Joe Grand drew up this schematic out to go with our first Awesome Electronics Workshop. You can also get these schematics in itunes as a pdf. Since it’s a schematic and a pdf podcast, I declare it a schematicast! Here’s a pic of the basic stamp hooked up with a piezo buzzer for the ringtone […]
Last night Make: Magazine sponsored a dorkbot meetup in a tent just outside of SXSW in Austin. Austin makers showed up and shared amazing machines, robots, and contraptions. I got their a little early and got a chance to take some video before it got super crowded. Austin makers have got it going on! I […]
After getting a few winks at the banks lake motel our posse headed out to a remote undisclosed location. Our team of crackerjack location planners used balloon tracking software to compile weather and windspeed data to simulate our flight and picked a location out the flight maps that would keep us from landing on railroad […]
Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! We’re using weather balloons to go up to approximately 100k feet armed with 4 cameras… 20 megapixels of […]
This project took a bit longer than a week and a total of 16 people contributed to the project. The only way this worked was to use a wiki. Each team member posted anything they learned or links and info they found on the wiki. All this research and work is now compiled on the […]
An Oscilloscope is an electronic measurement devices that is handy to have in the workshop for observing the characteristics of a circuit in real time, debugging, and hardware hacking. Joe Grand, of Grand Idea Studio, introduces us to the use of oscilloscopes this weekend and shows how it works. Want to know more? Check out […]
This week’s CRAFT Pattern Podcast features knit and crochet designer, Amy O’Neill Houck’s knit bike helmet ear warmers that are fast and easy to make. Amy says, “Year-round bicycle commuters know that rain and wind can chill our ears and lower your body temperature making your ride umpleasant. These easy-to-knit wool ear covers are designed […]
