This weeks PDF includes an article by Andrew Argyle with instructions that will take you step by step through the PCB making process. Originally printed in Make: Volume 2, this article has the material lists and extra notes that can’t be found in the video. – PDF Link To see chematic and PCB board designs, […]
Make pal I-Wei Huang, a.k.a. Crabfu, the steambots guru, was interviewed by Bonnie Burton for the Official Star Wars Blog… How do your skills as an animator help when you make these cool creations? Being an animator, you tend to see things in a different way, and can’t help but notice subtle details of how […]
You’ll probably never have the desire or need to download and watch a YouTube video on a text-only console, but doesn’t it make you feel better knowing that it can be done? The trick is to use the AAlib ascii image library as an output device for mplayer, using the -vo parameter: mplayer -vo aa […]
We have some big news! You can now pre-order DIY HALLOWEEN 2007 – from the editors of MAKE and CRAFT. 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that’s made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects – Link.
Joan of Lazy Girl Designs has posted up a tutorial on how to use Clover’s yo-yo maker. You can also print it out as a handy PDF. Link.
Did you know that the University of Rhode Island holds the the largest commercial pattern archive? Called CoPA (Commercial Pattern Archive), the patterns are curated by retired professor Joy S. Emery. COPA just acquired a jackpot with Butterick patterns that go back from 1871 to 2000!! Emery archives the patterns by scanning them into an […]
Jonah writes – This “Drive Tray Guitar” was built by a workshop participant during our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop held at Eyebeam in NYC last weekend. Basically it was built by integrating an old computer’s CD drive into the body of an acoustic guitar and using the “Ejection” mechanism to create a “strumming” function that […]
