Florin made a giant TV-B-Gone... 48 IR LEDs and an ATmega8 that sends the signals to the LEDs. Source code and schematics included. He writes - I arranged the LED’s in 4 rows of 12 pieces and the resi...
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Well if not hell maybe just from that creepy dark crawl space in your house. You know the one..Anyway most scarecrows are smiling buffoons who can barely scare away crows much less people but not this...
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From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I'll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19.Tickets here; see you there!What a wonderful combina...
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Look at this strange and cool origami skeleton by Marc Kirschenbaum - there are 10 pages of complicated, hand-drawn instructions to make this model!Read more |Permalink | Comments | Read more articles...
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Maker Faire is a great place to bring your family. There are plenty of things to do no matter what age you are. If you have little kids, make sure to check out the Teeter Totters by Faith Schexnayder,...
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Maker Faire Austin is happening soon, the weekend of October 18-19 at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin, TX. Find out all about the crafty activities in store for you and your family in this wee...
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Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes... So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn't want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a net...
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We would love someone to take to the sky for a nice aerial photo of the make-tastic-ness that is Maker Faire Austin 2008 next weekend.Can anyone help us out?? Read more |Permalink | Comments | Read mo...
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Here's a sweet example of a circuit-bent TR707 drum machine.Perhaps 'modified' is a more appropriate term as the added pitch controls seem more practical than exploratory.[via Matrixsynth] Read more |...
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You can watch (at least) 5 full episodes of MacGyver on YouTube now via Lifehacker.Update: Veoh has over 100 episodes!More:The MakeShift challenge invites MAKE readers to submit their solutions to a p...
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Robert Oschler, of Robots Rule, has a video up showing a preview of his Robodance software controlling the new Wow Wee Rovio remote surveillance bot via a Nintendo Wiimote. With this set-up, a Wiimote...
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Alex built this optical square wave synth inspired by the work have Bleep labs. Nice removable LED tentacles! - opto_synth Read more |Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music |Digg this!
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Sparkfun preps for Maker Faire -The Flame kit is an interactive piece we've been working on. The individual flame has an ATtiny13 running some basic detection and LED pulsing firmware. All parts are t...
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David Jones really liked his old Casio CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. As a professional electronics design engineer, he appreciated the greater functionality it had over other calculator watches...
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Techdweeb has a great collection of circuit bent gadgets... I really like the "Super Ear Blaster". The bender writes- This was one of those generic chinese drum machine thingees, the kind that shares ...
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It's Friday so I thought I would share one of the more complicated Halloween projects with you. This is Monster in a Box. This prop is something you see in a lot of professional Haunted House and make...
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MAKE and CRAFT friend Leah Buechley writes in about an awesome opportunity:Daniela Rosner, Eric Paulos, Amanda Willams, and I will be holding a workshop called DIY for CHI (Computer-Human Interaction ...
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Tom Eckert makes incredible wooden sculptures that often look just like draped cloth. He also made this awesome Tank Chair. From the images of his tromp l'oeil sculptures, you would never know that th...
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If you read all the articles about America falling behind in math and science you can't help but be bummed out, but that's not how we roll at MAKE... Below is a snip from a recent report about how we'...
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Here's a note from Dale our publisher...Perhaps the most interesting question in Wednesday's presidential debate was a question asked near the end by Tom Brokaw..."Should we fund a Manhattan-like proj...
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