We love seeing people’s workspaces. You learn so much about them, their approach to their work, the kinds of tools they use, how they organize themselves, what of their labors they choose to display, and so on. You can also get useful ideas for organizing your own workshop, studio, or office. And generally, be inspired. […]
I love this gorgeous set of computer speakers, with masonitecomponents cut out on a laser cutter and veneered. And the B3N drivers he used look sweet. B3 Mini Array Computer Speakers DIY
Did you know that you can get Make: Online delivered to your inbox each day? Feedblitz, the service that we use, does a really nice job of formatting the content. You get the entire day’s worth of web content in a single digest email. Make: Daily Mail gives you an internally-linked “What’s In This Issue” […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to focus 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 […]
Tim writes in: What are the reasons we see light bulbs made up of lots of small LED’s instead of one large LED? As Collin showed us in his excellent video about the subject, LEDs pass electricity through “dies,” or little chips cut from a larger wafer of semiconductor; there is just a small active […]
Our pals at Adafruit have released kits for their most awesome Tweet-a-Watt, a kit that turns a lonely Kill-a-Watt power meter into a Twittering energy-usage reporter. Now you can tweet your ravenous power hunger to the entire world! The Tweet-a-Watt Starter Kit, with everything you need to create one outlet monitor (minus the Kill-a-Watt unit), […]
Instructables user Saul shows us how to make an easy chalk holder from a piece of bamboo. If there’s none in or around your back yard, maybe they have small decorative pieces at your local import store, or maybe even the thrift store! This should be useful for all you schoolteachers out there who’ve yet […]
