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Lenore Edman And The Evil Mad Science That You Do So Well

Lenore Edman And The Evil Mad Science That You Do So Well

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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Is Lenore Edman an evil mad scientist? Undeniably, since she is co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. But she’s not really evil, is she?

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Gifts for the Electronics Whiz, Geek, Nerd, Wonk, Ace, Pro, Babe, or Stud in Your Life

Gifts for the Electronics Whiz, Geek, Nerd, Wonk, Ace, Pro, Babe, or Stud in Your Life

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Take it from one who knows: this stuff is awesome. Even if you have no idea what it does or why anyone would care.

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EMSL’s Drink-Making Unit 2.1

EMSL’s Drink-Making Unit 2.1

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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Having built my own drink-making robot one–it’s hard!–I appreciate a sweet drinkbot. Windell and Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories continue to refine DMU, swapping out pumps and trying new angles on drink recipes, while still keeping the sweet Erlenmeyer flasks that set the drinkbot apart. Drink-Making Unit 2.1‘s angle is to offer six flavor […]

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Soldering Surface Mount LEDs on a Through-Hole PCB

Soldering Surface Mount LEDs on a Through-Hole PCB

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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EMSL customer Peter T. painstakingly soldered surface-mount LEDs (tinier than a grain of rice) onto the through-hole PCB of a Peggy matrix. Peter soldered 625 separate LEDs onto the board with the help of a jig, and Peggy worked perfectly with the surface-mount LEDs.

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RobotGrrl’s Heathkit Build Continues

RobotGrrl’s Heathkit Build Continues

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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I’m following along as Erin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy continues to build the vintage Heathkit voltmeter she unboxed earlier this month. Now she’s continuing the build! Last part we unboxed the Heathkit, looked at all the components, and started to build some of it. Now it’s time to finish off the build with the three main plates. […]

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