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Makers, let’s say you could only have 4-5 pages of important charts, formulas and references – what would they be? Here are a few to get you started… Resistor color code chart Capacitor code chart Key to schematic symbols Simple circuits to build Drill size conversions Screw measuring card Formulas to calculate areas and volumes […]

Irregular Shed writes – “One Epson DMD-206 display – the ones normally used on tills in supermarkets – hacked to be connected to a PC via its serial port, and hooked up to an IBM Thinkpad running Xubuntu Linux (Ubuntu with Xfce – because this is an old laptop). Why? Because I can =) “ […]

Get our latest weekend project video and PDF in one click via iTunes and get it each week automatically. You can watch the video, take it with you, view the PDF and print it out… For this weekend project, we made a Kite Arial Photography Rig (KAP). This was one of those projects that require […]

After an exciting week at HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) and our open source hardware talk we’re back to our regular obsessive coverage of all things in the Maker world – so if you use feed readers, RSS and other web sites to keep up with the latest news, articles and more – add MAKE […]

Ok makers, here’s contest using some really neat looking material – “d3o is a specially engineered material with intelligent molecules that flow with you as you move, but on shock lock together to absorb impact energy. d3o is now offering you the opportunity to come up with new ideas of how to use this smart […]

OK Makers, our “Weekend project” (videos and PDF/plans) is in full swing. Each week we have a fun video of something you can make and build, additionally – we send out a PDF of plans or something else that’s printable. For some projects we provide the Google Sketchup files you can edit and share too. […]