Skill Set: Electronics tips from “Ask MAKE”
For the past few years, we ran a column called “Ask MAKE,” where we attempted to answer reader-submitted questions about all things making.
Skill Builders
How-To: Map proprietary connectors
Dan Reetz hates it when manufacturers make up a proprietary connector when there are viable standard alternatives, so he gave the Casio EX-FH100 shutter release/video/USB cable what it had coming: a good hack. The process is abstracted enough to take this technique to another situation, and his tutorial is funny, too (warning, some adult language).
Skill Set: Understanding electronic components
Over the last few years, our very own Collin Cunningham has authored a series of awesome videos called MAKE Presents. Each video covers an electronic component (and one fundamental law of electronics). Understanding how these components function, and that law, are important first steps in understanding electronics. Here are all of the MAKE Presents videos […]
Skill Set: Soldering
It all starts with soldering. Over the years, we’ve been on something of a mission to teach soldering to all of our readers and we hope we’ve encouraged some of you to take the plunge. If not, now’s the time! It’s really not hard to do. It just takes a little practice and a few […]
Introducing Make: Skill Sets
In the past, we’ve run monthly themes on the site (e.g. Earth Sciences, Alt.Transportation, Citizen Science). This year, we’re going to do a series of monthly “Make: Skill Sets” (special articles and projects and round-ups of existing projects and posts designed to teach basic competency in a discipline). To coincide with the forthcoming release of […]
Circuit Skills: LED Color Organ
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/circuit_skills_led_color_organ_spon.html
Join Collin as he synchronizes light to sound using the power of analog circuitry. It’s disco-tech!
Circuit Skills: Surface Mount Devices, sponsored by Jameco Electronics
I’ve tried my hand at quite a few different methods for circuit building — breadboard, perfboard, custom etching, even some boardless freeform wiring, but somehow, I never got around to using surface-mount parts (until now, that is). Understandably, many balk at the idea of soldering the infamously tiny SMD packages, but once equipped with the […]
