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CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101

Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It’s a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I’ll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. You […]

Make: television Episode 3

Make: television Season One has come and gone. But in case you missed it, we’ll be rolling out the ten episodes of our premiere season again. Episode Three, take two, coming at you: Enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, a leading Steampunk Maker, who turns modern technology into Victorian works of art. In […]

Weekend Project: The Powerfake

Take an old outdated PS/2 ball mouse and turn it into a handy multimedia controller. Thanks go to Daniel Walker for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Powerfake MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Powerfake article in MAKE, Volume 17 “The Powerfake” and you can see […]

Make: television Episode 2

Make: television Season One has come and gone. But in case you missed it, we’ll be rolling out the ten episodes of our premiere season again. Episode Two, take two, coming at you: Maker Cris Benton takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. In the Maker Workshop John Park builds […]