Dale Dougherty and Michael Shiloh show us “the heart of Maker Faire.” The stars of the faire are the young people who came and used recycled materials to make new things. You can’t be too young to make things out of recycled materials! If you are a teacher or work with small children, you could […]
The DaVinci Code is all over the place, but I don’t think you actually get to solve a puzzle or decode anything – in MAKE 06 we show you how to read the tracking dots in your color Xerox printer. Xerox and other printer makers put little hidden tracking dots on printed pages – MAKE […]
The Fire Arts Exposition at Monster park in San Francisco was HOT! Tons of homemade fire breathing contraptions and more. The finale was a fire tornado and a huge electricity-meets-fire finish. Here’s a bit about the event and some photos – Link. Related: Participating artists and performers – Link. The Black Rock Arts Foundation – […]
David writes – “Here’s my first attempt at making something with the Lego Mindstorms package: a scanning machine that reads the colors of the bricks that are put into it and that translates those colors into sound.” – Link.
Adrian shows you how to make a pinhole camera from an old Polaroid – “I picked up a Polaroid camera for $1 at a garage sale thinking I could add a pinhole and have a pinholaroid. I didn’t find any good online tutorials, and feeling confident after building my digital pinhole camera, I decided to […]
Ian writes – “The 01//atch is a binary wrist watch with an LED display. Additional features are accessible through a scrolling menu system on its 3×4 LED matrix. Current features include: voltage meter, binary counter, club mode and time display. The watch is fully programmable. Future firmware upgrades will include: stopwatch/timer, alarm, bicycle speedometer/odometer, data […]
Here’s how to upgrade your in-ear headphones using silicon or rubber swimming earplugs – Link.
