LED “Love Shack” Gingerbread House
This gingerbread house uses one of Jimmie Rogers’ Open Heart kits to turn an otherwise unassuming architectural confection into an LED gingerbread love shack.
DIY Projects
Build a Simple, Sturdy Wooden Table
MAKE engineering intern Nick Raymond can’t get enough of making. When he’s not at the Make: Lab building projects for upcoming issues of MAKE, he’s at his home workshop crafting useful objects like surfboard slip covers, light boxes, and this solid, classic wooden table, which he documented and shared with the community on Make: Projects. […]
Got Drawbot Images?
Don’t forget, entries for the prize drawing in our third Make It Last Build, the Drawbot, is ending tomorrow night at 11:59pm PST. To be eligible for some awesome prizes, all you have to do is load pictures to the MAKE Flickr pool, and tag them “makeitlast.” Unlike our previous judged contests in this series, […]
Open Source Lasercutter Reaches Version 2
Bart from buildlog.net wrote in to share his latest DIY laser cutter design, the 2.X laser. The mechanical parts are all either off-the-shelf or lasercut, and it can be controlled using a number of standard electronics sets. Oh, and did we mention it’s all available with a Creative Commons license? The second generation open source […]
Circuit Skills: LED Matrix, sponsored by Jameco Electronics
Many an experimenter, hacker, tinkerer, & maker have heeded the call of the mighty matrix – and it’s no mystery why. A small army of LEDs elegantly wired in grid formation would be difficult for anyone with an appreciation for electronics hardware to pass up – even after considering the sometimes daunting wiring job that […]
Flexible Joinery
I love this “flexible joinery” by Dag-designlab in Israel. From designboom: ‘Flexible joinery’ is made out of a silicone casting over an inner metal skeleton. Adaptable to a range of unconventional configurations, the pieces provide a joining technique that can be temporary and easily modifiable. They’re like twist ties for furniture!
Collin’s Lab: Monotron Hacking
The Monotron mini analog synthesizer is a simple but sweet-sounding synth that sports basic features that give a nod to us hardware hackers.