V for Victory & victory garden kits
Lovely old sign (or perhaps new) V for Victory via Eyebeam. More: Victory garden kits.
gift guides
A conversation with Mitch Altman
During a quiet moment on Sunday afternoon at Maker Faire Austin 2008, I had a nice conversation with Mitch Altman. At the end of a very busy weekend, he was pretty beat, but I was struck with what a wonderful and peaceful guy Mitch is. Mitch Altman creates kits that inspire people to make things. […]
Game of Life kit is suitable for framing…
Funnypolynomial framed up the Game of Life kit, nice! via Ladyada. I’ve been fascinated by Life since I first read of it in Scientific American, many years ago (October 1970!). The Maker Shed store had a couple of sales so I bought a total of 6 Game of Life boards. I assembled them as a […]
Build: Mini-Theremin in under a minute
Assembly of the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit @ warp-speed – complete with error correction! Mini-Theremin
HOW TO – Make the “Brain machine”
Best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places, Mitch Altman is interested in any technology that gives people more choices for improving their lives. You don’t have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty to sleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, […]
Building the Gakken Cup Phonograph Kit
Gakken’s New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit is a cylinder recorder that uses a needle to cut sound waves onto plastic cups. This kit lets you relive the excitement of Thomas Edison as he successfully recorded and played back sound for the first time on a similar cylinder recording system back in 1877. Thomas Edison first […]
MAKE 2008 gift guide from MAKE volume 16 & “The value of a good hands on project”
Here’s the MAKE 2008 gift guide from MAKE volume 16 (PDF). If you have your printed copy of MAKE it’s on page 18, a pull out, and in the digital edition it’s at the end. I also wanted to post up a great article by our associate publisher Dan Woods called “The value of a […]