We asked MAKE illustrator Damien Scogin to create some drawings so that folks could better understand the functioning of the basic robot plant design we’re using in the Micochip/Energizer Make It Last Build Series, Project #2: The Robot Plant. As we’ve said, you don’t have to make yours this way, this is just one idea, […]
The tireless MAKE servicedroids have poured through all of the entries in our Doing More With Less Windows Phone 7 giveaway. In the cold calculations of their binary logic (i.e. we used a random number generator), the winner of the phone is “libertymama.” Congrats! Email sent. Thanks to everyone who participated in the discussion and […]
Here is the second installment of our series of Make: Shorts covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Beth Ferguson, Sachi DeCou and Sol Design Lab. Among other things, they turn lovely vintage gas pumps into solar-powered electronic device […]
One thing many hackerspaces build is a robust entry control system, usually with RFID fobs — sometimes connected to the Internet so you can see who’s in the space or whether a keyholder is present. Well, the hepcats at hackerspaces.org are holding a contest to design the best access control system that spaces can easily […]
For our second project in the Make It Last Build Series, we’re constructing a robotic plant. This week, we’re going to build an extendable stem for our plant from a tape measure, and mount it inside of the flower pot. Combined with the plant brain we built last time, we’re well on our way to […]
Hi Crafters! Our sister site, Make: Online has a cool new contest happening that we wanted to share the news about! Do you have an innovative project that you think is “green” or one you’ve been thinking about starting? That word green gets tossed around a lot. It’s slapped onto everything these days. What constitutes […]
We’ve done a lot of projects on MAKE over the years that use largely recycled or scrounged materials. As we continue our MAKE Green Projects Contest, we thought it’d be fun to feature some of them here. We figured we’d tag some of our own green! Marc de Vinck has done some awesome projects for […]
