New in the Maker Shed: IR Jammer kit
The IR Jammer kit provides a bit of safe and non-destructive fun with anything that receives IR signals.
Kits
Ganging up your Larson Scanners
You’re likely already familiar with the Larson Scanner kit, created by Evil Mad Scientist Labs and carried in the Maker Shed. Named after Glen A. Larson, the man behind the original Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider TV shows, it’s a microcontrolled 9-LED display that emulates the back and forth panning light patterns used on the […]
Weekend Project: Ultimate Fog Chiller
We decided to release Kip’s latest Weekend Project, on building your own fog chiller, today so that you still have time to bodge one up before this weekend. Happy Halloween! – Gareth This fog chiller creates an eerie layer of fog that floats along the ground. Perfect for spooky haunted houses or displays. Thanks go […]
Weekend Project: Ultimate Fog Chiller (PDF)
This fog chiller creates an eerie layer of fog that floats along the ground. Perfect for spooky haunted houses or displays. Thanks go to Adam Tourkow Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Halloween Special Edition. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do […]
MAKE Volume 24: Space (video)
MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our DIY SPACE issue. Put your own satellite in orbit, launch a stratosphere balloon probe, and analyze galaxies for $20 with an easy spectrograph! We talk to the rocket mavericks reinventing the space industry, and renegade NASA hackers making smartphone robots and Lego satellites. Of course, as usual, […]
MAKE Video audition: Matt Richardson’s Google Reader pedal
We’re holding open auditions for video makers here at MAKE! Here’s Matt Richardson‘s entry, an awesome keyboard hack that lets you control your Google Reader (or any other keyboard-shortcut application) with the press of a foot pedal. He writes: Here’s a how-to video for an easy, but very useful peripheral hack. It’s for creating a […]
Circuit Skills: LED Color Organ
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/circuit_skills_led_color_organ_spon.html
Join Collin as he synchronizes light to sound using the power of analog circuitry. It’s disco-tech!