Young maker Sasha shows us how to assemble the solar frightened grasshopper kit from the Maker Shed in this, another kid-made video on the MAKE ‘tubes. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. The snap-together Solar Grasshopper kit uses solar energy to generate […]
We asked Steven Roberts, the venerable “high-tech nomad,” best known for his net-connected, gadget-laden Winnebiko and BEHEMOTH bike projects from the 1980s, to write a series of articles on the amazing new mobile projects lab he’s building, dubbed Polaris. This tricked-out trailer will allow Steve to be ready-to-make wherever he parks, with all manner of […]
Dirty Electronics’ new PCB instrument creates some noisy-good reasons to touch a skull – The Skull Etching combines etched artwork and electronics into a unique touch instrument. The electronics for the instrument utilise just one integrated circuit (IC), yet the instrument features two oscillators, distortion, feedback network, filter and interference/hum/radio. Touch the skulls to play […]
Via PopMech: these early prototypes of Leatherman tools. Starting with cardboard, then moving to wood, then finally a crude (compared with the final result!) metal example. In the Maker Shed: Make: Open Sourcerer – Leatherman Juice CS4 Tool Our Price: $74.95 MAKE’s very own limited edition Leatherman tool, the Open Sourcerer. This is our branded […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
This is pretty cool WD-40 has a “Now and Then” pack via Giz… To celebrate WD-40’s heritage and honor multiple generations of WD-40 users, we’re offering you a 1950s-style WD-40 Collector’s Can in the Now & Then Twin Pack.
As was mentioned on Twitter recently, Evernote now has a MAKE-branded “Notebook” section, a collection of tutorials from Make: Projects that you can add to your personal Evernote account. Many of us are big Evernote fans here, so it’s great to have this partnership. Make: Projects on Evernote is part of their new Evernote Trunk, […]
