The Best of Instructables: Volume 1 (Full Length) from Instructables on Vimeo. The Instructables team whipped up this really nice little video for The Best of Instructables in time for us to show it in The Best of Instructables area in the Maker Shed at Maker Faire Austin. In the Shed we had an area […]
Yesterday afternoon, a whoop of excitement resounded throughout the Maker Shed — currently under construction at Maker Faire Austin — as we cracked open boxes of Getting Started with Arduino, fresh from the printers. There’s nothing that beats that feeling of seeing the results of so much hard work and devotion in physical form. The […]
OMG! It’s here! The Best of Instructables, the latest from Make: Books, is on its way to Maker Faire Austin and a few copies have found their way to the Maker Media and Instructables offices. Here’s Instructables’s Eric J. Wilhelm and the Instructables robot enjoying their first peeks. I hope the robot’s happy. Eric says: […]
The Animated Ghost kit is a great way to learn more about electronics and soldering. It’s really easy to put together and the end result is a great addition to your Halloween decorations. Let’s get started. The things you need: Animated Ghost Kit – Available in the Maker SHED Soldering Iron File Rosin core solder […]
This week I built a Mechamo Crab by Gakken. I have wanted to make one of these kits for a long time, and I finally got my chance. I made a time lapse-video of the entire build, it took about 3 hours to complete, but now it’s just a bit over 5 minutes. I hope […]
Even as I type this, the inky pages of our forthcoming Make: Books title, The Best of Instructables, are fluming their way through giant printing presses. Having been a printer for many years, I can hear the sounds and smell the ink from here. The book will be released at Maker Faire Austin, Oct 18th […]
More good stuff the folks @ Solarbotics – A solar-powered, night-activated dazzler. Comes with four high-intensity LEDs that “PUMMM” when the lights go out. That is, they turn on STRONG, then slowly fade away. This’d make a pretty sweet tech-braoch / geek corsage – for formal occasions, of course. – HexPummer Kit
