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8 Crazy Keyboards That Will Trick Out Your Typing

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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A custom keyboard could be right at your fingertips, so why are you still using that basic keyboard that came with your computer?

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A Working OLED Watch Built from Scratch

A Working OLED Watch Built from Scratch

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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What do you do when you have a small spare organic LED display? If you’re computer engineering student Jared Sanson, you make a watch out of it, designing nearly every aspect of it from scratch. This design was started at the circuit level, and after that, a PCB was laid out in Altium, which Jared […]

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Expanding the Arduino Ecosystem with MicroView

Expanding the Arduino Ecosystem with MicroView

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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The MicroView is Arduino compatible—and a member of the Arduino at Heart program—but it doesn’t share that classic form factor. It’s a tiny chip-sized, breadboard compatible, Arduino with a built-in OLED display.

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How-To: Minifig Scale OLED Display

How-To: Minifig Scale OLED Display

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Very cool idea from Dan over at adafruit: Use an OLED display module to create working scale train schedules, plane schedules, TVs, or other scale flat-panel displays for your Lego models

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Beagleboard Ebook reader

Beagleboard Ebook reader

By Adam Flaherty

Adam Flaherty

I make cool stuff and write about other people making cool stuff on makezine.com. If you have something you think I should see, send me a tip.

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Justin Huynh over at Liquidware has pieced together another Beagleboard gadget. This time around he’s focused on building a DIY Beagleboard Ebook reader out of snap-on components and the open source FBReader software. It won’t fit in your pocket, but it more than makes up for it in hackability.

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