Don’t forget, we’re giving away a $100 Maker Shed gift certificate to our favorite entry in the “Teach Your Family to Solder” MAKEcation challenge. We’re also giving away five additional prizes (your choice of The Best of MAKE or The Best of Instructables) and some Maker’s Notebooks, so be sure to upload your images and […]
We hope you and your family are having fun learning how to solder. If you are, take some pictures and load them to the MAKE Flickr pool. The first five people who load family soldering pics and tag them “MAKEcation” will get a free Maker’s Notebook. To help give you some ideas for projects you […]
At this year’s Maker Faire, I met Dale Wheat. He was at a counter in the Maker Shed demonstrating his kits. I was impressed at how clever they were, and how inexpensive. We talked for a few minutes, and then I went off to explore. Before the weekend was over, I dropped a few of […]
Above is a table with some GMC-4s on it and some Gakken analog synth kits. Below that is Francesco Fondi (right) talking to Kaneko San, the editor of the Gakken’s Otona no Kagaku magazine. (More pics of the evening, including several of the NEC TK-80, after the jump.) Our pal Francesco Fondi, of Modellismo Hobby […]
Ray Wilson of MFOS demonstrates the use of his WSG project under the control of a basic sequencer. Skip ahead to the 4m20s mark for a straightforward explanation of how this simple mod does its thing. Though Ray uses an MFOS 10-step sequencer with above, this would likely work with any basic 4017-based sequencer (or […]
Here’ a lovely stand (pad) for the PICnome OSC (open source controller). The maker (in Japan), of both the PICnome controller and the pad, is selling a limited number of kits. tkrworks
It’s a good thing that Limor and Phil of adafruit industries only use their powers for good. Otherwise, we’d all be in trouble. The dynamic hacking duo has just released a new comic book version of their awesome Citizen Engineer video, episode 1, on SIM card hacking. They’re printing the books on-demand at adafruit, limited […]
