YouTube. In the above new segments, Jeri experiments with creating conductive glass using stannous chloride and heat, and with dying rubber parts with Rit dye to get […]
I had a real retro-techno moment seeing this software box from 1986. I remember it well. It’s Broderbund’s The Toy Shop, a collection of papercraft models you could print out and cut n’ fold to create everything from a catapult, to a carousel, to a steam engine (which used a balloon as its power source). […]
Here’s my photoset of Hiroshima and the Peace Park museum, today is the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima… I’ve been there a few times, it’s an amazing city, vibrant, modern – and a reminder that we are the only species that we know of that has developed the means to completely wipe itself […]
And you thought there were a lot of questionable costumes at Comi-Con. [Warning: scantily clad women on the linked page] The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes [Thanks, Katie W!]
This week’s flashback is one of my favorite pieces from the pages of MAKE, appearing in Volume 07 in August of 2006. It’s not so much a project as a call to action. Gever Tulley, founder of Tinkering School, strongly believes in the power of, well, tinkering, and its positive effects on the minds of children.
Ask MAKE is a weekly column where we answer reader questions, like yours. Write them in to becky@makezine.com or drop us a line on Twitter. We can’t wait to tackle your conundrums! This week’s question comes from Kevin: I heard that you can use an LED as a light sensor. How? LEDs are diodes tuned […]
