It was another fun week in the Maker Shed. We managed to sneak in a few builds even though we spend the early part of the week at the 2009 NYC Toy Fair. Next week I am going to continue my How-To Tuesday series on programming the Arduino [part1, part2] and we will feature more […]
What do you do if you can’t decide which stickers to put on your Maker’s Notebook? You could always add an LCD to the cover and display all of them in a digital slide show. That’s what I did. However, there is a problem with this plan. The electronics took up all the space inside […]
NVIDIAรยฎ teamed up with MAKE and created the “Modification Station” a special section on MAKE that celebrates “SPEAK VISUAL” – from PC mods to amazing motion graphics this section had some of the best collections of amazing mods and visuals. For the contest any maker who had an amazing PC mod, gamer station or PC […]
Straight out of the 2005 archives, the Mod Your Rod special section in MAKE Volume 03 has got to be one of my favorites of all time.
MAKE Volume 17 just got shipped off to the printer this week, and one of the DIY builds that the interns had a lot of fun with was the “USB Key Makeovers” project by Brian Nadel.
“FielDrum” is an acoustic drum built with a system of magnets that pull the performer’s hits so that they complete the correct drumming motion. Imagine if you were learning to play and your instructor was always there, guiding your hits to the correct location on the drum. The system emulates this sensation through controlled magnetism. […]
Scrabble keyboard via Giz. Datamancer writes – This keyboard was commissioned by a couple of friends of mine from back east (NJ) who are avid Scrabble players. Most of the keys are made from real Scrabble tiles that were all hand-beveled (truly an exercise in patience/masochism!) and built onto a USB, clicky, mechanical-switch keyboard. This […]
