John Baichtal @ Make: Online has the scoop: The 18th of February has been designated as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, an offshoot of National Engineers Week. A few days ago we asked Dr. AnnMarie Thomas, a professor of engineering at the University of St. Thomas, to share her thoughts on the occasion. If […]
I can’t wait to tackle this great army bunker tent from Obsessively Stitching. She shows how you can convert your kitchen table into a kidtastic tent. I especially love how she shows how to create a PVC frame to add shape to the tent, but still makes it possible to collapse everything into one small […]
By Kris Magri, engineering intern Thanks again to everyone who entered the Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest! As promised, our team at Make: Labs has built the winning gadget: the super-stealth Listening Cup designed by Grand Prize winner Nic. Check it out! Amid a raft of great entries that were extremely creative, the Listening Cup […]
By Future Craft Collective In our house the piles of random artwork are vast and ever present. We all like to draw, paint, and sketch, and when one is drawing, painting, sketching, it encourages all others in the house to do the same. We love the process but don’t always know what to do with […]
Thus was born the idea of the scratch guitar controllers.
I experimented with a bunch of materials trying to find a resistor with the properties I needed, including VHS tape, tin foil, nichrome wire and conductive thread, to name a
few, before I stumbled on conductive foam. The foam is normally used to ship delicate electronics & ICs because it prevents the buildup of static electricity. It costs just a few dollars per sheet. I used the 1/4″ thick variety and paid about $7 for enough to make more than a dozen guitars. Other materials include scrap MDF, old futon slats, empty plastic film canisters (free from any place that still develops film), metallic tape (from any hardware store) & speaker wire.
Flickr user pfeifmusic writes: This is a nightlight I made for my daughter from a ball I found in the a department store clearance isle. I took a drill to it; some of the holes go all the way through, some just scratch the surface. There’s a high brightness white LED inside. The ball is […]
I often have trouble finding pants that fit my kids in the waist and the length, and we end up trying to cinch up the waists to keep the pants from falling down. So I’m taking special note of this tutorial for cute adjustable belts for kids. The tutorial is part of the fun Celebrate […]
