15 Fun Vines for Your Labor Day DIY Inspiration
It’s time for one last BBQ before putting away the equipment. And it’s time for one last DIY project that isn’t attached to Halloween, Thanksgiving, or the December holidays.
Electronics
DIY PCB Using Parchment Paper
How to use parchment paper and a laminator to make high quality PCB’s.
MAKE Presents: The Transistor
Collin Cunningham educates us on the transistor, the amazing component which basically revolutionized electronics.
How-To: Discreet Pants Fly Checker
Instructables editor Randy Sarafan created this amazingly useful tutorial that discreetly checks that your fly isn’t down and alerts when it is!
Create a Fountain for UIST’s Student Innovation Contest
UIST (the ACM Symposium on User Inerface Software and Technology) is holding a Student Innovation Contest available for students ranging from high school to Ph. D.: The goal of the contest is to innovate new interactions on state-of-the-art hardware. We give you the hardware, and you show us what you can do. Contestants will demo […]
MAKE Presents: The Capacitor
Collin Cunningham provides an elegant description of capacitors, including early caps called Leyden jars.
Papercraft Dioramas Inside Papercraft Electronics
Artist Kevin LCK produced a series of sculptures called “Ordinary Behavior,” featuring amazingly detailed papercraft dioramas that examine our everyday relationships with electronics.