hre There was no shortage of Nerf guns and other toy weapons in Simon Jansen’s geek-filled office, but none of them impressed Simon, so like any good maker would do, he decided to build a better Nerf gun himself. His coworker Lester had brought in the Nerf Maverick, and though he could load multiple darts, […]
In the lead-up to tomorrow’s Dale Dougherty/MAKE segment on “The Next List” program (Sunday, 2pm EST), CNN has posted an article by Dale entitled How to Make More ‘Makers’ – and Why It Matters.
On this week’s Make: Talk podcast, Mark talks with inveterate tinkerer and “broad-spectrum hobbyist” Steve Lodefink about his sunburst guitar project from MAKE Volume 29, his atomic ball clock, bottle rockets and other projects.
Meet Doug Paradis, a member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group and Dallas Makerspace. In MAKE Volume 29, Doug wrote about making the Tiny Wanderer, a beginner-level robot that autonomously navigates with a $2 microcontroller. Doug is interested in microcontrollers, robots, crafts, and fishing.
When Steve Hoefer sent in his prototype of the Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder, we had a field day with it taking turns walking around MAKE headquarters with our eyes closed. Using it is super intuitive: with your hand extended, the servos vibrate as you get closer to an object, like a wall, and alert you […]
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, of CNN, came to the MAKE HQ in Sebastopol today. He got to meet our team of interns and see our work in Make: Labs. He and I recorded an interview and we did several demos of making in action for the program.
Last night’s Make: Live marks our season two premiere, and we peeked at projects from the new MAKE Volume 29, learned about an innovative dog toy, and hung out together live in the chat. We’re trying something new with the archive: you can view the entire show in the Make: Live 24 playlist YouTube we’ve […]
