In true spirit, Make: Live is very much a DIY production. Instead of tripods, we use zip ties to mount webcams to chairs and we jury rig an old monitor to act as our prompter. Along those lines, I decided to create an on air light to indicate when we’re broadcasting. While I could have […]
Many an experimenter, hacker, tinkerer, & maker have heeded the call of the mighty matrix – and it’s no mystery why. A small army of LEDs elegantly wired in grid formation would be difficult for anyone with an appreciation for electronics hardware to pass up – even after considering the sometimes daunting wiring job that […]
The Monotron mini analog synthesizer is a simple but sweet-sounding synth that sports basic features that give a nod to us hardware hackers.
In this week’s CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole and I took a trip to Brooklyn’s She-Weld studio for a special blacksmithing lesson from Alex Himmelbaum. He showed us how to taper and decoratively curl the end of a steel rod and rivet it to a hammered backplate. It’s the burliest paper towel holder we’ve seen, […]
Make: Live ep03 video is online! Thanks to our guest Sean Ragan, we enjoyed an evening of science. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 03 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room transcript! Sean Ragan – Laser Projection Microscope MAKE contributing writer […]
Join us Wednesday evening for the third episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Make: Live 03 – Science Fair Projects Wednesday February 23rd, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream We also give away a fabulous prize from Digi-Key to one chat member who can solve our photo challenge. We […]
In this episode of Tiny Yellow House for MAKE, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen shows us one of his salvage uses for freebie pallet wood— an ultra-simple deck chair that cost him 89 cents (screws/nails) to build. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. There are […]
