From the MAKE Flickr pool Spikenzie Labs shares some glamour shots of the new Hardcopy Arduino prototyping board – Designed to make a permanent version (or Hardcopy if you will) of your project once you have perfected it on a breadboard but without the expense of embedding your original Arduino into your project. The hardcopy […]
Did you know that we offer PDFs of some of the popular projects and primers that have appeared in MAKE magazine? You can always subscribe to the Digital Edition of MAKE or buy a single back issue with the project you’re interested in, or you can just download the specific PDF you’re looking for. Each […]
I’m leaving for a 3 week trip bright and early tomorrow morning, and in preparation, today I gathered the supplies for a fun travel art kit. I went to Art and Soul, my local arts and crafts shop in Sebastopol (where our Craft Intern Lindsey works!). I found some great things there. All the kit […]
I’m old (never you mind the hard number). But I’m still a kid at heart and I love toys. And I’m not talking about motorcycles and cars and speed boats, aka “grown-up toys,” I’m talking model rockets, radio-controlled anything, little toy soldiers, and board games. TOYS! The cool thing about being an adult, and being […]
Recently I’ve been helping a friend’s 11-year-old daughter get started in electronics. The use of a solderless breadboard was counterintuitive to her until I presented her with one of these clear-cased versions, available through Solarbotics. As she puts it, “you can see where the metal is.”
I love “lazyweb” sites, Q&A sites, and other crowdsourced resources that deal in instant-gratification content. I especially like them when the signal-to-noise ratio is high; when a lot of really smart, inspired people come together to share their expertise. As of a few weeks ago, O’Reilly now has its own such site, O’Reilly Answers, a […]
Somewhere at the junction of modern open-source hardware and early 80’s Russia lives a beautiful new DIY kit from the Maker Shed called the Ice Tube Clock.
