We’ve just posted a PDF excerpt from our first Craft book, Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Fashioning Technology. The book covers everything you need to know to get started making wearable electronics, smart toys, furniture, and home decor. It’s a very cool book that gives you the skills and inspiration to make some amazing things. Here’s a taste […]
Shawn posted this vid covering the full build process for the ever popular MiniPOV3 kit from Adafruit Industries. Surely helpful for those getting started with the kit – Thanks Shawn!
Jason writes in… I thought you and the rest of the MAKE team might enjoy this story. I had been wanting one of your notebooks for quite some time, and I finally received one as a birthday gift from my wife back in October. She does not fully appreciate my fascination with your blog and […]
My son and I put together this blinking LED Christmas tree kit, and then hung little MAKE gift subscription and MAKE gift certificate ornaments from it. It was a lot of fun — he got to learn about anode vs. cathode sides of the LEDs as he fit them into place for soldering. The gift […]
Nobody was sure what exactly had happened to Christopher Robin after he’d left the Hundred Acre Wood, but they were thrilled with his gift certificates to the Maker Shed and the MAKE and CRAFT magazine subscriptions. Your friends will be thrilled, too! There’s still time to give gift subscriptions and Maker Shed gift certificates! Don’t […]
Here’s a project I did this Christmas. It’s the “Gift of Robot Invasion” LED Christmas Tree Ornament from The Best of Instructables, Volume 1. The bot is made out of copper plumbing parts, scrap circuit board, dead transistors for hands, the bottom of a beer can (for the bot’s satellite dish) and paper clips. The […]
If you’re still looking for a great last-minute gift, how about a subscription to MAKE or a gift certificate for the Maker Shed? Better yet, how about a customized version of the gift card or gift certificate? I took one of the gift cards and the DIY Design Electronics Kit and made a sort of […]
