Jody Farr’s garage status monitor, his very first ‘real’ project, was borne out of necessity: In the middle of July, I was wondering why the air conditioner in the house wasn’t keeping up. I must have spent hours looking things over, making sure the compressor was working, replacing filters, blah blah blah. After a while, […]
Really the “plant hanger” thing is just an easy example. The cool bit here is the trick for making fixed three- and four-way joints in ball chain using the commonly-known “straight” couplings, plus one you may not already know about. You can use it to make snap-together ball-chain nets or meshes of any size or shape, for any reason you might want to.
Wayne and Layne, the shingle put up by Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler, has opened up an online store. If you haven’t heard of the guys, they are rising stars in the DIY community with two excellent projects released so far. Their Tactile Metronome Kit and Video Game Shield Kit were hits at the Bay […]
MAKE subscriber George wrote in to share his RGB light saber, an open source project that mounts a controllable LED array in a light saber hilt, letting you change its color with a potentiometer.
Dearest readers, gaming enthusiasts, and dice aficionados, I present to you a roundup of our favorite dice projects here on Make: Online! Photo above by PT from the NYC Toy Fair 2008. Polycube Puzzles from Dice Letterpress prints using dice as “type” LED Dice kit in the Maker Shed How-To: D12 and D20 Dice Purses […]
Mangetout shows us how to transform a soda/drink can into a cool embossed box. One of his pro tips is to sand the can before you open it and drink the contents.
Neat, here’s how to turn a security camera dummy into a lamp.
