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Taking Another Look at Make: Television

Taking Another Look at Make: Television

Check out the Emmy-nominated Make: Television programs that we did in 2009

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From Chemist to World Renowned Blacksmith: James Austin

From Chemist to World Renowned Blacksmith: James Austin

  Now in his 40th year of blacksmithing, San Francisco Bay Area blacksmith James Austin has spent a lifetime researching little-known or lost metalworking techniques, and developing his own. Unable to deny his love for metal fabrication, James apprenticed to a blacksmith in Germany in the early 1980s after receiving his degree and a brief […]

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Projects With Ryan Slaugh: Helpful Circuits

Projects With Ryan Slaugh: Helpful Circuits

In this video, I will show you a few of my most used helpful circuits. They involve using the 555 timer and the Operational Amplifier.

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Projects With Ryan Slaugh: DIY gas Leak Detector

Projects With Ryan Slaugh: DIY gas Leak Detector

The Atmospheric Gas Detector Kit, found in the Makershed, gives you the components needed to detect different kinds of gases. In this episode of “Projects with Ryan Slaugh”, we will go through the steps of setting up the base experiment from the book included with the kit.

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Getting Started with Arduino Mini and FTDI

Getting Started with Arduino Mini and FTDI

In this episode of “Projects with Ryan Slaugh” I highlight using the Arduino Mini with the FTDI Friend. Normally, using an Arduino is as simple as plug and play into your USB. With the Mini, however, you need to use the FTDI Friend. The Friend itself is a simple device that converts USB to serial that can […]

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Raspberry Pi: Up and Running

Raspberry Pi: Up and Running

For those of you who haven’t yet played around with Raspberry Pi, this one’s for you. In this how-to video, I walk you through how to get a Raspberry Pi up and running. It’s the first in a series of Raspberry Pi videos that I’m making to accompany Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, a book […]

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Best of 2012: MAKE Video

Best of 2012: MAKE Video

This year saw the launch of several new MAKE video series that we’re really proud of, namely Make: Believe, profiling makers bringing the fantasy worlds of games, movies, and other fiction into the physical world, and DiResta, a twice monthly peek over the shoulder of master maker Jimmy DiResta as he realizes a project in his shop.

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