A couple of weeks ago, MAKE photographer Gregory Hayes, designer Michael Silva, O’Reilly Web Producer Tony Quartarolo, and I had the opportunity to attend Amp Camp, just up the road from the O’Reilly offices in Sebastopol California. What’s Amp Camp? Glad you asked. A few years ago, Dana Brock held Speaker Camp, where 20 or […]
Spikenzie Labs’ latest kit, the Music Game (available in the Maker Shed), is a great beginning soldering project that’s also fun (and addicting) to play.
These are the ongoing adventures of the MAKE Sales and Marketing team, as we build our maker skill sets… pretty much from scratch. To read about how MAKE Sales Camp came to be, go here. Up until now at MAKE Sales Camp, it’s been all fun and games. We did a little programming, a little […]
Interested in learning about SMT soldering? Check out the Blinky SMT POV and Grid kits, now available in the Maker Shed!
Jaanus Kalde has made an Arduino clone that’s just 7.4 mm square. He used the ATmega88 chip and built the rest of the components around it.
Learn how easy it is to make your own solder flux at home.
Besides being a gifted engineer and writer, John de Cristofaro is a talented photographer. Of this beautiful black-and-white “smoking iron” print, he writes: “All of us started the same way — as curious kids (maybe big kids). At first, most of us were following in the path of someone else — along what feels like a straight, well-defined line. But there’s a point where things start to diverge, and we go off and do our own thing. That’s what making is all about, and that’s what I tried to capture here.”
