Bill Gurstelle is a Contributing Editor for MAKE magazine. His most recent book is entitled Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. You can follow Bill on his danger-quest at twitter.com/wmgurst. He is a guest Make: Online author for the month of August. I love the way movies and television […]
Did you know about our daily tips service, called make_tips? It’s a Twitter account that will send you a tip every day from us here at MAKE (we have one for CRAFT, too), so you can either follow us there or check out the tip each day in the site sidebar. We publish tip submissions, […]
Katrin of Sew-Mad shares how she made this charming fabric-covered button bracelet. Do you want to know what’s best about it? Each fabric on each button reminds me of something I’ve sewn. Either for myself or for a lovely person. If you need to read her post in English, simply click the “view this in […]
Ubiq_01 points out this vid demonstrating the use of a wiimote over iPhone’s bluetooth connections – The video first shows the iPhone’s AirPlane mode activated before starting an OpenGL-ES Demo. In the demo, the orientation of the virtual WiiMote is controlled by a physical WiiMote over a Bluetooth connection. For this demo, the portable Bluetooth […]
Anonymous reader points out this squeezebox gone digital, incorporating a 16-button monome pad – the Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. It was made by Espen Sommer Eide 2009 and demonstrated in this concert at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway. Seems like […]
The prototype iPhone payment system Square, currently in testing at a trendy clothing store in NYC, has been generating a lot of buzz for the past couple of days. What caught my attention was its use of the mini jack as a communication port.
MAKE Flickr pool member Jeff M built this shop workbench using the instructions from Weekend Projects. In fact, it was our first Weekend Projects podcast (sniff, sniff), from July 7, 2006. Ah, that was a simpler time… Weekend Projects – Make a Workbench Workbench
