If youโre an avid Batman fan, youโre going to flip for the hottest members of the Bat Gang as miniature crocheted figurines. Yes, you read that right. Louieโs Loops recently introduced a new dynamic to its hat-based crochet business: figurines, all made from yarn, by hand. Louiseโs Loops is primarily a hat-making company run by […]
A makerspace is being organized for Silver Spring, Maryland – a suburb of Washington DC.
AA battery + coil of wire + neodymium magnets = DC Motor!
Our latest project uses an array of parts to build three separate breadboard projects. Follow along as we put Projects in Motion, showing you how to control three different motor types with little more than a few components, wire, and a power source.
Hobbyist electronics projects need robust, reliable power supplies for prototyping and testing. I learned how to build this circuit from the Basic Analog Circuits class at ITP taught by Eric Rosenthal, but took it several steps further in building a solid enclosure and integrating a voltage meter. Now it lives on my desk, ready to power most small projects I’m working on, ranging from 0 – 24 volts and up to two amps. You can learn all about how to make one yourself using this Make: Projects tutorial.
A story about how I discovered microwave rice krispy treats in college.
Don’t want to pack away all those fun colorful Christmas lights? Check out this informative writeup on how to use holiday lights with battery power. It was written primarily for the bulb based lights, but LED strings should work even better than the bulbed ones. Remember that each bulb uses half a watt-hour per hour. […]
