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December 12, 2014
LED By Example
Note: This is an excerpt from Charles Platt’s newest book, The Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Volume 2, the second in his reference trilogy. Unlike the “Learning by Discovery” emphasis of Charles’ popular Make: Electronics and Make: More Electronics, the Encyclopedia series doesn’t have step-by-step instructions for experiments, but rather, is […]
Raspberry Pi Headed to International Space Station
In partnership with Astronaut Tim Peake, UK Space, and the European Space Agency, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is sending their single board computers to the International Space Station in a program dubbed “Astro Pi.” Two Raspberry Pis will be sent to the ISS as part of Tim’s 6 month mission […]
Convert an Old Slide Projector for Modern Video Use
Projectors can be expensive. Fortunately, slide projectors are not. The idea has probably occurred to many of us that one of these could be melded with modern electronics. It’s possible it’s been done before, but This converted model, made at the Cairo Hackerspace (that’s Egypt, not Georgia), is the first working […]
December 11, 2014
New Project: Joust-A-Bot
Turn a basic line-following robot into a jousting knight. Append a simple circuit to the chassis, add some personality to your bot, and let the games begin!
Charles Clary’s Nostalgic Paper Cut Sculptures
Charles Clary turns his childhood nostalgia into striking works of art in a series of sculptures constructed from intricately cut layers of colored paper.
A Story of Summer Internship at Make:
My name is Pierre-Alexandre and I’m a french student. I wanted to do a summer internship at Make:, thanks to the advice of my uncle Bertier, who organized Maker Faire Paris. I did it this last summer, and here’s how it was: I arrived in Sebastopol on Monday 12th July. […]
DiResta: Spoon on a Lathe
Here you see me make a spoon using a chunk of Bubinga wood I had leftover from a project.
A Raspberry Pi Powered Bulk Arduino Programmer
Whilst building lots of robots to fulfill a recent Kickstarter project, I had the need to program a thousand or so Arduinos, which would take forever if I were to program them all individually. Situations like this are the perfect opportunity to work on those meta projects which can be just […]
Taking the Cube Quest Challenge
Registration is now open for NASA's first in-space challenge competition, offering the agency’s largest-ever prize purse. Your journey into lunar orbit begins at Moffett Field in January.
Silver Spring, Maryland, Makerspace Being Organized
A makerspace is being organized for Silver Spring, Maryland - a suburb of Washington DC.
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