Looking to build a motorized POV display, UncleBone made use of a certain rotary mechanism he already had on hand – Seeing so many persistence of vision ideas on the web was too tempting not to try one. After considering several different motors to drive a display, a ceiling fan seemed to run at just […]
In the spirit of our “Teach Your Family to Solder” week, the flashback I’m offering up this week is from the pages of our sister publication, CRAFT. Brookelynn Morris’ LED Hula Hoop project from CRAFT Volume 06 is a super fun project to practice your mad soldering skillz. It’s fully suitable for peeps who have […]
MAKE subscriber John Honniball points out this interesting take on the proto shield design. o0mouse0o’s recipe for a “Large Prototyping Shield” consists mainly of breadboard – plus a few headers, and some stripboard. Having recently become an Arduino fan I want to be able to have several projects but save the expense of buying more […]
I love to solder. I’ve found it to be a surprisingly relaxing and very rewarding process that opens up a world of practical and creative abilities. But before I knew the basic tips & tricks of the craft, soldering was something I only did out of pure necessity (and often with a good deal of […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Bryan “linux-works” Levin built this Arduino compatible LCD backpack – all the wiring needed to connect the LCD, the IR input module, power, lcd contrast, pwm-based dimming and a 6pin FTDI style usb serial header for upload of new firmware. the IR module is in silver (left) and was a […]
The MAKEcation learn to solder bundle is a fun collection of all things blinky. All the kits are easy to solder and each one makes a fun little blinky piece of hardware. The bundle also includes our Maker’s Notebook and MAKE Volume 01, which features a great learn to solder tutorial. Have fun this summer, […]
I love a good mystery. So does Wired Geekdad blogger and friend of MAKE, John Baichtal. In his words: A couple of months ago, I happened to catch the TED Talk given by Star Trek director J. J. Abrams concerning his love of mystery. The centerpiece of the talk was a simple cardboard box secured […]
