The latest Instructables TV is out! Use home made devices to go kite ice butt boarding anywhere there is ice, wind and plenty of room, Tim writes – “Your screaming steel blades carve the ice. Your straining kite hurls you along at incredible speeds. You are mere inches above the ice. Or suddenly wiping out […]
Today is the last day to order physical goods from the MAKE store and get them before Christmas, just select Next Day FedEx shipping. If you don’t want to do that, why not send off a gift subscription and/or a gift certificate to that crafty maker you know.
Wil @ Engadget cooked up our MAKE Open source Daisy MP3, he writes – “We got a wiff of MAKE’s Daisy a while back, but now we’ve finally managed to get our hands on one of these open source MP3 player kits. Today we’ll whip out our soldering iron and show you how things shake […]
While Diana Eng and I were in Rhode Island a couple weeks ago for Craftland (See recap here), she gave myself and O’Reilly editors Brian Sawyer and Brian Jepson a tour of her alma mater RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Creativity and innovation seemed to flow through the school and we were lucky to […]
From our MAKE TNT Newsletter, Arwen says, “I’m not a fan of most commercial perfumes (they don’t really smell like anything in particular), and neither, apparently, is Instructables user Rapiertwit. Check out this nice instructable on making solid perfume. It couldn’t be easier–the hard part is deciding which scent to use and who to give […]
Spark Fun Electronics poked at the EPROM on the Wii, fun stuff– “We just couldn’t not do it. We had to see what was on the Wii EEPROM. There’s surprising amount of 8051 instructions actually. How neat! We hot-aired off the EEPROM and soldered it down to our SSOP breakout board. We then hooked up […]
Bazaar Bizarre was in full swing in LA this past Saturday. Mark Fraunfelder (MAKE) and I were there to man the CRAFT table. We had lots of fun that day so be sure to check out all the photos! Swap-O-Rama-Rama was in full swing near us and it was fun to see everyone into making […]
