Make: Electronics enjoyed some tremendous holiday sales. We’re thrilled by the reaction it’s gotten so far. It’s currently the No. 1 bestseller in three Amazon categories: Circuits, Robotics, and Robotics and Automation, and #4 in the main Electronics category. It got written up on Boing Boing, Wired’s GeekDad, and elsewhere, and the Shed ended up […]
MAKE subscriber Joe Kerman sent us a link to this video about how mechanical controllers for traffic lights work. This is from a Canadian kid’s TV show from the late 80s (I think), called the Acme School of Stuff. I watched a number of other episodes on YouTube and found them pretty engaging and educational. […]
Hardware hacking goddess Jeri Ellsworth has been busy building her own pinball machine from scratch, and with subassemblies she’s cannibalized from other machines. On day three of the build, she runs through what she’s done so far. Can’t wait to see the finished machine. Home Brew Pinball Machine – Day 3
The amazing Pete Friedrichs has posted a cool video on how he used spinning green LEDs and simple electronics to create a modern version of a “magic eye” vacuum tube. He writes: So-called “magic eye” tubes are display devices, which indicate signal level by the projection of wedge-shaped shadows on a glowing view screen. They […]
Our latest book, Make: Electronics, has been selling like hot cakes (do hot cakes really sell that well, BTW?), so much so that the conveyor belts were empty for awhile and our mechanical maker elves had nothing to box up and ship. The engines of commerce are once again in motion and there’s still time […]
QRPMe, Rex Harper’s site for QRP (reduced-power) amateur radio kits, has a nifty little prototyping board that fits inside of a mint tin and could be used for other types of mint tin projects. The board (and a mint tin to house it) cost $12 postpaid. While you’re on his site, check out some of […]
Flickr user arms22 came up with this little “hack” to add at-a-glance color-coding to the resistor chart in his Maker’s Notebook. You could also just do neater colored squares, or outline the boxes for each color name, so you wouldn’t have to color in the entire row. arms22’s photostream More: Maker’s Notebook homepage In the […]
