MAKE Magazine
MAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want.
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MIDI kit test-drive
MAKE contributor Michael Una posted a review of Highly Liquid's MD24 kit which converts MIDI events over to an array of 24 +5V outputs -The new MD24 falls into the latter category. It takes a MIDI input and gives you 24 discrete +5V outputs that can be used to drive relays, transistors, or servo mot …
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Synth Frog tours DIY workshops
Synth DIY's amphibious mascot, better known as "Mr. Braska", has been visiting a series of home labs via postal transport. The photo galleries of his modeling efforts serve as a nice way to bring together otherwise unconnected, private workspaces - plus he's getting pretty good with an iron - Se …
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Arduino in Unity3D
Unity3D hacker Pieter Floris writes in to say that he's finally got his Arduino connected compass controlling a camera in Unity3D. The barrier of entry continues to be lowered by projects like this. Kudos, Pieter! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read m …
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New in the Maker Shed: 6-in-1 Educational Solar Robotic kit
The 6-in-1 Educational Solar Robotic Kit is an excellent beginner building kit designed to teach how solar power is used to drive a small motor. Kids use the 21 snap-together parts (no tools required) to build 6 different working models including an airboat, car, windmill, puppy, and 2 different air …
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Robot body by Lego, brains by Arduino
Hector of Make: en Español sent us this piece from the site: What happens when you give an Arduino to a student whose resources barely provide for the most basic maker needs, but is nonetheless eager to create something awesome? You get tech-art in the making. David Busto Torres, the newest membe …
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Line-following chassis from RepRap
Here's a set of chassis parts for a line-following robot, made on a RepRap machine, by a member of the IEEE Robotic Club at Rutgers. The mechanical and electronics parts were part of a kit everybody got. This builder created this RepRap body to go with his kit. RepRapBot Mrk II Chassis for Line Fo …
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Crayon rings
Timothy Liles Crayon rings... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Flashback: Spinout
Back in August of 2006, on the pages of MAKE Volume 07, Colin Berry shared the story of his maker brother Kevin Berry and the role that the Soap Box Derby played in his short life. This intimate story moved us all. In October of 2006, Colin read the story as part of our Maker Files series, with an i …
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Banned Xboxs flood online marketplaces
Banned Xboxs flood online marketplaces via BBG. Hundreds of Xboxs have appeared on online marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist in the wake of the mass Xbox live bans. Over the past week Microsoft has banned nearly one million users from the online gaming service after finding that they had modi …
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Tinkering 2.0
In a follow-up to the the WSJ piece, "Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis," NPR did an OnPoint segment on "Tinkering and American Innovation," with the article's author, Justin Lahart, Bre Pettis, and David Hounshell, Tech and Social Change professor at CMU. Tinkering and American Innovation …
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"Father of video games" documentary
Motherboard has this wonderful look inside the world (and workshop) of Ralph Baer, creator of Pong, Simon, and other electronic/video game classics. Ralph Baer and His All-Purpose Boxes Read more | Permalink | Comments | …
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Electroluminescent liquor labels
Among the hairier of my hare-brained schemes involves formulating a safe-to-drink chemiluminescent cocktail. I think the first person to do it will become a very wealthy laughingstock, which, as I understand it, is the very definition of The American Dream. So I got really excited when I first saw …
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MAKE's mostly $20 and under electronics gift guide
As the holidays approach this year, money is tighter than ever for everyone. When thinking about gifts to give, consider the gift of DIY electronics and kits, not only could a loved one learn a new skill, but it could start them on a journey to a wonderful lifetime hobby, possibly a career! Helping …
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Morse code beacon using Arduino
Any hams out there that need a quick-and-dirty morse code beacon? Then you might be interested in Mark VandeWettering's Arduino Based Morse Beacon. I really like the clever way that he stores the code sequences for each character: It's a little bit clever (a very little bit) but I guess it does r …
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3D beehive bracelet
This beehive bracelet was modeled using OpenSCAD, a tool I'm looking forward to exploring! It was made by Thingiverse user Catarina; she printed it on her MakerBot. Stylish! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in 3D printing | …
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Batteryless remote powered by humans
Got a pedal-powered TV, but still have to keep replacing the batteries in that remote? Then you might want to keep an eye on this piezoelectricity batteryless remote (machine translation), being developed by NEC and Soundpower. Energy harvesting devices are nothing new, but this one seems interest …
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Intern's Corner: Test-firing the HHO rocket
Every other week, MAKE's awesome interns tell about the projects they're building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they've gotten into, and what they'll make next. By Steven Lemos, engineering intern Making the Hydrogen-Oxygen Bottle Rocket (that Adam Savage is posing with on the cover of the new M …
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"Bomb-proof" kevlar wallpaper
Very clever idea commercialized as the X-flex Blast Protection System, in which a high-tensile-strength composite film is applied to the inside of a masonry wall to reinforce it against lateral impact. The video embedded above was produced by Popular Science, who included the X-flex system in their …
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MAKE's Mostly $20 and under electronics gift guide
As the holidays approach this year, money is tighter than ever for everyone. When thinking about gifts to give, consider the give the gift of DIY electronics and kits, not only could a loved one learn a new skill but it could start them on a journey to a wonderful lifetime hobby and possibly a caree …
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Robolamps
Croatian designer Robert Matysiak has made a delightful array of these "robolamps" by kit-bashing from plumbing supplies and variously colored light bulbs. They are, alas, not presently for sale. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Fu …
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