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“The Wolfe’s Den” Treehouse in the Catskills – Tiny Yellow House I designed, pre-fabricated, hauled, and then re-assembled a treehouse I've dubbed "The Wolfe's Den" (Wolfe being the last name of the woman I built it for), and luckily had Steven Sherrick of Modern Vintage Productions to help document the laborious process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Wolfe’s Den” Treehouse in the Catskills – Tiny Yellow House I designed, pre-fabricated, hauled, and then re-assembled a treehouse I've dubbed "The Wolfe's Den" (Wolfe being the last name of the woman I built it for), and luckily had Steven Sherrick of Modern Vintage Productions to help document the laborious process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laser Cut Couture with Diana Eng Designer Diana Eng shows us some samples from her Laser Lace collection. By using a laser etcher on fabric she creates intricate lace designs inspired by the cells of plants and flowers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick LED Robot Ornament (video) My colleagues over on CRAFT all have the work ethics and compulsive tendencies that of any crafter worth his/her stripes. When Rachel and Lish proposed an ornament swap this year, precariously close to Christmas, we all piled on. None of us can resist crafting on a deadline. I whipped up a whole bunch of these cardboard LED robot ornaments on Sunday morning. I used what I had at hand-- some cardboard, spray paint, and a whole bunch of LEDs. Since I can't resist the urge to document my c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: DIY Contact Mic It's amazing what a little disk can do … when it's layered with piezoelectric crystals. Piezo disks are impressively sensitive to vibration and can easily be adapted to work as a contact microphones. The trick is the preamp - a basic circuit used to match the piezo's signal to levels compatible with modern audio gear inputs. The resulting piezo/preamp combo can be used for electrifying an acoustic guitar or simply exploring the lesser-heard world of small sound around us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Holiday Giveaway 12/14/11 (video) Make: Live's holiday episode features some fun project ideas for this festive time of year! See a skirt light up when you dance, a brass rocking horse ornament,and connect your Christmas decorations to the internet. Above, Ben Light demonstrates his technique for these mini paper stars, which fit onto your Christmas lights to create a strand of festive glowing stars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: The Lonely Christmas Tree There’s no better way to show your geek cred on Christmas than hooking up your Christmas tree to the internet. While it’s certainly not a new idea, I was eager to try out my own spin on it this holiday season. The Lonely Christmas Tree lights up whenever you receive an email, hopefully adding a little cheer to your holiday season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Army of Elmo Robots Cannot be Stopped Adrianne Wortzel first saw Tickle-Me-Elmo-TMX during her residency in the Artificial Intelligence Lab in Zurich, Switzerland, and noticed something interesting about the robotic toy. It wasn't long before she amassed an army of them. And what army is complete without synchronized maneuvers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live’s Holiday Giveaway (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! This week it's our Holiday Giveaway show. We'll look at Matt's internet-connected Christmas tree, Michael Colombo's homemade Magnetotron instrument, and give away some serious holiday prizes from Digi-Key for live viewers in the chat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sylvia’s Super-Awesome MAKE Holiday Gift Guide 2011 Welcome to Sylvia's Super-Awesome Make Holiday Gift guide 2011! Your source for what to get your favorite maker this holiday season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Crafts in Maker Faire Video 2011 Today I thought I'd highlight some of my favorite crafty makers and the projects they've brought to Maker Faire through a special YouTube playlist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collab: Creators Working in Parallel Co-working office space, a woodshop, sewing lab, creative people, dogs and a laser cutter; how awesome is that?!?! Adina and Marc Levin show us around Collab, their collaborative workspace in Manhattan, which is pretty much the coolest place you could imagine working in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website i3 Detroit: The Motor City’s Own Hackerspace Founding members Nick Britsky, Russ Wolfe and Ted Hansen take us on a tour of i3, Detroit's premier hackerspace. Although well appointed with extensive workspaces and every tool imaginable, i3 Detroit's real strength is its members, its sense of community, and the collaboration that occurs when makers have a place to meet and work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brother Nature Produce: Greg Willerer (video) One short mile away from downtown Detroit is Brother Nature Produce, a community supported farm run by Greg Willerer. Greg shows us around the farm and discusses his composting venture, which aims to create a closed loop of urban food waste being turned back into food that is healthy and locally produced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Hackerspace Roadshow 11/30/11 (video) Make: Live‘s Hackerspace Roadshow takes you on a virtual journey to hackerspaces around the globe. Above, makers from NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, NY demo their projects including an Inspector Gadget inspired pop up book, a TV-B-Gone NES Light Gun, remote controlled HAM radio base station, and stylish RFID-blocking wallets. Subscribe to the Make: Live Podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reclaiming, Reusing and Remembering Detroit: Tim Burke (video) On a visit to the Heidelberg Project outdoor art installation in Detroit, we happened across longtime Detroit resident and artist Tim Burke. Tim filled us in on the tragedy of, and artistic opportunity in, the destruction of some of Detroit's most interesting and historic buildings. In addition to losing architectural landmarks, artworks within these buildings are also lost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giant Bubbles Float Through Maker Faire Sterling Johnson has childhood memories of being fascinated by blowing bubbles, even learning how to make them using only soap and his own hands. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 he uses a variety of simple devices to create both massive bubbles and swarms of smaller bubbles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bounce For Glory: Peter William Wagner (video) Peter William Wagner bounces across the fairgrounds at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, delighting everyone whose path he crosses. The big purple eccentric-axled bike has two inflated all-terrain wheels that can also function as flotation for the aquatic parts of the annual Kinetic Grand Championship in and around Arcada, California, where this "whim-cycle" has appeared for the last six years. Even Peter's baby granddaughter enjoys the ride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live’s Hackerspace Roadshow II (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! This episode is another Hackerspace Roadshow, where we take you to five hackerspaces across the globe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Holography I always assumed that the process of making a hologram was so complex that it was limited to only those with access to expensive lasers and other fancy optical equipment. But when I heard that the Maker Shed started carrying Litiholo’s Hologram Kit, I was surprised that such a thing existed and I was eager to give it a try. After carefully following the directions, my first hologram was visible, but just barely. This was better than I expected, actually. The manual stresses that controlli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Otyp Sows the Seeds of Biotechnology Kyle Lawson and James Peyer discuss their innovative strategy to get biotechnology into schools and hackerspaces. Their company otyp was formed with the purpose of making equipment and information accessible to anyone who wants to get started with genetic research and experiments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YouTube Playlist: Mark Frauenfelder Presents Maker Faire Today MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder would like to introduce you to some of his favorite makers, and the projects they've brought to Maker Faire, through a special YouTube playlist. If you don't know about Maker Faire, it's a festive two-day exhibition of DIY invention and creativity held annually in several locations around the United States. Mark selected these videos from our Maker Faire channel to give you an idea of the amazing energy and enthusiasm you'll experience at Maker F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Sewable Circuitry – Sylvia’s Mini Maker Show I bet you didn’t know that there’s a soft side to the hard edged fiberglass boarded electronics you know and love, and it’s called soft circuitry! The copper clad board in through-the-hole electronics can actually be replaced by cloth, and the traces replaced with conductive thread, allowing your projects to light up, and still be huggable and wear friendly. Today we’ll show you how to make your very own glowey-eyed cuddle monster you can sew together with the threadbare essentials. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DIY iPhone Gloves It can be frustrating to have to take off your gloves to use your touch screen phone. Capacitive touch screens sense how conductive your fingers are, and gloves are, well, insulators. Learn to mod your gloves with conductive thread in this episode of Becky's Workshop. See the complete how-to on Make: Projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robotic 3D Carver of Invisible Stuff Wouldn't it be amazing if you could make a machine that would make 3D models of phenomena otherwise invisible to you? It's fun to do, and it's is an amazing creative process to create a machine that produces something that you can hold in your hand from the invisible - and it's surprisingly easy. In this video I'll show you how to use simple materials to create some unexpected results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ralph Taylor: Dressing Detroit for Mardi Gras We drop by the design studio of Ralph Taylor, who creates brilliant, bold, colorful and creative costumes for Mardi Gras and carnival celebrations. Originally from Trinidad, Ralph made his way to Detroit where he still practices the craft he picked up while growing up and traveling through the Caribbean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Ultimate Kit Guide 2012: “Kits and Revolution” Podcast At MAKE, we're crazy for kits. That's why we just produced a special issue that's all about kits, our Ultimate Kit Guide 2012, and are also launching a new website dedicated to kit reviews, at kits.makezine.com. Available at newsstands nationwide, the Ultimate Kit Guide includes nearly 200 reviews of top kits ranging from beginner's crafts to wooden kayaks to advanced robotics to alcoholic beverages and everything in between. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Schematics Schematics are the functional diagram of electronic circuits. With so many designs available on the web, understanding how to read schematics can unlock a world of possibilities for the electronics maker. In fact, if you can read a schematic, you can build a circuit before even understanding how it works! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mannequin Forest: A Cyborg Menagerie Kristine Diven and Micho Detronik of District VII explain the interactive elements of their art installation at Maker Faire Detroit 2011. Art and electronics collide in a project which explores surveillance and humanity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Ultimate Kit Episode 11/9/11 (video) Make: Live‘s Ultimate Kit Episode celebrates the upcoming release of the Special Issue, The Ultimate Kit Guide. Ariel Churi from Sparkle Labs stepped in for Becky as guest co-host. MIT Research Fellow Michael Schrage talked about how kits drive innovation. The Make Labs interns checked in with their kit reviews, including a few siege and ballistics kits (above) and Ariel and Matt played with a few electronics kits in studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live’s Ultimate Kit Episode (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! This episode is our Ultimate Kit Episode, in honor of the new Special Issue of MAKE, The Ultimate Kit Guide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3-DIY: Eric Kurland (video) Eric Kurland makes DIY stereoscopic (3D) cameras and displays from off-the-shelf components. He runs a 3D film festival in Los Angeles and showed off his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 in a special 3D village. Subscribe to the Maker Faire Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Authors of Arduino Bots and Gadgets at Maker Faire Kimmo Karvinen and Tero Karvinen are the authors of Arduino Bots and Gadgets, a primer on how to integrate many types of electronic hardware into the Arduino physical computing platform. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Tero talked to us about the advantages of prototyping with the Arduino for electronics projects. He also told us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sarah Lapinski: Detroit’s Seamstress-Engineer Sarah Lapinski of Wound Menswear shows us her studio and talks about her love of highways and cities, especially Detroit. A unique twist on fashion, Wound is a line that speaks to those who appreciate, but aren't obsessed with, fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liquid Robotics’ Waveglider Plumbs the Depths Liquid Robotics' Waveglider is an autonomous submersible that explores the ocean using the power of the sun and waves. As Roger Hine explains at Bay Area Maker Faire 2011, the Waveglider can either traverse the waters on its own, converting the up-and-down motion of the waves into forward propulsion, or can be controlled remotely by a user with a GPS satellite link. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liquid Robotics’ Waveglider Plumbs the Depths Liquid Robotics' Waveglider is an autonomous submersible that explores the ocean using the power of the sun and waves. As Roger Hine explains at Bay Area Maker Faire 2011, the Waveglider can either traverse the waters on its own, converting the up-and-down motion of the waves into forward propulsion, or can be controlled remotely by a user with a GPS satellite link. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zachary Rukstela Talks Kinetic Steamworks Zachary Rukstela of Kinetic Steamworks considers himself the steward of the pieces of vintage steam technology he owns. He operates a steam powered vehicle at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, and explains his background in steam, from growing up on a farm, to working on a WWII era steam powered destroyer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zachary Rukstela Talks Kinetic Steamworks Zachary Rukstela of Kinetic Steamworks considers himself the steward of the pieces of vintage steam technology he owns. He operates a steam powered vehicle at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, and explains his background in steam, from growing up on a farm, to working on a WWII era steam powered destroyer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kinect Robots & Gadgeteer: Microsoft at Maker Faire (video) See what Microsoft had to offer in their tent at World Maker Faire New York 2011. Microsoft sponsors Maker Faire and we're excited to see them embrace the maker movement. Since bringing their Gadgeteer prototyping platform to Maker Faire last year, they've seen makers start using their .NET-programmable modular devices, inspiring them to make the hardware more widely available. Microsoft also brought their Kinect robots built on the Robotics Developer Studio 4 platform. They're running a co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: Infrared Light, sponsored by Jameco Electronics Infrared light may be invisible to the human eye, but its usefulness in the world of electronics is easy to see. From simple object sensors to wireless data transmission, IR emitters & detectors can be used in a variety of different ways - and their low cost and wide availability makes them a great choice for enhancing an electronics project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Digital Game Museum: Ben Wilhelm (video) The Digital Game Museum is dedicated to the preservation of video games. As Ben Wilhelm explains at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, the memory of many video games has fallen by the wayside, and proper documentation of them is important since they've now become a part of our technological history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawn Thorsson’s Props and Costumes: Shawn Thorsson (video) Shawn Thorsson explains the build process for his props and costumes at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. First he starts with a digital 3D model, then cuts the pieces out with a CNC machine, assembles them and fine tunes with wood shaping techniques, then casts molds so he can reproduce them. The result are authentic looking reproductions of popular costumes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosthetic Sculpture: Ira Sherman (video) Ira Sherman is an artist who sculpts work that has been shown worldwide in museums such as the Smithsonian. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 he brings structures that are created from tubular frames in curvilinear shapes that are meant to fit the contours of the human body. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make Glowing Kryptonite Candy Learn how to make candy glow under UV by adding vitamin B2! In this Halloween episode of Becky's Workshop, we whip up some kryptonite candy, as seen in BrittLiv's Instructable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgia Street Community Collective (video) A chance meeting with the EastSide Riders Bike Club leads us to the Georgia Street Community Center. Both organizations are dedicated to improving their community, through education, gardening, and neighborhood involvement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Halloween Party 10/26/11 (video) Make: Live's Halloween bash featured action stylist Anney Fresh, electrically-enhanced pumpkins aka "hack-o-lanterns", and a costume parade by attendees at the party hosted by MakerBot in Brooklyn, NY. Matt and Becky open the show with an homage to The X-Files. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lil Ju Ju Pinball Museum: Michael Schiess (video) Michael Schiess shows the exhibits in his Lil Juju Mobile Pinball Museum. The centerpiece on display at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 is his vintage machine that's been refitted completely in clear plexiglass, so that attendees can see the inner workings of the pinball machine while its being played. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EMSL’s Digi Comp II (video) The Digi Comp II is a replica of a binary mechanical computer that can perform basic mathematical functions. As shown by Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, it uses billiard balls as its counters and performs calculations in real time as the balls make their transit down a ramp with specially places guides and levers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Posables Perfect for Spookifying the Front Yard Tony Regalbuto's father has a penchant for decorating the family's front yard with whimsical, sometimes frightening, humanoid decorations. Many of the characters are based around Posables, a system of configurable mannequins demonstrated at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. These seem to be the perfect template for creating scary (animatronic?) ghouls, monsters, and goblins for this Halloween season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cardboard Periscope – Sylvia’s Mini Maker Show Today we’re diving deep for an easy build you can do in an afternoon: your very own cardboard periscope. Let’s go! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live’s Halloween Party (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! We're having a Halloween party at MakerBot and we'll share the best DIY Halloween projects with you live from the festivities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Lipton of Fab@Home on 3D Printing Jeffrey Lipton of Fab@Home demonstrates their 3D printing system at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. This open source personal manufacturing machine can print with many different materials from plastic to cookie dough. When used in a classroom, Fab@Home furthers STEM education by making students comfortable with the software, hardware, fabrication, and materials. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calliope #5: Ed Haas (video) Ed Haas shows his Calliope #5, a handmade pyrophone, at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Controlled by a midi keyboard, this wind instrument is similar to an organ, but has the ability to shoot fire if propane gas is used in addition to air when sounding the pipes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VJacket: Tyler Freeman (video) Tyler Freeman hacked his clothes and created a jacket that transforms movement into video performance art. The VJacket senses gestures and then uses that information to create complicated visuals right from the dance floor. Filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Three Servos Walking Robot (video) How do you make a walking biped robot, with only three servos? Without saying a word, Frits Lyneborg from letsmakerobots.com shows you his inventive way of doing just that! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have Your Recliner and Ride It, Too (video) Inspired by his friend's couch on wheels, William Keller built this motorized La-Z-Boy to get around the Playa at Burning Man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Class Hydroponics: STEM Garden Bronx schoolgirls demonstrate their solutions for vertical hydroponic gardens in NYC apartment buildings to the crowd at World Maker Faire NY 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Arduino 03 This month's Latest in Arduino episode is out. This episode features the Arduino ethernet, I solder up the mini fume extractor, and we discuss a new book about Arduino robots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Black Hole” Whirlpool by Michael Yates (video) The Black Hole is an elevated whirlpool built by Michael Yates. Visitors at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 climbed up the stairs to witness the balance of gravity and centripetal force as they stared down into the vortex. Subscribe to the Maker Faire Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glass Blowing Demonstrations by The Crucible As an industrial and fine arts education center in the Bay Area, The Crucible was the perfect group to show Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 attendees demonstrations in welding, blacksmithing, and glass flameworking. Kier Lugo from the Crucible gave our cameras a close-up look at what goes into creating a beautiful piece of glassware from just a molten glob of the material. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 28: Toys & Games MAKE Volume 28 hits makers' passion for play head-on with a 28-page special section devoted to Toys and Games, including a toy "pop-pop" steamboat made from a mint tin, an R/C helicopter eye-in-the-sky, and a classic video game console. You'll also build a gravity-powered catapult, a plush toy that interacts with objects around it, and a machine that blows giant soap bubbles. Play time is a hallmark of more intelligent species-- so go have some fun! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Front Porch: Zac Carroll (video) Zac Carroll and his team created a moveable Front Porch that is towed by a vintage tractor. He brought this creation, complete with all sorts of nostalgic reminders of domesticity, to Maker Faire Bay Area and demonstrates its early 20th century period styling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mechanical Swamp Kirin Lumbers Around Maker Faire Haley Who, as liaison for the Seabat family, guides the Mechanical Swam Kirin around Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. According to Haley’s story, Evrin Seabat spotted a Swamp Kirin in Japan and brought back documentation of it. His son Seth wanted one for himself, but since it would be impossible to have one of his own, his older sister Halo created a mechanical version for him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ArcAttack! at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 (video) Joe and John DiPrima's ArcAttack! is a performance group that creates electrifying melodies by controlling the frequency sweep on their solid state Tesla coil. This is accompanied by a full drum set that's controlled electrically through a series of rotary solenoids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 10/12/11 — Toys & Games (video) Make: Live episode 18 featured makers in MAKE v28, the toys & games issue! Onyx Ashanti performs and talks Xbees and sensors, and Michael Colombo explains his reflective improvement to flashlight tag. David Harris made Charlie's bear (above), originally designed for his nephew with cerebral palsy. It's a location aware plush toy with an embedded RFID reader, speaker, Arduino and wave shield to play sounds when it interacts with objects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cupcake Cars by Acme Muffineering (video) Lisa Pongrace's cupcake cars are powered by electric motors, and evolved from a costume idea for Burning Man. After building the first prototype, her friends wanted their own mobile muffins and helped create a fleet of confectionery art cars, now known as Acme Muffineering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Uira Engine: Alan Rorie (video) The Uira Engine is a part of the guts from the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, which now resides in San Francisco's Embarcadero. For Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, the engine was displayed by its designer, Alan Rorie. The engine consists of a series of cylinders that slowly rotate while emitting capacitive discharge that's pleasing to the eye. Parts of this were handmade as well as produced from a CNC, and provided an important visual component to the rocket ship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nor Cal Mars Rover Project: Jon Cox (video) Jon Cox shows the Nor Cal Mars Rover Project at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. This group of enthusiasts is dedicated to furthering the cause of making manned missions to Mars with the possibility of colonization in the future. NASA approached the group to design and build a prototype for a future Mars mission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The R2D2 Builders Club at Maker Faire (video) allowfullscreen> The R2D2 Builder's Club brings one of the world's most beloved fictional robots to life. Steve Simmons and his hobby roboticist club use fabrication, programming, and remote controls to build exact replicas of R2D2. Their R2's are quirky friends who roamed Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 delighting everyone they encountered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 18: Toys & Games (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 18 celebrates the release of the new MAKE magazine, all about toys and games you can make yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects If you have a simple Arduino project that uses only a few pins, you might be able to shrink it down to a single 8-pin ATtiny chip. In this video, Matt shows you how, based on a tutorial from MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech Group. The best part is you can use the same Arduino code and development environment that you're already used to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simple Bots: Randy Sarafan (video) Randy Sarafan started Simple Bots on a bet. A coworker wanted a simple introduction to robotics, so Randy set out to prove that he could build a functioning robot in ten minutes. This was the impetus for a family of bots shown at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 that can be easily made from a variety of parts that are on hand for the average DIY enthusiast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Simpson’s Bug-in-a-Book Kit for Covert Listening David Simpson was contacted by MAKE to create a spying device for MAKE Volume 16, so he came up with the Bug-In-A-Book project, a hacked together wireless listening device embedded in a hollowed out book. As Simpson explains at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, a project using scavenged technology has flowered into a product with a kit that DIY folks can build and experience for themselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DNA Makers: Dawei Lin (video) Dawei Lin studies DNA at UC, but also started building Lego models of DNA as a teaching tool for his young daughter. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 he displays the various DNA models he's made, while explaining that the act of construction can often be the most valuable learning tool for many different topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Automatic Media Deactivation System (video) Jake Ketchum's Automatic Media Deactivation System attaches to a standard power strip and shuts off all power to a room's electronics when its smart sensor detects that a person is no longer in the room. When someone re-enters, the system is switched back on. He demonstrated his invention at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PhoneSat Aims to Send a Cellphone into Space (video) At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Ben demonstrates PhoneSat, a project in conjunction with NASA done to prove that a cellphone can serve as a viable CPU in an orbital satellite. The Nexus One on board uses the Android OS and is monitored by an Arduino that also serves as a rebooting device. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Electronics Tools I've amassed a decent collection of tools since I started working in electronics - some useful & some that seemed useful at the time of acquisition. Not surprisingly, it's the basics that prove indispensable - and the above video gives you my take on what those are exactly. Here's hoping it helps get a few newcomers properly geared up - and maybe put a smile on the face of a few seasoned solderers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Higher: Benjamin Carpenter (video) Artist Benjamin Carpenter explores interactions between systems in his mechanical kinetic sculpture "Higher". At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 he demonstrates the work, consisting of 3 vertically oscillating eyeballs atop springs. The movement is controlled by a single button the user presses which activates the piece's mechanism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Backyard Chemistry at Maker Faire Bay Area With over 200,000 views, Hayden Parker’s YouTube channel has become a popular spot for watching home chemistry demonstrations. Hayden took his show on the road to Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, where he set up a basic chemistry lab, teaching the science of chemistry and wowing passerby with seemingly magic color-changing chemical reactions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bay Area Lego Users Group, BAYLUG (video) The Bay Area Lego Users Group builds creations of every size and type imaginable, exclusively using Lego blocks. From entire neighborhoods of buildings, to a scale reproduction of the battleship Yamato, they had plenty on hand to show at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. At their meetings they often have competitions to test their building prowess, in events such as coaster cars and structural stability on their very own "earthquake table." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Simple Copper Etching – Sylvia’s Mini Maker Show Did you ever want to upgrade your bread-boarded circuits to something more permanent? Or maybe you’ve got a hankering to make your own metal jewelry? Today we’ll show you how you can do both! With super simple copper etching! Lets go! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fun Bike Unicorn Club: Todd Barricklow (video) Fun Bike Unicorn Club - Todd Barricklow , through the Fun Bike Unicorn Club, works metal into unique pedal-powered vehicles. His designs often start from just a sketch, and completed through a process of trial-and-error. He came to Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 to ride his creations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 9/28/11 — 3D Modeling & Printing (video) Make: Live episode 17 features 3D modeling and printing and was live from the MakerBot workshop in Brooklyn, NY. Learn about the software and hardware toolchain for realizing your imagination in 3D objects in this archived episode. In the clip above, MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis talks about exciting developments in their extruder technology and fields 3D printing questions from the audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cycling Stunt Men Prove Their Mettle in the Whiskey Drome The cycling madmen of Whiskeydrunk Cycles, part of Fun Bike Unicorn Club, set up their Whiskey Drome at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. In the vide above, Joshua Thwaites and Joey Caster tell us about the inspiration for this barrel-shaped arena while cycling daredevils perform dangerously fun stunts along the perimeter of the drome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arduino Cookbook Author Michael Mari (video) Michael Mari wrote Arduino Cookbook, a collection of projects utilizing the physical computing platform of Arduino. He was on hand at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 to discuss Arduino and his book published by O'Reilly Media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyto Alba: Brother John and Sister Sharon (video) Tyto Alba is an art car made from the remnants of 25 bicycles, along with an owl figurehead fashioned from leather feathers. Brother John and Sister Sharon combine their skills of mechanical engineering and leather shoemaking to showcase their creation at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Music Box: Joe Sooch (video) Joe Sooch designed and built the New Music Box, an automated musical instrument that blends old and new technology that produces percussive music through solenoids and a sequencer. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, the Music Box drummed rhythms, noise, and musical notes for passersby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 17: 3D Modeling & Printing (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 16 is all about 3D modeling and printing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 17: 3D Modeling & Printing (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 16 is all about 3D modeling and printing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laser Craze: Nick Leindecker (video) Nick Leindecker of the Stanford Optical Society shows Laser Craze, a laser cutter that is controlled by two knobs much in the way an Etch a Sketch works. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 he allowed attendees to try out his invention on various burnable surfaces, while also showing his LED creations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hacked Knitting Machine Depicts Cosby’s Face (video) CRAFT sure had a great time at World Maker Faire last weekend. Here's a highlight: Andrew Salomone uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to "print" digital images into knitted garments. At World Maker Faire New York 2011, Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby's face. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FTCquel: Mark Edelman (video) Mark Edelman from NorCalFTC shows the competition area for a yearly teen program in robotics. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, student teams used their engineering and technology skills to pit their creations against one another in the final tech challenge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Drifting Robot Car (video) Learn how to make a drifting robot car with a few cheap components and some simple code in this tutorial episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cigar Box Fiddles by Xylocopa Design Among other whimsical items, Xylocopa Design fabricates unique musical instruments, such as this 5 stringed boxy fiddle. These creations were born from Michele’s practice in musical instrument repair and grew into the design of completely new instruments that she demonstrated for delighted visitors at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fire Jam – Saphira: Alex Jacobson, John Boyer, and Sam Frank (video) The Young Makers Program at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 produced two interesting projects by Alex Jacobson, John Boyer, and Sam Frank. Saphira is an animatronic fire-breathing dragon, and Fire Jam is a visualization device for the Rock Band video game that selectively shoots five jets of flame that correspond to the buttons on the guitar controller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rock the Bike: Paul Freedman (video) Paul Freedman throws conscious hip hop concerts by turning alternative transportation into alternative energy. Rock the Bike brings funky beats and sound gear to any venue, then sets up stationary bikes that are converted into electricity generators. Audience members take turns pedaling to generate all the amplification needed for the entire show at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 9/16/11 — Maker Faire NY & The Makeys Awards (video) In episode 16 we met makers live from World Maker Faire NY 2011 and announced the winners of the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards. Twelve companies were nominated in four categories on which MAKE readers voted. And the winners are: Most Hackable Gadget – Microsoft Kinect accepted by Stewart Tansley Most Repair Friendly – PanaVise [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RAMPs: John Schimmel (video) John Schimmel teaches the Assistive Technology class at NYU's ITP program. The RAMPs project allows a wheelchair-bound DJ to roll up to a stationary set of rollers that are connected to rotary encoders attached to an Arduino. The interpreted data is then sent to a Processing sketch and used to blend or scratch audio tracks in real time. This device was created in 2005 for an individual with cerebral palsy who had a talent for rapping and also needed to hone his wheelchair skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool Neon: Benny James: (video) Entrepreneur Benny James runs Cool Neon, a Burning Man-inspired business supplying electroluminescent wire to artists and electronics makers. He has seen his business flourish as he enables costume makers, festival vehicle designers, and hobbyists to add bright light-up lines of color to their projects since 1999. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, they debuted their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website littleBits: Ayah Bdeir littleBits is a system of electronic parts for play and prototyping. Designed for children, artists, or anyone shy about soldering, littleBits make electronics easy, fun, fast and accessible. Ayah Bdeir talks about her simple and intriguing system of magnetically connected, expandable electronics. Subscribe to the Maker Faire podcast in iTunes, download the m4v directly, or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fire-breathing Gon KiRin Coming to World Maker Faire (video) Meet Ryan Doyle, the co-creator of Gon KiRin, a 69' fire-breathing dragon. Ryan learned to create in many mediums while working in his grandmother's doll hospital, and took his recycled art-car-dragon to Detroit to finish it amid the artifacts of American auto manufacturing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Praxis Zero: Andrew Benson (video) Andrew Benson's Praxis Zero guitars are modular frameworks for guitars that can have interchangeable bodies, and can have their specs easily changed to suit the needs of the player. All the parts are sculpted with a CNC router and were on display at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MakerBot Turtle Shell Racers MakerBot shows off the 3D printed turtle shell RC cars they are bringing to World Maker Faire NY this weekend. There has been quite a bit of excitement over at the Botcave since Thingiverse user Skimbal launched his Turtle Shell Racers project (High and Low Power Edition). His project is both a love note to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Museum of Interesting Things: Denny Daniel Denny Daniel is the creator and curator of the Museum of Interesting Things. At first glance these mundane objects from throughout history seem disjointed and random, until you realize that the common thread is inspiration and innovation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mapbag: Josh Billions (video) Josh Billions demonstrates the Mapbag at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It is a bicycle messenger bag with a ring of vibrating motors sewn into its strap, whose positions correspond to compass points. This soft circuit project uses a Lilypad in conjunction with the gps feature in an Iphone, allowing the user to set a destination and be given constant haptic feedback through the fabric in order to stay on course and in the right direction. This acts as an exploratory wayfinding tool - a fun and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Atari Punk Console A true classic for DIY synth makers and circuit benders, the Atari Punk Console can kick out some ear-catching square waves. It's easy to build and a lot of fun to play around with. It may be challenging to make traditional music with an APC, but hey-, there's enough of that around already, right? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Glenn Derry’s Workshop (video) Avatar's special effects innovator Glenn Derry hacks together blockbuster filmmaking tools. Learn more about his workshop and homebrew virtual camera in MAKE v27. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lasersaur: Addie and Stefan (video) Addie and Stefan demonstrate Lasersaur at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Lasersaur is an open source laser cutter the team made after learning a laser cutter would be cost prohibitive for them personally. Using easily reproducible parts, the Lasersaur is intended to be built by other users and subsequently improved upon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 16: Makeys & World Maker Faire NY (preview video) Join us Friday for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Makers from all over the world are converging on New York City for World Maker Faire New York this weekend at The New York Hall of Science in Queens. We’ll be announcing the winners of the first annual MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards and meet makers who'll show at the Faire on a special Friday episode of Make: Live. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robotic B.A.R.Tender: Jason Gouw (video) Jason Gouw shows his prototype for the Robotic B.A.R.Tender at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Intended to aid a human bartender in the mixing of standard drinks, this robot holds bottles of liquor upside down and pours the proper amounts based on which drink is inputted by the user. Subscribe to the Maker Faire Podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wood Bikes: Art You Can Ride Bill Patchett and Bill Holloway create complete bike frames out of wood, following the entire process from felling a tree in the urban forest, to shaping and finishing it. This creative example of reuse becomes a piece of rolling art at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nemo Gould’s Homunculus Sculpture (video) Nemo Gould brings Homunculus to Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 – a garbage robot fashioned from carefully selected reused parts. The head is a recycled voltmeter that’s been flipped upside down, and his guts include woodwind parts and vacuum tubes. Gould maintains an extensive collection of junk that inform his pieces. Subscribe to the MAKE [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix TieLab (video) Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix TieLab recently acquired a stash of old used silkscreens to be reclaimed and reused to print her tie designs. But a closer inspection revealed something too interesting to wash out, and these industrial cast-offs generate some truly unique ties. Check out Bethany's ties at Maker Faire New York September 17th and 18th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s a Hackerspace? Mitch Altman Explains (video) Mitch Altman, founder of NoiseBridge hackerspace in San Francisco, talks at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 about how spaces like his are allowing creative expression all over the world. Hackers at NoiseBridge conduct biology experiments and hacked a wheelchair to be controlled by computer, phone, and even one’s own brain waves. Subscribe to the MAKE [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monochron Clock Kit – Sylvia’s Mini Maker Show It's time to make another kit from Adafruit, the alarmingly awesome Monochron clock kit. Lets go! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Mutopia Pods: Flaming Lotus Girls (video) The Flaming Lotus Girls create metal machines that are beautiful to look at, but often spit fire as well. Margaret Long and her all-female group of fabricators brought their Three Mutopia Pods to Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Ruth Schulz Interview at FOO Camp At FOO Camp 2011, Dr. Ruth Schulz from University of Queensland discusses Lingodroids, robots that can generate their own language that allows them to communicate with each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Potentially Annoying Sound Isn’t so Bad After All Chris McMullen and Steve Withycombe’s Potentially Annoying Sound is a kinetic sound sculpture constructed from various mechanical elements and a set of discarded church organ pipes. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, attendees delightfully turned a large red wheel which was geared to pump air from a bellows into the pipes and play a chord. Interestingly, the name “Potentially Annoying Sound” was inspired by a question on the Maker Faire exhibitor application which asked what kind of noise ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Drawing Machine: Harvey Moon (video) Harvey Moon's Drawing Machine is, at its core, a pen attached to two belts that are both suspending it over a page and controlling its movements. Taking its cues from computer data, the Drawing Machine can reproduce any digitized picture or photograph, except the results are more akin to print-making in that every creation is unique with its own idiosyncrasies. Filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Systematic Annihilation of Helpless Objects Via Robot (video) The Systematic Annihilation of Helpless Objects Via Robot is an arena full of machines that spew fire and destroy home appliances and other detritus that would normally be relegated to the trash. Justin Gray's creations are built from and inspired by vintage machinery. They pump their metal muscles for the crowd in this video from Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aperion: Charles Gadeken Charles Gadeken demonstrates Aperion, a large sculpture depicting a flower resting on three large leaves. Aperion is a large tesla coil which processes sound into electrical impulses. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 he uses an electric guitar as a controller for the massive Tesla coils that are part of Aperion. The sculpture detects the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Krunk Bunk (Micro Sleep-Loft) – Tiny Yellow House Here's another video of one of the many projects I've been messing with lately, its a legless bunk set-up called "The Krunk Bunk" that was one of two projects we took on in our Relax Shacks July Tiny Housing/Shelter/Building workshop in MA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Krunk Bunk (Micro Sleep-Loft) – Tiny Yellow House Here's another video of one of the many projects I've been messing with lately, its a legless bunk set-up called "The Krunk Bunk" that was one of two projects we took on in our Relax Shacks July Tiny Housing/Shelter/Building workshop in MA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Typewriter Assemblage: Jeremy Mayer Jeremy Mayer's typewriter assemblages are sculptural pieces made purely from typewriter parts. In a process he calls "reassemblage", Mayer fits the pieces together into likenesses of living creatures using no welds, glue, solder, or external parts. He taks about and shoe his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 8/24/11 — Make Labs (video) Episode 15 was live from Make Labs in Sebastopol, California. The interns show off projects from the magazine and their own creations, like Dan Spangler's combustion cannon called "Big Bertha." Max Heald shows us his in-progress electric wheelchair robot, and Brookelynn Morris brings her LED hula hoop and puts the staff to the hula challenge. Get a tour of the lab from Nick Raymond and meet more folks who make the magazine and projects you love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 19 Chris the Carpenter is giving his wife a ride, Jaimie's robot is bigger than him, MarkusB keeps launching rockets, Stoerpeak has made a cheap robot arm that can copy moves, and LMR is written in sweets by mogul's m&m sorter #3. All this in what will be the last weekly version of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, as we're changing the format of the show to be a monthly tutorial video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opabinia Regalis: A Pyrotechnical Precambrian Pedal Car The day before Maker Faire Bay Area opened, we ran into Kurt and Bobbi Pires putting the finishing touches on a unique quadricycle in the South Lot of the fairgrounds. Dubbed Opabinia Regalis, the vehicle is named after an extinct Precambrian creature and has now been reborn as an angry, fire-spewing art bike. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russell the Electric Giraffe (video) During Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, we caught up with Lindsy Lawlor, creator of one of the most popular attractions at the Faire-- Russell the electric giraffe. With the help of his English programmer, also named Russell, the rolling, walking, talking giraffe bot gets better every year with new sounds, touch sensors, and lights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Heat Lava Lamp – Sylvia’s Mini Maker Show Today we’ll show you how to make your own groovy lava lamp, no heat required! All you need are a few things you just might have in your kitchen. Lets go! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website D.I.Y. Flame Tree: Brett Levine (video) Brett Levine has been fascinated by fire since he was a boy, coming close to setting his house on fire several times during his learning process. His latest creation, the DIY Flame Tree, is a freeform construction of copper tubing with gaseous vents that can be lit for visual effect. Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 participants were invited to created their own additions to the work and then stand behind the fence to watch the pyrotechnic results of their labors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 15: Make Labs (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 15 is live from Make Labs in Sebastopol California. The interns will show off projects from the magazine and their own creations, like Dan Spangler’s combustion cannon called “Big Bertha.” We’re also going to fire up the bubble [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metalheads at Maker Faire Detroit Joe Sandor and the crew from Chicago Crucible demonstrate an iron pour at Maker Faire Detroit 2011. These metalheads collected metal from old radiators and coke from a Detroit power plant and then fired up the furnace. They poured the molten steel into a watermelon and other decorative molds, which were created at the Faire. Learn more about the lost art of the iron pour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EconoSpazzi Robot Andrew Terranova from Let's Make Robots mods the Spazzi Robot project from MAKE 27 to use less expensive solenoids. He calls it the EconoSpazzi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enough Already: The Arduino Solution to Overexposed Celebs I don’t know about you, but I’m a little sick of hearing about the same people on TV over and over again. I came up with this Arduino-based solution to mute my TV so that I don’t have to hear about Donald Trump’s feud with whomever or Charlie Sheen’s most recent rant. Using the Video [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Awesome Sylvia Shows How to Build the LOL Shield Kit Super Awesome Sylvia is back with an all new video about the LOL Shield! Take it away, Sylvia! For this build, we’re laughing out loud at how many LEDs we’re going to solder in for the LOL (Lots of LEDs) Shield by our good buddy, Jimmie Rodgers! Let’s go! For this blinky build, we’ll need: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 8/10/11 — Metalworking (video) Make: Live episode 14 is all about metalworking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 14: Metalworking (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 14 is all about Metalworking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LED Shoe Clips Make Your Toes Twinkle Twinkle toes! Make LED ruffles to customize your shoes in this CRAFT video. This easy soft circuit project can get you started in wearable electronics and even may help you find your way in a dark parking lot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video Interview with David Ten Have of Ponoko David Ten Have from Ponoko visted the MAKE offices in Sebastopol, CA recently, and Dale Dougherty conducted this video interview. Ponoko accepts plans for 2D and 3D parts bundled with electronics and other products to bring access to hard-to-find tools to makers through the mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 16 Do you know how to make a robot, and could you come up with 100 inspiring ideas for cool robot projects? In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits is taking up the challenge, starting out with the basics of robot building, and quickly moving on to something as cool as inventing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 7/29/11 — Maker Faire Detroit (video) Live from the The Henry Ford in Detroit, Make: Live episode 13 gives you a small taste of what you’ll find in the Motor City’s own incarnation of Maker Faire, the world’s largest DIY festival. In this highlight, Greg Gage from Backyard Brains demonstrates their SpikerBox kit, which lets you experiment with cockroach neurons. Becky [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 15 Multicopters is an exciting new area of hobby robotics. They are also sometimes known as UAV’s, and essentially they are “flying hobby robots.” They are made with a center that holds micro controllers, sensors, receivers, transmitters, power and payload. Pointing out from the center are a number of pins holding motors and propellers. This is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 13: Maker Faire Detroit (preview video) The next episode of our streaming show and tell Make: Live is a special broadcast from Maker Faire Detroit, live from the Henry Ford this Friday. Join us as we celebrate the kickoff of a weekend of making in the Mitten at the worlds largest DIY festival. Make: Live 13 – Maker Faire Detroit Friday [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: PVC and Cable Dyeing I’m not surprised about the popularity of Sean Michael Ragan’s PVC dyeing technique write-up on Make: Projects. So many projects we feature use this boring white pipe because of its low price, widespread availability, and versatility. Since PVC doesn’t take paint very well, this PVC dyeing technique is perfect for adding those crucial finishing touches [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJ Sures’ Hacked Toy Robots (video) Watching an animated robot is certainly amusing, but interacting with a robot is an experience! you can make interactive robots with unique personalities out of many common toys using the EZ-B Robot Controller. Check out the complete tutorial in MAKE v27. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 14 Walking on 2 feet is not that hard… or is it? The answer is “yes,” if you are a robot. Well, at least it’s an ongoing challenge. In this week’s edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and Frits are looking at some inspiring homemade biped robots. Here are links related to the show: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 7/13/11 — Robots (video) Make: Live episode 12 is all about robots, celebrating the release of MAKE v27. Our guests Simone Davalos, Andrew Terranova, and Tim Laursen brought the house down! Tim Laursen performs in-studio with his incredible Robot Drummers, and Andrew Terranova from Let’s Make Robots shows off his impressive collection of homemade bots. Catch up on video [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Blue Crab” One-Sheet Plywood Boat – Tiny Yellow House For this episode of “Tiny Yellow House” for Make Magazine, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen pulls another idea from his book Humble Homes, Simple Shacks. This time, its an easy wooden boat made from little more than one sheet of plywood. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 12: Robots (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 12 is all about DIY robots to celebrate the upcoming release of MAKE Volume 27. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Arduino 02 This month's Latest in Arduino episode is out. Host James Floyd Kelly discusses a new Arduino book, solders up the Maker Shield, and discusses Arduino-controlled robots with J. D. and Josh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: Fiber Optics, sponsored by Jameco Electronics Not all electronic signals are communicated via electricity. By transmitting information in the form of light, we can avoid many limitations inherent to traditional wiring. And on top of all those benefits - fiber optics are just straight-up cool! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 13 In this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and Frits are looking at a big question in life: “Why build a robot?” And they have at least one fun reason: Solve a challenge. Frits’s favorite challenge is discussed in the show: Crossing the Gap Challenge Also in this show, is featured music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Resistor Necktie In this episode of Becky’s Workshop on CRAFT, learn to construct a basic long necktie with stripes to represent your favorite value of resistor – fashion inspired by the electronics bench! Learn to work with slippery fabrics cut on the bias. In addition to the video, you can find a full step-by-step tutorial for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skill Builder: Caffenol Homebrew Film Developer Only recently did I find out that you can develop negative film with instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda. This homebrew developer has become known as “caffenol” and there are plenty of photographers out there who have used this method in the darkroom. I read up on a few different recipes and tried my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 12 In this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits and Andrew are looking at an interesting home made project: An environmental homemade robot, with some interesting moves, plus it’s own oxygen, hydrogen tank hooked up to a fuel cell. Finally there is a tip from OddBot on how to use the reset button [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Switches Easily overlooked, but elemental to electronics hardware, the manually operated switch is the simplest of electromechanical devices -- and likely the most familiar. While the most basic switch is... well, quite basic, there's a crazy-huge variety of switch types and sizes available to the electronics maker nowadays. Those new to the soldering and schematics scene will surely benefit from an introduction to some of the terms and formats relevant to various switch species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 11 In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots. Here are links related to the show: Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot Wikipedia on steampunk Robot 2 by Axbri Ant’s robots PetToyBot by mrkiss Learn how to make a robot Subscribe to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 6/22/11 — Photo and Video (video) Make: Live episode 11 is all about photography and video. We take you on a behind-the-scenes tour and show how we put together Make: Live. Matt Griffin from MakerBot shows us how they make timelapse movies of 3D printers doing their thing. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Bottle Cutting With a bottle cutting jig, you can easily recycle your used glass bottles into reusable drinking glasses or flower vases. After scoring the glass with the jig, there are a few different ways to make a clean break. In this video, I show how to do this using a candle flame and a piece of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 11: Photo and Video (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep11 is all about photography and video. We’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how we put together Make: Live and Matt Griffin from MakerBot will show us how they make their timelapse movies of 3D printers doing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 10 What type of robot builder are you? Find out in this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, where Frits has Jax from California as a guest. Here are links related to the video: Test yourself: Arty or Techie Gareth’s robot fireflies Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 6/08/11 — Hackerspace Roadshow (video) Make: Live episode 10 is our first Hackerspace Roadshow! Thanks to our guests from Twin Cities Maker, Milwaukee Makerspace, i3Detroit, and Noisebridge. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 10 in its entirety (m4v or Vimeo). Also check out the chat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 09 Welcome to this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, where Frits and Andrew are taking a fast tour of 10 cool hobby robot projects! Here are links to the projects in the video: CNC machine v2.1 – aka “Valkyrie Reloaded” Z-39 – made by CNC HXT900 Hexapod DAGU Robot Arm with Roboduino Control [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The GottaGiddaWay” Micro-Hut/Cabin – Tiny Yellow House “Tiny Yellow House” host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen gives MAKE a look at his brand new, multifaceted micro-structure/sleeper-cabin, “The GottaGiddaWay”- a homeless prototype built for $100.00. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Also, for a related-style/approach project- take a video tour of Deek’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TV-B-Gone Jacket Whenever I bring my TV-B-Gone out to restaurants, I look suspicious pointing it around. So I embedded the device into a jacket and turned it into a wearable TV silencer. For the switch, I sewed paths of conductive thread that become bridged by the metal zipper pull when it passes by. At the restaurant or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Bokeh Photography Effect “Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word for “blur” or “haze.” It’s used to describe the quality of the out of focus areas of a photograph. If you’ve ever read a photography forum, you’ll know that the word is often used to describe how a particular lens handles out of focus points of light. You can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 10: Hackerspace Roadshow (preview video) Join us Friday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep10 is our first ever Hackerspace Roadshow. Take a virtual road trip with us to five hackerspaces in five cities across the US to see their communities and projects. NYC Resistor Milwaukee Makerspace Twin Cities Maker at The Hack [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), sponsored by Jameco Electronics Another clever trick from the world of electronics – Pulse Width Modulation is a simple method for controlling analog devices via a digital signal. It’s also a very efficient way to drive motors, lamps, LEDs, & more. If you’ve ever faded an LED with an Arduino – you’ve used PWM. But you don’t need a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 08 In this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits and Andrew are looking at an interesting collaborative attempt for hobbyists to get together across the globe to build the most advanced amateur humanoid robot, followed by some inspiration to show you how easy it has become to work with GPS! Links related to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Get Started with Make: Projects For those of you eager to boast about your maker prowess, but haven’t yet tried Make: Projects, I encourage you to take a look at this video to introduce you to what the site is all about and how it works. Make: Projects is a constantly growing cookbook for makers, so even if you’re only [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest In Hobby Robotics 07 Frits Lyneborg is back in his workshop in Denmark, with his guest this week: Andrew “ignoblegnome” from New Jersey. The show is revealing great news for fans of The Yellow Drum Machine (tutorial in June’s upcoming MAKE Volume 27), and a look at a Matrix-inspired version of “The leave me alone box”. Links related to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 5/20/11 — Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 (video) Make: Live episode 09 was broadcasted from the grounds of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Thanks to our guests David Farish, Sung Kim, Jimmie Rodgers, Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen, Lindsay Lawlor, Gerard Nebesky, and our special guest host, Super Awesome Sylvia. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Heart of Maker Faire (video) In this short welcoming video about Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Dale Dougherty shares the true spirit of Maker Faire: play and exploration. It is but a preview of the 100 maker profile videos we will release over the next 100 days. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Faire Goat Eats Microphone Yesterday in Homegrown Village at Maker Faire, our video crew found themselves with a unique gear crisis. During an interview, a goat ate the antenna off the wireless microphone. OM NOM! Get ready for some awesome video maker profiles from Maker Faire coming soon. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time-Lapse Colossus Assembly Over two days, the massive Colossus sculpture was erected on the midway at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It reaches an impressive 70 feet into the sky and features three hanging boulders that rotate around the central support. We filmed this time-lapse to show you the impressive feats required to put together an installation of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the Makers: Todd Williams Todd Williams is jewelry maker with a fine hand, a sculpture maker with a wit, and a performer trickster. He might spend 200 or 300 hours perfecting one of his incredible Land Sharks but the real work comes when he brings them out to play. His sculptures are animations that interact with people at events [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the Makers: Jordan Champagne Jordan Champagne, owner of Happy Girl Kitchen, is a preservationist. She cherishes reclaimed wood, she only plays records in her shop, and she has a giant Velvet Elvis in her office. But her real skills are in preserving food. The things that she puts into jars are real, whole foods, that are often truly living. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 09: Maker Faire Bay Area (preview video) Join us Friday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep09 is live from the Maker Faire Bay Area pre-party. We’ll be right next to the Colossus sculpture, where makers eat and drink to celebrate the weekend’s upcoming events. Make: Live 09 – Maker Faire Bay Area Special date: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 Editor’s Picks and Preview Video Preview some of the exciting projects upcoming at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 in this preview video by MAKE video intern Cameron Caywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 5/11/11 — Brewing Beer and Coffee (video) Make: Live ep08 is all about brewing beer and coffee. Thanks to our guests Diane Gilleland, John Park, Douglas Amport, and John LaPolla. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 08 in its entirety (m4v or Vimeo), or watch clips on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet The Makers: Christina McFall Christina McFall is obsessed with color, texture, form, and chemical reactions. She approaches the art of cyanotype printing with the mind of a scientist, carefully recording tests and cataloging results. She hand draws and tessellates patterns with her tablet to produce her negatives. Her innovative printing methods harness UV light to create Prussian Blue prints [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet The Makers: Maurice Connolly Maurice Connolly built a 300 lb steel sculpture and dropped it off a cliff. He pitted his art against gravity, just to see what would happen. The piece is a massive sphere called Ganymede- constructed from recycled wine barrel hoops and hundreds and hundreds of bolts. Once Maurice mastered the material and perfected the form, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 08: Brewing Beer & Coffee (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep08 is all about brewing- beer and coffee. Make: Live 08 – Brewing Beer & Coffee Wednesday May 11th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/make-live Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Diving Spudmarine As a kid with two older brothers, I knew how important it was to be the first to crack open a new box of cereal and sift through the contents for the toy inside. I remember fishing out a plastic toy submarine and I absolutely loved it. When you filled the submarine’s compartment with baking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Brainwave Beats Measuring brainwaves is not just for neuroscientists anymore – new affordable consumer level EEG devices ( & even some toys) do a respectable job at measuring tiny voltage pulses given off by neurons firing in the brain. Cool – but how shall we use these new found sensory powers? To automatically compose electronic music, of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet The Makers: Nirav Patel Nirav Patel is literally making things with a wave of his hand. Harnessing a hacked Kinect, he has written a program for “Gestural 3D Printing”. He calls the project “inane and irrelevant” but it is actually a perfect, shining example of creative ingenuity! Nirav, his Kinect, and his RepRap will be at Maker Faire Bay [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Arduino 01 Welcome to the newest video series from makezine.com, The Latest in Arduino.  This series will cover information related to the Arduino, including book reviews, interviews with makers using the Arduino (and -duino clones) for special projects, new Arduino-related products, and more – every other week.  Many episodes will also feature a hands-on activity performed by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet The Makers: Meredith Scheff The first thing Meredith Scheff ever made was, and I quote, “probably a mess!” She quickly moved onto creating things much more worthwhile. Her North Star Skirt was one of the most interesting projects at Maker Faire last year. Meredith defies description as a comic book-writing-soft circuit-designing-soldering-sewing-creative force. Meredith will be displaying her projects at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Junction Box Stash Spot – Tiny Yellow House Derek “Deek” Diedricksen is back again with a new episode of Tiny Yellow House, all about building your own secret stash box from a (non-live) electrical junction box. This is a fun way to hide your cash and valuables, and costs only about $10 to build. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 4/27/11 — Karts and Wheels (video) Make: Live ep07 is all about projects from the new MAKE v26, Karts & Wheels! Thanks to our guests Mark Frauenfelder, Jared Ficklin, Nick Raymond and Eric Chu. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 07 in its entirety (m4v or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet The Makers: Sung Kim Sung Kim's father gave him his first skil saw when he was just seven years old. His mother provided him with modeling clay as a safer alternative not long after that. Sung's grandfather-in-law, ship builder Dean Stevens, left him a coveted collection of hand tools decades later. These influences shaped his abilities as a woodworker, but his desire to create sound formed him into a Maker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflector Pockets for Cycling Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. Becky posted this great video on CRAFT about making a pair of reflector flaps that tuck into your back pockets when you’re not using them and can be deployed when you’re ready to ride. The project uses the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Truth Meter: Don’t Sweat It When you feel nervous, excited, surprised, or otherwise aroused, you experience galvanic skin response (GSR). Your sweat glands, in responses to adrenaline and other hormones, start to release micro pulses of sweat. GSR is one component of polygraph tests because it’s an indicator of how nervous a question makes you feel. The increase in sweat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA Make: Challenge webcast (video) If you missed yesterday’s webcast about the NASA Make: Challenge, check out the video here. You can also read the chat transcript, full of relevant links. Dale Dougherty chats with experts Kris Kimel, Twyman Clements, and James Kuhl. MAKE is happy to announce that we’re partnering with Teachers in Space and NASA’s Emerging Commercialization Space [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 06 In this weeks show, Rik and Frits are taking a look at one of the oldest, yet still most popular simple and fun hobby robot projects: “The Sumo”. Also in this show, a look at a very impressive piece of a hand made full metal robot that looks like it is ready to explore Mars. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet The Makers: Jason, Jimmy and Kiran Jimmy Chion, Jason Chua, and Kiran Malladi are the creators of Lightchimes, a beautiful lamp made from 169 hanging LED pendants. The circuit is simple, but the results are complex. This project is about interaction- without interference from a participant, the lights would never shine. Similarly, without collaborative interaction, this project would never have become [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 26: Karts & Wheels Roll Into Spring with MAKE Volume 26: “Karts and Wheels” Garage go-kart building is a time-honored hobby for do-it-yourselfers, and we’ve got plans and articles to help you build wheeled wonders that’ll have you and the kids racing around the neighborhood in DIY style. Build a longboard skateboard by bending plywood. Propel a go-kart with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Felt & LED Pinball Bumper Necklace Learn needle felting basics from Moxie and make this pinball bumper necklace in this episode of the CRAFT Video. Build up 3D forms using tiny pokes and wool roving. You can even embed an LED to make your pinball bumper light up. Caught the bug? Check out Moxie’s book, I Felt Awesome. Subscribe to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 4/13/11 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes (video) Make: Live ep06 is all about bikes! Thanks to our guests Nick Normal and William Thomas Porter. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Want to show us your project? Upload a video or photos and send a link to live@makezine.com. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the Makers: Satya Kraus Since the first moment Satya Kraus saw a motorcycle as a child, he has been obsessed. He turned that obsession into Kraus Motor Co. and now builds intricate handmade machines in his workshop under the California redwoods. Kraus Motor Co. will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22, where you can meet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 06: Bikes – Basics to Extremes (preview video) Make: Live 06 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes Wednesday April 13th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show. We also give away a fabulous prize from Digi-Key to one chat member who can solve our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The AWESOME Button: A Made-to-Measure USB Input Device After a quick search of the posts I’ve written for MAKE, it’s clear that I overuse the word “awesome.” It’s not news to me, but I had no idea how bad my problem was. In fact, I think you could say that I abuse the word. In order to cut down on my usage of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: The REAL Breadboard I just used a hammer & nails to build a circuit – and I liked it! Yes, I could rattle off a list of reasons to use more popular prototyping solutions, but none of them are as satisfyingly straightforward as nailing components to a piece of wood. Unfortunately, incorporating ICs into the build would likely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 04 Rik and Frits Lyneborg from Let’s Make Robots! are back with an update on the latest and coolest developments in the hobby robotics scene. Links to projects highlighted this week: Patrickmccabe’s Lottery Simulation Geir Andersen’s Sea Rendering OddBot’s SplatBot MkII Mr g000ze’s Marblephone the Melody Machine Gareth’s ThunderBird 6 – Gold-Coin-Ring-BottleTop-Finder Subscribe to the MAKE [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To for Secret Agents: Invisible Ink Printer Mod Make: Online readers who are secret agents—or secret agent wannabes—will love this project, which comes to us from MAKE Volume 16. By replacing the ink in a color inkjet cartridge with concentrated lemon juice, you can print with invisible ink. The secret message is revealed by spraying or wiping the paper with iodine tincture. Here’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest in Hobby Robotics 03 Frits and Rik are back with another episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics! Find out about the coolest projects this week: LineIronBot (Hacked Iron Line Follower) by isotope Companion Bot by Emma Party Popper Alarm Clock by unigamer MontyPythonSillyWalkBot by TotoroYamada Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Presents: The Oscilloscope Oscilloscopes are surprisingly easy to use once you’re familiar with a few basic controls. They’re extremely useful for testing and can provide newcomers with a whole new way to view the world of electronics & electricity – plus they look impressively cool/awesome while in use! I was lucky enough to score my own ‘scope during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: DSLR Pinhole Photography We’ve featured our fair share of pinhole photography projects here at MAKE, and it’s no wonder. As complicated as cameras have become, it seems amazing that photos can be taken with something as simple as a tiny hole in a shoe box. But if you still yearn for all the creature comforts that a modern-day [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 05: Kinetic Contraptions (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the fifth episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Make: Live 05 – Kinetic Contraptions Wednesday March 23rd, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show. We also give [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 3/9/11 – DIY Musical Instruments (video) Make: Live ep04 is all about DIY Musical Instruments! Thanks to our fill-in cohost Collin Cunningham and guests Ranjit Bhatnagar and Pete Edwards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live Episode 04: DIY Musical Instruments (preview video) Join us Wednesday evening for the third episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Collin Cunningham is filling in as cohost this week for Matt Richardson. Make: Live 04 – DIY Musical Instruments Wednesday March 9th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Networked On Air Light for Streaming Broadcasters In true spirit, Make: Live is very much a DIY production. Instead of tripods, we use zip ties to mount webcams to chairs and we jury rig an old monitor to act as our prompter. Along those lines, I decided to create an on air light to indicate when we’re broadcasting. While I could have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Monotron Hacking The Monotron mini analog synthesizer is a simple but sweet-sounding little synth that sports a few basic features that give a nod to us hardware hacker-folk. In the above vid, I merely scratch the surface of how this little guy could be put to creative use – even still, I had a lot of fun. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Blacksmithing on CRAFT (video) In this week’s CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole and I took a trip to Brooklyn’s She-Weld studio for a special blacksmithing lesson from Alex Himmelbaum. He showed us how to taper and decoratively curl the end of a steel rod and rivet it to a hammered backplate. It’s the burliest paper towel holder we’ve seen, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 2/23/11 – Science Fair Projects (video) Make: Live ep03 video is online! Thanks to our guest Sean Ragan, we enjoyed an evening of science. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 03 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room transcript! Sean Ragan – Laser Projection Microscope MAKE contributing writer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 2/23/11 – Science Fair Projects (video) Make: Live ep03 video is online! Thanks to our guest Sean Ragan, we enjoyed an evening of science. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 03 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room transcript! Sean Ragan – Laser Projection Microscope MAKE contributing writer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pallet Chair — Tiny Yellow House In this episode of Tiny Yellow House for MAKE, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen shows us one of his salvage uses for freebie pallet wood— an ultra-simple deck chair that cost him 89 cents (screws/nails) to build. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. There are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin’s Lab: Digital to Analog Converter It’s true – I love DACs. There’s something awesome about the role they play, translating information from one paradigm over to another form. Sure, you can pick up a precision DAC chip with serial interface for a little over a buck, but building a barebones version from a handful of resistors is a pretty dang [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MP3 Music Box When I was a kid, my grandmother had a charming wind up music box that plucked the tune “Edelweiss” when you opened the lid. I was so fascinated by the mechanics inside the little box that I had spent a lot of time watching the movement turn. I decided I wanted to do a modern-day [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 2/9/11 – Soldering (video) The second episode of Make: Live is online for your viewing pleasure! Matt and I had a great time hosting guests Limor Fried and Marc deVinck! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 02 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room transcript! Limor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sylvia’s Maker Show: Super simple screenprinting Ever wanted to design your own cool t-shirt, or maybe wanted to put your awesome doodle on a bunch of different stuff like birthday cards, jackets or your backpack? Today we’ll show you how you can do all of that with super simple screen printing! Let’s go! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Solar TV remote With the Solar TV Remote project from MAKE Volume 25, you'll never have to replace your remote control's batteries again. Instead, just leave it in the sun to charge up! This project is fairly easy and you may already have most of the tools and supplies you'll need. It might also make you feel slightly less guilty about being a couch potato! Download a PDF of the Solar TV Remote project from MAKE Volume 25 and head over to the Maker Shed to check out the SunMod kit, which includes a 4.8 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Live 1/26/11 - Arduino (video) The first episode of Make: Live is online for your viewing pleasure! Matt and I had a great time hosting the premiere with guests Steve Hoefer and Collin Cunningham! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 01 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Steve Hoefer - Secret Knock Gumball Machine Freshly published in MAKE Volume 25, the Secret Knock Gumball Machine dispenses candies when you know the secret rhythm! Take a tour of the project as we examin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE presents: The Multimeter Get acquainted with the Digital Multimeter - an engineer's best friend! The ability to test resistance, voltage, current & continuity are vital to any electronics maker - even the freshest of newbies. In fact, having a reliable multimeter on hand is a huge help when learning the basics. Even before understanding what each value means, you'll be able to establish reference points for applying each new concepts and troubleshooting experiments. For those curious, the big blue meter I us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 25: Arduino Give your gadgets a brain! Previously out of reach for the do-it-yourselfer, the tiny computers called microcontrollers are now so cheap and easy to use that anyone can make their stuff smart. It's called "physical computing" -- with a microcontroller, your gadget can sense the environment, talk to the internet or other gadgets, and make things happen in the real world by controlling motors, lights, or any electronic device. The Arduino is an easy-to-use microcontroller board -- it's lik ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Simple molding and casting for toy duplication Super Awesome Sylvia is back with another Mini Maker Show, this time it's all about casting! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Did you ever want another of your favorite action figures? Or maybe you want to try something crazy with a toy but didn't want to ruin it? Well today we'll show you one super awesome way to clone your own toys with simple Molding and Casting for Toy Duplication! Lets Go! For this build we'l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snail mail push alerts Getting iPhone push notifications from objects in your physical world is possible using an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield, a PHP-enabled web server and an iPhone app called Prowl. In this video, I show how to set up a mailbox so that it pings your phone when snail mail is delivered, but it's very easy to adapt this project to whatever suits your needs. Prowl is an iPhone app with the sole purpose of delivering push notifications to you from your computer via Growl or from online servic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Tron bag with EL wire Tote your Thinkpad and port your Apple in style with this custom TRON-inspired laptop bag tutorial and accompanying CRAFT video. With a little soldering and sewing skills you can have your own light up satchel, sure to impress geeky friends. So grab your sewing needle and soldering iron and follow along. This project is a collaboration between ladyada and Becky Stern. There's a getting started pack at the adafruit shop with some EL wire, inverter and connector and other small bits you nee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Sylvia's Super Awesome Guide We asked one of our favorite kid makers, Super Awesome Sylvia (and her super awesome dad, James) to put together a collection of gift ideas that were tops on Sylvia's list. Here's the video and guide they sent us. Thanks, guys! —Gareth Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. Mini-Trebuchet Kit, Maker Shed, $25 Ka-chunk, kerpow! I love to play castle, but it's just no fun without your own war machine! Made of just wood ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: USB Hacking with Arduino USB devices are so common nowadays - wouldn't it be nice to use one with your homebrew electronics projects? I wanted to use my compact USB-MIDI keyboard with my homebrew synth circuits. It seemed a simple enough prospect at first - listen to the data output, press buttons, note the changes, and then program a microcontroller to turn those changes into something I could use (like basic serial MIDI data). After a little investigating, I learned a bit about how USB works and that I'd ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fold-down fort -- Tiny Yellow House Derek "Deek" Diedricksen is at it again with a special MAKE episode of Tiny Yellow House. This time, he shows you how he made a fold-down fort for the kids using mostly recycled materials. It's great for a small kids' play area as it folds up against the wall and transforms into a fun art piece while stowed. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo.More: Tiny Yellow House: "Boxy Lady" vending cart microcabin Deek's Ve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: High Power LEDs & the Digital Color Organ 5mm or 10mm LEDs will work just fine for most projects, but if you really want to light up a room, consider using some of the "high-power" variety. With forward currents of up to a full amp, you'll need a way to dissipate heat - but the results are very much worth the extra effort. I've had color organs on the brain since the last installment of the Circuit Skills series, so I decided try my hand at a new incarnation of the basic 3-channel sound-to-light machine using high-power LEDs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Dizzy Robot Dizzy Robots are cute pocket-sized pals that dance around until they fall over. Thanks go to Steve Hoefer for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. To download The Dizzy Robot video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Dizzy Robot article in MAKE Volume 24 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Dizzy Robot (PDF) Dizzy Robots are cute pocket-sized pals that dance around until they fall over. Thanks go to Steve Hoefer for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the Dizzy Robot Template here Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Ping Ponger Propel a ping pong ball from a simple-to-make pvc launcher. Thanks go to Edwin Wise for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. To download The Ping Ponger video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Ping Ponger article in MAKE Volume 24 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Ping Ponger (PDF) Propel a ping pong ball from a simple-to-make pvc launcher. Thanks go to Edwin Wise for the original article in MAKE, Volume 24. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the 2" Snap Tee here Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10 questions with Jeff Potter of Cooking for Geeks Working at O'Reilly Media headquarters, I'd been hearing the buzz about the new book Cooking for Geeks for quite some time, so I was thrilled when I saw author Jeff Potter filming a video in the Make: Labs on how to hack your slow cooker into a sous vide rig. Anyone interested in the science behind food and cooking needs to grab a copy of this unique and fascinating book. Check out the video Jeff was filming for a taste, and then hear what he has to say to 10 questions we asked. Sub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: Ultimate Workshop & Tool Guide MAKE Magazine's special Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2011 reveals the top tools and tricks for today's DIY "maker" workshop — not just woodworking, but metalworking, electronics, robotics, computerized milling, 3D printing, and more. Whether you need a gift for the do-it-yourselfer who loves technology, or you want to rev up your own workshop in 2011, this guide shows you how. Packed with step-by-step photo instructions and reviews of more than 200 tools for the modern maker, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To: Sock Zombies (video) Learn to turn an old tube sock into a creepy-cute zombie doll in the latest CRAFT Video. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Halloween | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Ultimate Fog Chiller We decided to release Kip's latest Weekend Project, on building your own fog chiller, today so that you still have time to bodge one up before this weekend. Happy Halloween! - Gareth This fog chiller creates an eerie layer of fog that floats along the ground. Perfect for spooky haunted houses or displays. Thanks go to Adam Tourkow Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Halloween Special Edition. To download The Ultimate Fog Chiller video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Ultimate Fog Chiller (PDF) This fog chiller creates an eerie layer of fog that floats along the ground. Perfect for spooky haunted houses or displays. Thanks go to Adam Tourkow Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Halloween Special Edition. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 24: Space (video) MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our DIY SPACE issue. Put your own satellite in orbit, launch a stratosphere balloon probe, and analyze galaxies for $20 with an easy spectrograph! We talk to the rocket mavericks reinventing the space industry, and renegade NASA hackers making smartphone robots and Lego satellites. Of course, as usual, we've got a full payload of other cool DIY projects, from a helium-balloon camera that's better than Google Earth, to an electromagnetic levitator th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Video audition: Matt Richardson's Google Reader pedal We're holding open auditions for video makers here at MAKE! Here's Matt Richardson's entry, an awesome keyboard hack that lets you control your Google Reader (or any other keyboard-shortcut application) with the press of a foot pedal. He writes: Here’s a how-to video for an easy, but very useful peripheral hack. It’s for creating a USB foot pedal for any keystroke you’d like. For example, the letter “J” for the next item in Google Reader or F9 for activating exposé in Mac OS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Gyrocar Turn a toy gyroscope into a motorized gyrocar and make it ride on skinny tracks. Thanks go to Matthew Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The Gyrocar video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Gyrocar article in MAKE Volume 23 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Gyrocar (PDF) Turn a toy gyroscope into a motorized gyrocar and make it ride on skinny tracks. Thanks go to Matthew Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the Track Wheel Mounting Bracket Template here Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: LED Color Organ, sponsored by Jameco Electronics Long before the dawn of digital music, folks employed the power of the electric color organ (aka "light organ") to add some synced visuals to their hi-fi experience. Schematics for building such a beast based on AC power and incandescent bulbs can be be found fairly easily on the web, but plans for comparable LED-based designs seem a bit harder to come by. Adapted from Aaron Cake's 3 Channel Spectrum Analyzer, I built my own analog LED Color Organ to enhance the aural experience. The c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open source hardware summit keynote - Limor "Ladyada" Fried Open source hardware summit keynote - Limor "Ladyada" Fried (video m4v). Ladyada and the Adafruit gang will be at Maker Faire over the weekend, say hi! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Mystery Switch Make a mysterious electronic switch that only you know how to light up! Thanks go to J. Tregre for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The Mystery Electronic Switch video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mystery Electronic Switch article in MAKE Volume 23 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Mystery Switch (PDF) Make a mysterious electronic switch that only you know how to light up! Thanks go to J. Tregre for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make a Firefox necklace Make a silver Firefox pendant using some basic jewelry making tools and turn your favorite web browser into a fashion statement in this week's CRAFT Video. To get the foxy template, check out Tobi Leingruber's Foxbling on Thingiverse. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Crafts | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Lily Pad Pool Warmers Use hula hoops to keep your swimming pool warm year-round using the sun. Thanks go to Edward Hujsak for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The Lily Pad Pool Warmers video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Lily Pad Pool Warmers article in MAKE Volume 23 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Lily Pad Pool Warmers (PDF) Use hula hoops to keep your swimming pool warm year-round using the sun. Thanks go to Edward Hujsak for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: Wire Rack Attack! Once the growing sprawl of electronic parts starts showing up in your dreams, you know you've got some tidying up to do. It can be a challenge to spend quality hacking time on humdrum sorting & parts organization, but of course, in the long run it's a no-brainer. I've yet to discover a magical motivator* for organization. But if you can put aside a few minutes for the cause, consider installing an uber-simple wire rack using plain old curtain brackets - perfect for taming those wild ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: CD/DVD Parts Container A cheap and easy way to organize parts of all sizes. Thanks go to Steve Sofiel for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The CD/DVD Parts Container video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete CD/DVD Parts Container article in MAKE Volume 23 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: CD/DVD Parts Container (PDF) A cheap and easy way to organize parts of all sizes. Thanks go to Steve Sofiel for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: Custom Fit Earbuds I've used quite a variety of sound-isolating personal audio gear; around-ear cans, in-ear buds, as well as active noise-canceling models. All of these posed problems for me in one way or another. Most often, it came down to issues with comfort and how well each design could maintain a good seal on my substantial noggin. I was excited to find out that there are custom-fit headphone services out there, but my enthusiasm withered upon learning the price for such a thing. Thankfully, I did ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiny Yellow House: "Boxy Lady" vending cart microcabin If you're from the woods in the Northeast USA, you know that summer is all about forts, cabins, treehouses, and other alternative shelters. If you haven't known the pleasure of these delightful creations, let Derek "Deek" Diedricksen introduce you his world of microcabins in this episode of Tiny Yellow House, a MAKEcation Special Edition! Join Deek in the Massachusetts woods for a tour of his "Boxy Lady" vending cart microcabin complete with build notes inspired by his book, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: Surface Mount Devices, sponsored by Jameco Electronics I've tried my hand at quite a few different methods for circuit building — breadboard, perfboard, custom etching, even some boardless freeform wiring, but somehow, I never got around to using surface-mount parts (until now, that is). Understandably, many balk at the idea of soldering the infamously tiny SMD packages, but once equipped with the right tools, and a bit of patience, you too can solder your own teeny-tiny circuitry. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Easy Pitch Control Hack Make audio circuits sing higher and lower. Thanks go to Peter Edwards for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The Easy Pitch Control Hack video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Easy Pitch Control Hack article in MAKE Volume 23 This Weekend Project is sponsored by Livescribe. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Easy Pitch Control Hack (PDF) Make audio circuits sing higher and lower. Thanks go to Peter Edwards for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: iPhone Screen Repair Replace the broken glass of an iPhone 3G. Thanks go to Morten Skogly for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. To download The iPhone Screen Repair video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete iPhone Screen Repair article in MAKE Volume 22 or you can see it in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: iPhone Screen Repair (PDF) Replace the broken glass of an iPhone 3G. Thanks go to Morten Skogly for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Industrial Sound Controllers Tristan Shone rolled out the 'big guns' for Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. His Industrial Sound Controllers are a musical force to be reckoned with and their sheer size and weight demand considerable attention upon seeing them firsthand. Tristan took a few moments out from setting up to speak with Becky Stern and myself before performing, explaining some of the functionality of his custom gear. Fore more on his unique brand of 'heavy metal', be sure to check out the interview in MAKE, Vol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 23: Gadgets MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue, we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — the creepy mechanical box whose only purpose is to turn itself off (as seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus: how Intelle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sylvia's Super Awesome Mini Maker Show: Sidewalk Chalk We're excited to bring to you our special summer kids video miniseries, Sylvia's Super Awesome Mini Maker Show! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo. By James (TechNinja) and Sylvia Bored on a hot summer day? In the mood to let out your inner van Gogh and make something cool? Then lets make some sidewalk chalk! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Kids | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sasha in the Maker Shed: Solar Grasshopper kit Young maker Sasha shows us how to assemble the solar frightened grasshopper kit from the Maker Shed in this, another kid-made video on the MAKE 'tubes. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. The snap-together Solar Grasshopper kit uses solar energy to generate electricity and propel itself around. It's an easy to assemble electronics project that's great for first-time experimenters with little or no ex ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sylvia's Super Awesome Mini Maker Show: Crazy putty We're excited to bring to you the second episode in our special summer kids video miniseries, Sylvia's Super Awesome Mini Maker Show! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo. By James (TechNinja) and Sylvia Did you know that you can have fun making extended polymer chains at home with household chemicals? You bet you can! Today we're going to make "Crazy Putty!" Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "I make ..." 2010 Meet just a few of the makers & crafters who made Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 such a great event - a big thanks to everyone helped make it happen. Be sure to check out Maker Faire Detroit and the upcoming World Maker Faire in NYC! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Video | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sylvia's Super Awesome Mini Maker Show: Rockets We're excited to bring to you our special summer kids video miniseries, Sylvia's Super Awesome Mini Maker Show! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo. Episode 1: Rockets By James (TechNinja) and Sylvia Did you know you could be a rocket scientist in just one day? Well, a hobby rocket scientist anyways! The field of hobby rocketry is huge, ranging from $5 mini starters to multi-thousand dollar cus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Cornhole Make your own Cornhole boards and bags. Cornhole is a fun summertime lawn game where players take turns throwing corn filled bags at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. More information on Cornhole is available at The American Cornhole Association To download The Cornhole video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aspic Ascension: Jell-O mold winners Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Competitors in this year's Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition brought their best and really wowed the judges (including me!) on a hot night in Brooklyn last month. The grand prize winner was Shelly Sable for her entry: Aspic Ascension-- Tastes Like Heaven. She cast several Marys in tomato aspic and the pun was complete: bloody mary indeed! Her beautiful pres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Double Pendulum Build a simple device that exhibits chaotic behavior and makes an excellent science project or conversation starter. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. To download The Double Pendulum video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Double Pendulum article in MAKE Volume 22 or you can see it in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Double Pendulum (PDF) Build a simple device that exhibits chaotic behavior and makes an excellent science project or conversation starter. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics [Note: Jameco is currently offering all the parts I used in this video as a perfboard prototyping kit -- just add wire & solder. ] When you think "DIY electronics," one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board -- and that makes sense. Perfboard is widely used because it's so versatile. Essentially, it's just a grid of potential solder-point connections. You can trim it down to just the size you need, or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: LED Yo-Yo Spin activated lights for your butterfly yo-yo. Thanks go to Eric Chu for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. To download The LED Yo-Yo video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete LED Yo-Yo article in MAKE Volume 22 and you can see it in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: LED Yo-Yo (PDF) Spin activated lights for your butterfly yo-yo. Thanks go to Eric Chu for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orion's Fata Morgana orrery at Maker Faire Right at the center of Maker Faire Bay Area's Expo Hall sat a 15'x24' model of an imaginary solar system. Dubbed "Fata Morgana", this elegant rotating construction of metal, motors, and light was created by Mr. Orion Fredericks - and is actually a model for a much larger forthcoming piece of kinetic sculpture. Check out Orion's site for pics of the piece casting shadows and light on the nighttime playa of Burning Man. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video dir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diana Eng reports from Hamvention 2010 On May 14-16, 2010, over 15,000 ham radio enthusiasts gathered for the annual Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio. From the moment I drove up behind the creator of APRS (GPS for ham radio) there was something radio-related to see. It was like ham radio's Maker Faire. I've captured some of the highlights in this video. There were demos of Arissat-1, a homemade satellite from AMSAT. Morse code keys of every kind were scattered throughout the convention space (touch sensitive and bugs). There were ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile radios at Hamvention 2010 Mobile radios are like DIY cellphones. They can communicate across the world without the infrastructure of cellphone carriers or the internet. And sometimes, there's a lot of satisfaction in being able to do something all by yourself. Here I am at Hamvention 2010 in Dayton, Ohio checking out all of the mobile radios. There was everything from pedestrian mobile, to ham radio backpacks, to bicycle mobile. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On cloud nine: Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 video I met Kent Weakley and his son Lucas at Maker Faire this year -- a couple of really nice guys who got there a day early (as Maker Faire Boosters) for a look behind the scenes. Lucas helped me put together some of my projects while Kent set out with video camera in hand to capture the sights and sounds of the Faire over the next two days. After the Faire was over I got an email from Kent: Hi John, Here's the video from last weekend. Hope you like it. Lucas is on cloud nine still from Mak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cris Benton's pole aerial photography rig It was definitely hard to overlook Cris Benton at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire (he was the guy walking around with 29-foot fishing pole). Cris' carbon fiber fishing-pole-turned-monopod netted some amazing photos of the event and attending crowds - be sure to check them out in his Flickr photoset. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube, Vimeo, and Blip. Of course, this isn't his only method for capturing bird's eye views - t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vintage radios at Hamvention 2010 I like to think of ham radio operators as some of the original makers and hackers. They called hacking "kinking," said "hi hi" instead of "LOL," and assembled Heathkits long before Makershed, Adafruit, and Sparkfun were around. I had a lot of fun checking out some of the vintage radios at Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio a few weeks ago. I really like the designs of Heathkit, which was one of the first companies to make electronic kits right after WWII. They started with oscilloscopes, and l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A look inside the Raygun Gothic Rocketship It's difficult to grasp how awesome the Raygun Gothic Rocketship is until you actually see it in person and tour its interior. Becky Stern and I did just that at Maker Faire Bay Area, capturing the above seen video along the way. Here's hoping it helps convey what loving craftmanship when into the rocket's construction and many interactive details - amazing work! Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Read more | Pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ArcAttack! musical tesla coils Austin band ArcAttack! performs with musical tesla coils (in a chain maille "Faraday suit") and a robotic drummer. From their Maker Faire profile: ArcAttack! employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Ghost Phone Make a creepy ghost phone that brings back the sounds of the dead. Thanks go to Greg MacLaurin for the original article in MAKE Volume 16. To download The Ghost Phone video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Ghost Phone article in MAKE Volume 16 or you can see it in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Ghost Phone (PDF) Make a creepy ghost phone that brings back the sounds of the dead. Thanks go to Greg MacLaurin for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Rok-Bak Chair This recliner is very comfortable, easy and inexpensive to build, and can be assembled or disassembled in a few minutes. Thanks go to Larry Cotton for the original article in MAKE Volume 19. To download The Rok-Bak Chair video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Rok-Bak Chair article in MAKE Volume 19 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Rok-Bak Chair (PDF) This recliner is very comfortable, easy and inexpensive to build, and can be assembled or disassembled in a few minutes. Thanks go to Larry Cotton for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: DIY iPad Stylus Fingertip input is great for most touchscreen usage like typing, web-browsing - all sorts of virtual button-pushing tasks. But for many people, drawing remains an activity best approached with a pen, pencil, brush, etc. With a bit of conductive foam and wire, it's surprisingly easy to make your own conductive stylus, suitable for use with iPhone, iPad and similar capacitive touchscreen devices - and you'll likely find it a lot more precise compared to regular fingertip input. Subscrib ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $30 Micro Forge Do some blacksmithing and make your own nails and other small iron parts. Thanks go to Len Cullum for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. To download The $30 Micro Forge video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete $30 Micro Forge article in MAKE Volume 18 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $30 Micro Forge (PDF) Do some blacksmithing and make your own nails and other small iron parts. Thanks go to Len Cullum for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the firebrick here. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: Electronics Enclosures sponsored by Jameco Electronics Every useful circuit board deserves a good enclosure. Providing a proper case for your circuit can protect it from accidental spills & falls - plus give it a cool look you can proudly show off even to those unfamiliar with soldering and such. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. Personally, I'm a big fan of designing & casing up my electronics projects. The sturdy & functional results always leave me feeling a little impress ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Compressed Air Rocket Blow your friends away as you send this 25-cent rocket hundreds of feet in the air. Thanks go to Rock Schertle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 15. To download The Compressed Air Rocket video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Compressed Air Rocket article in MAKE Volume 15 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Compressed Air Rocket (PDF) Blow your friends away as you send this 25-cent rocket hundreds of feet in the air. Thanks go to Rick Schertle for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. Download the PDF of this project, and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Don't forget to download the rocket template! In the Maker Shed: Compressed Air Rocket Kit available in the Maker Shed! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 22: Remote Control MAKE Volume 22 is on newsstands now! Automate your world with remote control. From pet care to power outlets, from toys to telepresence, we'll show you how to add a joystick, push-button, twist-knob, or timer to just about anything. Remote control projects in MAKE Volume 22 include: The Lawnbot400 R/C lawn mower--sit back and enjoy the mow! Kitty Twitty cat toy that tweets (on Twitter) when your cat attacks Automated chicken coop controlled by iPhone Motion-detec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: 2-Mile Camera Remote Walkie-talkie actuator lets everyone pose without rushing for a timer. Thanks go to Tom Rodgers for the original article in MAKE, Volume 15 To download The 2-Mile Camera Remote video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete 2-Mile Camera Remote article in MAKE Volume 15 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: 2-Mile Camera Remote (PDF) Walkie-talkie actuator lets everyone pose without rushing for a timer. Thanks go to Tom Rodgers for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE/MakerBot 3D printer giveaway! To celebrate (one last time) the success of our Desktop Manufacturing issue of MAKE, we've teamed up with the folks at MakerBot Industries. We're going to be giving away a CupCake CNC, in the first ever official MakerBot CupCake CNC giveaway and Thingiverse design challenge! One lucky 3D designer will win a Deluxe CupCake CNC kit for his/her contribution to Thingiverse, and five runners up will receive something special too! Here's what you do to enter: Imagine something ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Egg Heads Build a challenging geometric puzzle out of wood then see if you can assemble it. Thanks go to George W. Hart for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Egg Heads video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Egg Heads article in MAKE Volume 17 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Egg Heads (PDF) Build a challenging geometric puzzle out of wood then see if you can assemble it. Thanks go to George W. Hart for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: DIY Sci-fi Inspired by last month's DIY Movie Making theme, I present to you the above-seen piece of homegrown science fiction. While waiting patiently for what is likely the galaxy's slowest turbolift, spacefaring duo Metalmags(Erica Magrey) & The Alien Ambassador(yours truly) take a casual stroll through the seams of their own chroma-keyed reality, in search of an answer to that age-old question, "Why are we here?" If the two pressed on in their search, they'd eventually stumble upon the two-di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Evil Mouse Prank Take control of your co-worker's cursor and drive 'em nuts. Thanks go to John Edgar Park for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. To download The Evil Mouse Prank video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Evil Mouse Prank article in MAKE Volume 15 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Evil Mouse Prank (PDF) Take control of your co-worker's cursor and drive 'em nuts. Thanks go to John Edgar Park for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Convertible Jockey Box Keep beer cold and portable with this homebrew cooler. Thanks go to Carlo Longino for the original article in MAKE Volume 07. To download The Convertible Jockey Box video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Convertible Jockey Box article in MAKE Volume 07 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Convertible Jockey Box (PDF) Keep beer cold and portable with this homebrew cooler. Thanks go to Carlo Longino for the original article in MAKE Volume 07. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Pinhole Panoramic Camera A sturdy, panoramic design pinhole camera that uses 120 film. Thanks go to Ross Orr for the original article in MAKE Volume 09. To download The Pinhole Panoramic Camera video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Pinhole Panoramic Camera article in MAKE Volume 09 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Get the Pinhole Camera Template here Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Pinhole Panoramic Camera (PDF) A sturdy, panoramic design pinhole camera that uses 120 film. Thanks go to Ross Orr for the original article in MAKE Volume 09. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Making the Weekend Projects Take a look "behind the scenes" as Kipkay shares what goes into shooting the Weekend Project videos and shares some tips to help you be a better movie maker. To download the Making The Weekend Projects video click here Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Gourd Lanterns Turn hard-shell gourds into decorative party lights. Thanks go to Diane Gilleland for the original article in MAKE Volume 21. To download The Gourd Lanterns video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Gourd Lanterns article in MAKE Volume 21 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. You can get pre-cleaned gourds here Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Gourd Lanterns (PDF) Turn hard-shell gourds into decorative party lights. Thanks go to Diane Gilleland for the original article in MAKE Volume 21. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: Kit-making When recently faced with the dauntingly tedious task of assembling my first-ever batch of electronics kits, I was lucky enough to have the ever-helpful eye of seasoned kit-maker Becky Stern close by. While observing my one-man assembly 'process', Becky advised a more efficient, modular assembly line technique using intermediary storage vessels. Streamlining the process left me with plenty of time to cook up some unusually fancy title/motion graphics for the above-seen video. Of cour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Magic Photo Cube Make a fun and easy desktop cube that magically reveals photos. Thanks go to Ken Wade for the original article in MAKE Volume 21. To download The Magic Photo Cube video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Magic Photo Cube article in MAKE Volume 21 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Magic Photo Cube (PDF) Make a fun and easy desktop cube that magically reveals photos. Thanks go to Ken Wade for the original article in MAKE Volume 21. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fairytale Fashion show 2010 - Diana Eng (video) MAKE, CRAFT and Maker Faire were sponsors of the Fairytale Fashion show 2010 with Diana Eng, here's my video - above in glorious HD (m4v here). The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an ed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Raygun A steampunk style lighter in the form of a retro raygun. Thanks go to Molly Friedrich for the original article in MAKE Volume 17. To download The "Discreet Companion" Ladies' Raygun video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete "Discreet Companion" Ladies' Raygun article in MAKE Volume 17 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Here is the pattern for the Raygun body. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Raygun (PDF) A steampunk style lighter in the form of a retro raygun. Thanks go to Molly Friedrich for the original article in MAKE Volume 17. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circuit Skills: Circuit Board Etching, sponsored by Jameco I very much enjoy making my own circuit boards. It's a satisfying process that ties together my love of electronics with materials I used back in my art school days. It's also the most accurate way to build a circuit short of sending away to a PCB manufacturer, and it's much more fun. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. I actually got my start in electronics etching others' designs I'd found online -- long before I under ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: LED Light Brick A single chip drives 20 LEDs to create amazing colors in this fun and easy project. Thanks go to Alden Hart for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. To download The LED Light Brick video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete LED Light Brick article in MAKE, Volume 18 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. In the Maker Shed: In the Maker Shed: The LED Lightbrick kit Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: LED Light Brick (PDF) A single chip drives 20 LED's and creates amazing colors. Thanks go to Alden Hart for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes at MAKE and CRAFT In January, many of the remote MAKE/CRAFT team members (myself included) convened at the Maker Media headquarters at O'Reilly Media in Sebastopol, California. Take a look behind the scenes of your favorite DIY publications as Goli Mohammadi gives us a tour! View on YouTube, Vimeo, or Blip.tv, subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, or download the m4v video. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Video | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Arc Light Build an amazing 19th century arc light out of simple materials. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Arc Light video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Arc Light article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Arc Light (PDF) Build an amazing 19th century arc light out of simple materials. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing radio waves with a light bulb Using a low power amateur radio transmitter and a simple light bulb receiver circuit, we see how radio waves and electromagnetic induction transmit energy and signals wirelessly through the air. We also see how dipole and Yagi antennas radiate their energy in different patterns. Read on to build your own dipole receiving antenna! Subscribe to the MAKE podcast in iTunes, or download the m4v video. More:Ham radio fun for holiday air travelHow-To: Make a Star Trek Bluetooth CommunicatorH ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE, Volume 21: Desktop Manufacturing - plus a visit to MakerBot HQ! MAKE, Volume 21 digs into desktop factories, covering a variety of ways you can get started with personal manufacturing - including: CNC kits DIY CNC milling machines Steps for building your own 3D scanner An in-depth look at the MakerBot Cupcake CNC & it's development We also paid a visit to MakerBot HQ in Brooklyn, NY and sat down with company co-founder Bre Pettis. Be sure to check out the interview + tour of the Botcave in the above vid! Oh and of course, MAKE 21 is chock-full of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The UnaBox Make a wooden box that can only be opened if you know the secret. Thanks go to Claudio Bernardini for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The UnaBox video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete UnaBox article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The UnaBox (PDF) Make a wooden box that can only be opened if you know the secret. Thanks go to Claudio Bernardini for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Remote-Controlled Camera Mount Turn your R/C car into a secret spy vehicle with this simple project. Thanks go to Ben Wendt for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Remote-Controlled Camera Mount video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Remote Controlled Camera Mount article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Remote-Controlled Camera Mount (PDF) Turn your R/C car into a secret spy vehicle with this simple project. Thanks go to Ben Wendt for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Personal Portable Heater Keep warm this winter with an easy to make portable heater you can stick in your pocket, under your hat or anywhere for some extra heat. To download The Portable Heater video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Low-cost fabbed 3-axis mill While at MIT last week, I met Jonathan Ward, who's working in the Machines That Make (MTM) group on an open source, low-cost CNC mill made from 26 parts on a ShopBot, called the MTM A-Z. You can download the necessary files (including bill of materials) to make your own! Check out the video above for an overview of the machine. The MTM group has this awesome idea of a fablab 2.0, where all of the big machines will have been made by other machines, reducing commercial overhe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craft meets tech at MIT In this week's CRAFT Video, come with me to the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There I met with e-textiles pioneer Leah Buechley and students from her research group called "High-Low Tech," which Leah describes as "blends" of technology with traditional crafts to make new toolkits for creativity and learning. I had so much fun checking out the amazingly brilliant and fun projects by Hannah Perner-Wilson, Emily Lovell, David Mellis, and Bonifaz Kaufman ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Rumble Mouse For old style FPS gaming, a cellphone vibrator gives a kick to your clicks. Thanks go to Greg Lipscomb for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06. To download The Rumble Mouse video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Rumble Mouse article in MAKE, Volume 06 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Rumble Mouse (PDF) For old style FPS gaming, a cellphone vibrator gives a kick to your clicks. Thanks go to Greg Lipscomb for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Retro Wireless Handset (PDF) Combine new technology with old for a retro bluetooth handset that will get people talking. Thanks go to Jeff Keyzer for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: LED Ice Cubes Make a glass of LED ice cubes for conversation or decoration. To download The LED Ice Cubes video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Retro Wireless Handset Combine new technology with old for a retro bluetooth handset that will get people talking. Thanks go to Jeff Keyzer for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Retro Wireless Handset video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Retro Wireless Handset article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE presents: Ohm's Law Voltage, Current, and Resistance - three of the most important electrical properties, are elegantly intertwined by way of a simple equation; V = IR, better known as Ohm's Law. Get to know this fundamental tool of electronics engineering - you'll be glad you did! Download the m4v file or subscribe in iTunes Related: MAKE presents: The LED MAKE presents: The Resistor MAKE presents: The Capacitor MAKE presents: The Transistor MAKE presents: The Diode MAKE presents: The Integrated ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Macro Photography On a Budget Pringles-can lens extender produces dazzling ultra close-ups for peanuts. Thanks go to Haje Jan Kamps for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06. To download The Macro Photography On a Budget video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Macro Photography On a Budget article in MAKE, Volume 06 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Macro Photography On a Budget (PDF) Pringles-can lens extender produces dazzling ultra close-ups for peanuts. Thanks go to Haje Jan Kamps for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Alien Projector Shine an alien or any other design on a wall with this $5 LED projector. Thanks go to Brian McNamara for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. To download The Alien Projector video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Alien Projector article in MAKE, Volume 16 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Here is the link for the Alien Projector template Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Alien Projector (PDF) Shine an alien or any other design on a wall with this $5 LED projector. Thanks go to Brian McNamara for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Rubber Band Power Build a fun-for-all-ages mini car launcher for next to nothing. Thanks go to Nancy Dorsner for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Rubber Band Power video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Rubber Band Power article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Rubber Band Power (PDF) Build a fun-for-all-ages mini car launcher for next to nothing. Thanks go to Nancy Dorsner for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kindle etching and DIY adventures (video) The Engadget Show: Kindle etching and DIY adventures with Adafruit Industries. Some footage and a tour of the show at Adafruit, I hang out there quite a bit :) Josh writes - If you'll recall, some months ago we held a little competition for readers to submit artwork destined for laser-etching on the backsides of Amazon's Kindle. After everyone voted on the top five out of the mountain of selections, we took the gaggle of readers down to our friends at Adafruit Industries (headed up by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab: Infrared heart sensor After checking out a few projects involving IR heart monitors, I decided to have a go at the interface myself. Seen above are the results of my first experimentation with pulse oximetry. Getting the setup up and running satisfactorily required a bit more time and tinkering than I'd expected - especially after reversing a premature mod to my emitter/detector pair. The next version I try will either use a higher output emitter (see Charles Martin's version) or some amplification hardwar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Bike Repair Stand Work on your bicycle the simple way with this inexpensive and easy to build bike stand. Thanks go to Shaun Wilson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. To download The Bike Repair Stand video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Bike Repair Stand article in MAKE, Volume 18 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Bike Repair Stand (PDF) Work on your bicycle the easy way with this inexpensive and easy to build bike stand. Thanks go to Shaun Wilson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Beetlebot Simple robot from your parts bin that avoids obstacles. Thanks go to Jerome Demers for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12. To download the Beetlebot video, click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Beetlebot article in MAKE, Volume 12 or you can also see it in our Digital Edition. In the Maker Shed: In the Maker Shed: The Make Beetlebot Bundle Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Beetlebot (PDF) Simple robot from your parts bin that avoids obstacles. Thanks go to Jerome Demers for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE, Volume 20: For Kids of All Ages MAKE, Volume 20 is on newsstands today! Check out this preview video to get a tour of our best edition yet (we know, we say that every time)! Want to know how to build a hydrogen rocket? How about a laser light show in a lunchbox? Or a simple remote-controlled videocam car? Or maybe you want to go old-school and build a wooden mini sailboat or toy car launcher? All this and tons more, plus revealing photos of Adam Savage's maker childhood, can all be found in MAKE, Volume 20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Lost Screw Finder Ever have a screw loose? If so, you might need this easy to build attachment to help you find that screw -- including plastic ones that a magnet would miss.Thanks go to Frank Ford for the original article in MAKE, Volume 13. To download The Lost Screw Finder video click here and subscribe in iTunes.Check out the complete Lost Screw Finder article in MAKE, Volume 13 and youcan see that in our Digital Edition.Read more|Permalink|Comments|Read more articles in Weekend Projects|Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Lost Screw Finder (PDF) Ever have a screw loose? If so, you might need this easy to build attachment to help you find that screw -- including plastic ones that a magnet would miss. Thanks go to Frank Ford for the original article in MAKE, Volume 13. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE presents: The Inductor The deceptively simple coil proves incredibly useful in the world of electronics - the inductor's ability to store energy in an electromagnetic field is the key to making transformers, electromagnets, and many more components work. It truly is an awesome device! I knew little of how inductors worked before starting out on this vid. In fact, none of the circuits I've built ever called for them specifically. But after a bit of research, I was honestly amazed to learn how they work. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Making Char Cloth Learn how to make a cheap and effective fire starter made from an old t-shirt. To download The Char Cloth video click here and subscribe in iTunes. See Char Cloth in action with the Fire Piston from William Gurstelle. For more info on what Swedish Fire Steel is, check out this article. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Evasive Beeping Thing Annoy your friends or co-workers with this high-tech practical joke. Thanks go to Brad Graham and Kathy McGowan for the original article in MAKE, Volume 14. To download The Evasive Beeping Thing video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Evasive Beeping Thing article in MAKE, Volume 14 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Here is a link for the corrected schematic. Use it rather than the schematic in the PDF or article. Read more | Permalink | Com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Evasive Beeping Thing (PDF) Annoy your friend or co-worker with this high-tech practical joke. Thanks go to Brad Graham and Kathy McGowan for the original article in MAKE, Volume 14. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Here is a link for the corrected schematic. Use it rather than the schematic in the PDF or article. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Atlatl Here is an easy to make ancient yet modern device that hurls spears at up to 100mph. Thanks go to Daryl Hrdlicka for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12. To download The Atlatl video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Atlatl article in MAKE, Volume 12 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Atlatl (PDF) Here is an easy to make ancient yet modern device that hurls spears at up to 100mph. Thanks go to Daryl Hrdlicka for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Mini Bike Light Ride safely at night with this easy to make Mini Bike Light. Thanks go to Trevor Shannon for the original article in MAKE, Volume 14. To download The Mini Bike Light video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mini Bike Light article in MAKE, Volume 14 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Here is the modified schematic using the LM3909 chip Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Mini Bike Light (PDF) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Junk parts pecan crusher Check out an old-school pecan crusher made out of junk parts found in a man-cave. Thanks to Terry Dove for this nutty project. To download The Junk Parts Pecan Crusher video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Homebrew Alarm Purse The Homebrew Alarm Purse is a simple, fashionable way to add an audible alarm to your purse. Thanks go to Norene Leddy for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. To download The Homebrew Alarm Purse video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Alarm Purse article in MAKE, Volume 19 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Homebrew Alarm Purse (PDF) The Alarm Purse is a simple, fashionable way to add an audible alarm to your handbag. Thanks go to Norene Leddy for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: DIY Drawer Organizer Organize your kitchen utensils and gadgets with this custom made plexiglass drawer organizer. Thanks go to Conrad Hopkins for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. To download The DIY Drawer Organizer video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete DIY Drawer Organizer article in MAKE, Volume 19 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: DIY Drawer Organizer (PDF) Organize your kitchen utensils and gadgets with this custom made plexiglass drawer organizer. Thanks go to Conrad Hopkins for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Tilt-Shift Photography Create the illusion of a miniaturized world with this photographic technique. Thanks go to Dennison Bertram for the original article in MAKE, Volume 09. To download The Tilt-Shift Photography video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Tilt-Shift Photography article in MAKE, Volume 09 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Blubberbot Build a Blubberbot. A light-seeking robotic inflatable in search of light and cellphone signals. To download The Blubbebot video click here or subscribe in iTunes. In the Maker Shed: Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Mini Fume Extractor Candy tin fume absorber helps keep your air clean and your lungs healthy. Thanks go to Marc de Vinck for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. To download The Mini Fume Extractor click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mini Fume Extractor article in MAKE, Volume 19 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Mini Fume Extractor (PDF) Candy tin fume absorber helps keep your air clean and your lungs healthy. Thanks go to Marc de Vinck for the original article in MAKE, Volume 19. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Barrel Water Collector Save money while helping the environment with this rustic, wine barrel water collector. Thanks go to Chris & Michri Barnes for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. To download The Barrel Water Collector click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Barrel Water Collector article in MAKE, Volume 18 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Barrel Water Collector (PDF) Save money while helping the environment with this rustic, wine barrel water collector. Thanks go to Chris & Michri Barnes for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Stun Gun Potato Cannon Launch potato projectiles 200+ yards with this stun-gun triggered, high-powered potato cannon with see-thru action. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 03. To download The "Nightlighter" Stun Gun Potato Cannon video click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete "Nightlighter" Stun Gun Potato Cannon article in MAKE, Volume 03 "Nightlighter" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Stun Gun Potato Cannon (PDF) Launch potato projectiles 200+ yards with this stun-gun triggered, high-powered potato cannon with see-thru action. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 03. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 19: Robots, Rovers, and Drones MAKE, Volume 19 features a special section on robots. Learn how to make a model plane with an autopilot and a small built-in robot brain. We also show you how to make a comfortable plywood chair, a bicyclist's vest that shows how fast you're going, and projects that introduce you to servomotors. There's a free downloadable papercraft diorama featuring a robot picnic with his human and feline friends. MAKE, Volume 19, on newsstands today! Subscribe to MAKE, or log in to check ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Electric Cigar Box Guitar Build your own 3-string, electrified cigar box guitar and make some sweet sounds. Thanks go to Ed Vogel for the original article in MAKE, Volume 04. To download The Cigar Box Guitar MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Cigar Box Guitar article in MAKE, Volume 04 "Cigar Box Guitar" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Electric Cigar Box Guitar (PDF) Build your own 3-string, electrified cigar box guitar and make some sweet sounds. Thanks go to Ed Vogel for the original article in MAKE, Volume 04. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: DIY Teleprompter Get rid of those cue cards and make a low-cost teleprompter for pro results Thanks go to Brian Lawler for the original article in MAKE, Volume 02. To download The DIY Teleprompter MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete DIY Teleprompter article in MAKE, Volume 02 "No More Cue Cards" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: DIY Teleprompter Get rid of those cue cards and make a low-cost teleprompter for pro results Thanks go to Brian Lawler for the original article in MAKE, Volume 02. To download The DIY Teleprompter MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete DIY Teleprompter article in MAKE, Volume 02 "No More Cue Cards" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab Notes: DIY Cymatics Sound can have some amazing effects on liquids - and some downright bizarre effects on non-newtonian fluids such as the conveniently simple mixture of cornstarch & water. I'd experimented a bit with cornstarch cymatics in the past, but never quite matched the writhing results I'd seen from others. Now, after bringing my own small puddle of goop to 'life', I feel pretty much satisfied =] Some additional pics from the session - Download the m4v file or subscribe in iTunes From th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Covert Wireless Listening Device Install a sneaky bug in a book or any small covert object. I used an old vcr tape to capture secret surveillance. Thanks go to David Simpson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. To download The Covert Wireless Listening Device MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Covert Wireless Listening Device article in MAKE, Volume 16 "Covert Wireless Listening" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more art ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Covert Wireless Listening Device Install a sneaky bug in a book or any small covert object. I used an old vcr tape to capture secret surveillance. Thanks go to David Simpson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. To download The Covert Wireless Listening Device MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Covert Wireless Listening Device article in MAKE, Volume 16 "Covert Wireless Listening" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more art ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Covert Wireless Listening Device (PDF) Install a sneaky bug in a book or any small covert object. I used an old vcr tape to capture secret surveillance. Thanks go to David Simpson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Head Mounted Water Cannon Make the ultimate soaking weapon for this summer's water warfare! No squirt gun even comes close. Thanks go to John Young for the original article in MAKE, Volume 07. To download The Head Mounted Water Cannon MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Head Mounted Water Cannon article in MAKE, Volume 07 "Head Mounted Water Cannon" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Dig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Head Mounted Water Cannon (PDF) Make the ultimate soaking weapon for this summer's water warfare! No squirt gun even comes close. Thanks go to John Young for the original article in MAKE, Volume 07. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CRAFT Video: DIY soda It's summer and all I want to do these days is relax with a fizzy beverage, but I can't stand too-sweet soft drinks! In this CRAFT Video, I show you how easy it is to make your own soda at home, and it's inexpensive, too! I use brewer's yeast to produce carbon dioxide, and whatever flavors come to the imagination. In the video I used honey, green tea, strawberries, and grated ginger, but you can use any combination of fruits, juices, fresh herbs, and sweeteners that you like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collin's Lab Notes: Exploratory IC torching After a recent post on the topic, I decided to experiment with a bit of IC decapping by way of propane torch. My first chip roast went relatively well allowing access to the precious chip within. I imagine a more evenly distributed & thorough torching would have made the hammer unnecessary - but I was happy with it as a first try. Now I find myself in need of better optics - anyone have any microscope recommendations? Download the m4v file or subscribe in iTunes Update:Already some ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Noisemusick Kit Make some crazy musical noise with this 555 Timer-based Noisemusick Kit. Watch the video to see it in action and pick up your own at the Maker Shed. In the Maker Shed: In the Maker Shed: 555 Noisemusick Kit To download The Noismusick Kit MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE presents: The Integrated Circuit A brief introduction to the technology that makes it possible for today's electronics to do so much with very little space - the IC (aka microchip)! Download the m4v file or subscribe in iTunes Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Kinetic Remote Control Get rid of your batteries and power your remote control with just a shake. Thanks go to Dhananjay Gadre for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12. To download The Kinetic Remote Control MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Kinetic Remote Control article in MAKE, Volume 12 "Kinetic Remote Control" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Kinetic Remote Control (PDF) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-To Tuesday: Arduino 101 & the PING))) ultrasonic sensor The PING))) ultrasonic sensor is a really easy way to measure distance with a micro-controller. All you have to do is hook up 3 wires and upload some code. These sensors are great for robots, alarm systems, or any other application that requires some type of measurement or obstacle avoidance. Don't forget to check out our other Arduino 101 videos! Subscribe to the MAKE podcast | Download for iTunes In the Maker Shed: More about the PING))) Ultrasonic Sensor Read more | Permalink | ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Fire Piston Make your own fire starter that uses compressed air and burns at 500 degrees! Thanks to Bill Gurstelle for showing us this at Maker Faire. To download The Fire Piston MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Pick up your own Fire Piston Kit in the Maker Shed. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Potato Gatling Gun Here is a brand new version of the popular potato cannon built by the DeRose family and shown at this years Maker Faire. Check out their website for more details. To download The Potato Gatling Gun MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Arduino Rumble Robots Learn how to modify the classic Rumble Robot toy with an Arduino. Thanks go to Dino Segovis for this Weekend Project from Maker Faire. To download The Arduino Rumble Robots MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 18 - ReMake America (video) Take a peek inside MAKE, Volume 18 in the preview video highlighting some of our favorite projects. It's all about remaking America with DIY energy, home and garden, and electronics projects. We're thrilled to bring you this collection of great projects, perfect for your summer MAKEcation.You can start reading MAKE right now if you're a subscriber in our digital edition, or sign up and get going right away! Use code CMAKE to get $5 off!Subscribe to MAKE in iTunes, or download the m4v or mov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 18 - ReMake America (video) Take a peek inside MAKE, Volume 18 in the preview video highlighting some of our favorite projects. It's all about remaking America with DIY energy, home and garden, and electronics projects. We're thrilled to bring you this collection of great projects, perfect for your summer MAKEcation. You can start reading MAKE right now if you're a subscriber in our digital edition, or sign up and get going right away! Use code CMAKE to get $5 off! Subscribe to MAKE in iTunes, or download the m4v or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Faire Bay Area 2009 video montage featuring Shovelman I'm really happy that I caught a performance by Isaac "Shovelman" Frankle at Maker Faire. It's amazing what you can do with a shovel, a few pedals, and a lot of talent. Check out Shovelman on MySpace. Hopefully he will have a CD soon! See you at the next Maker Faire! Subscribe to the MAKE podcast | Download for iTunes var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/arts_culture/Maker_Faire_Bay_Area_2009_video_montage_featuring_Shovelman'; Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more arti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thermochromic Maker's Notebook Here's an easy hack for your Maker's Notebook that's sure to get noticed: Buy some thermochromic liquid crystal (LC) film and attach it to the cover! Originally I bought LC film from US suppliers and tried gluing it on. I tested three different adhesives (3M Super77, DAP Weldwood Contact Cement, and Elmer's Craft Glue) and ruined one notebook and several pieces of film before discovering this self-adhesive LC film available from MUTR in the United Kingdom. (The 30x45cm size is necessa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer Make this low-cost camera stabilizer for smooth, professional looking video. Thanks go to Johnny Lee for the original article in MAKE, Volume 01. To download The $14 Video Camera Stabilizer MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete $14 Video Camera Stabilizer article in MAKE, Volume 01. and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer (PDF) Make this low-cost camera stabilizer for smooth, professional looking video. Thanks go to Johnny Lee for the original article in MAKE, Volume 01. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Super TV-B-Gone Are you sick of blaring TV's? Wish you could do something about it? Well you can with the this devious ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone. Watch the video to see it in action and pick up your own at the Maker Shed. In the Maker Shed: In the Maker Shed: Super TV-B-Gone kit To download The Super TV-B-Gone MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Thanks to Mitch Altman for inventing this amazing gadget. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Wee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Mooftronic Mini Synth Make some crazy sounds from a teensy-tiny musical instrument. Thanks go to Brian McNamara for the original article in MAKE, Volume 15. To download The Mooftronic Mini Synth MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mooftronic Mini Synth article in MAKE, Volume 15. and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Mooftronic Mini Synth (PDF) Make some crazy sounds from a teensy-tiny musical instrument. Thanks go to Brian McNamara for the original article in MAKE, Volume 15.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ITP Spring Show 2009 video compilation MAKE was at the ITP Spring Show 2009 earlier this week. This is a compilation video of just some of the cool projects that were on display. Later in the week I will be writing about some of my favorite projects in more detail. Subscribe to the MAKE podcast | Download for iTunes More about the ITP Spring Show 2009 In the Maker Shed: Make: Arduino Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $10 Pseudoscope Build an amazing optical toy that plays tricks on your brain. Thanks go to Rob Hartmann for the original article in MAKE, Volume 05. To download The $10 Pseudoscope MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete $10 Pseudoscope article in MAKE, Volume 05 "$10 Pseudoscope" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $10 Pseudoscope (PDF) Build an amazing optical toy that plays tricks on your brain. Thanks go to Rob Hartmann for the original article in MAKE, Volume 05.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: $10 Pseudoscope (PDF) Build an amazing optical toy that plays tricks on your brain. Thanks go to Rob Hartmann for the original article in MAKE, Volume 05.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Animal Detector Make a varmint detecting webcam that captures rascally rabbits in your backyard. Thanks go to Bob Goldstein for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Animal Detector MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Animal Detector article in MAKE, Volume 17 "Animal Detector" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Check out animals caught on video at Bob Goldstein's blog. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Animal Detector (PDF) Make a varmint detecting webcam that captures rascally rabbits in your backyard. Thanks go to Bob Goldstein for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE presents: The Diode It's the simplest semiconductor device made. It's technology ushered in the age of radio. Say hello to the electronic valve that rectifies and regulates - the diode! Download the m4v file or subscribe in iTunes As per usual, making this installment of the series taught me quite a few things. Prior to reading up on the diode, I wasn't aware how closely its development was tied to the birth of radio - and just how finicky crystal detectors can be. I had a crystal demo in mind for this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Strung Out Make a unique one-string, electric or bass guitar out of PVC and wood. Thanks go to Tom Zimmerman for the original article in MAKE, Volume 09. To download The Strung Out MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Strung Out article in MAKE, Volume 09 "Strung Out" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Strung Out (PDF) Make a unique one-string, electric or bass guitar out of PVC and wood. Thanks go to Tom Zimmerman for the original article in MAKE, Volume 09.View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Stealth Mic Make a set of sneaky earbuds that record what you hear. They create a binaural effect when played back wearing headphones. Thanks go to Bill Byrne for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Stealth Mic MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Stealth Mic article in MAKE, Volume 17 "The Stealth Mic" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Stealth Mic (PDF) Make a set of sneaky earbuds that record what you hear. They create a binaural effect when played back wearing headphones. Thanks go to Bill Byrne for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino Bike Patch In this intermediate soft circuit tutorial, I show you how to make a light-up patch that can be used on your backpack for fun and bike safety. If you missed my LilyPad Arduino 101, you may want to watch that first. The theme of this year's Maker Faire is "Re-Make America" so I thought I'd add some red, white, and blue LEDs to my messenger bag. I added them to a removable patch (from the fatlab, an artist collective I'm part of) so I can easily remove it at the airport, in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Truth Wristband Are you telling the truth? This fun and easy to build kit uses the galvanic skin response to become your very own personal lie detector. In the Maker Shed: More about the Truth Wristband Kit To download The Truth Wristband MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How-to Tuesday: Arduino 101 Accelerometers Today, I am going to show you how easy it is to connect, and use, a Memsic 2125 Accelerometer from the Maker Shed. This sensor is able to detect tilt, acceleration, rotation, and vibration with a range of ±2 g. It can be used for making balancing robots, game controllers, musical instruments and more. I'll get you started...what you do next is up to you! Want to learn even more about the Memsic 2125 accelerometer? You can check out all the detailed specifications on the data sheet here. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: television Episode 4 Make: television Season One has come and gone. But in case you missed it, we'll be rolling out the ten episodes of our premiere season again. Episide Four, take two, check it: Meet the Flaming Lotus Girls, a women-centric maker collaborative that creates gargantuan, fire-breathing sculptures. In the Workshop, John Park builds a digital TV antenna from wire coat hangers and a $10 video camera stabilizer. William Gurstelle shows surprising uses for cable ties, and Maker Channel contribut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Powerfake Take an old outdated PS/2 ball mouse and turn it into a handy multimedia controller. Thanks go to Daniel Walker for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Powerfake MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Powerfake article in MAKE, Volume 17 "The Powerfake" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: The Powerfake (PDF) Take an outdated PS/2 ball style mouse and make a handy multimedia controller. Thanks go to Daniel Walker for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17.View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arduino MEGA video featuring Tom Igoe I stopped by Eyebeam in NYC on Tuesday to chat with Tom Igoe about the new Arduino MEGA and few other projects that he is working on. I took a quick video and some pictures of the new board to share with our readers. If you don't already know, Tom is the Area head for physical computing classes at ITP. He also wrote two of my favorite books, Making Things Talk and Physical Computing (with Dan O'Sullivan). Did I mention he is also part of the Arduino team? Now that's cool. Subscribe to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE presents: The Transistor They electronically switch and amplify signals by harnessing the unique abilities of semiconductor materials. Their invention has transformed the world of electronics and accelerated our entry into the digital age. Behold - the Transistor! I learned a lot while making this installment of the MAKE presents series. here's a few of the information resources I found helpful during my research - PBS' Transistorized! Transistor, History of the Transistor on Wikipedia How Do Transistors Work ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101 Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. Inthis video I'll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. You can use Arduino with Windows, OS X, and Linux. Next time I'll show some more advanced topics including hooking up a sensor and using it to change the circuit's behavior. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101 Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I'll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. You can use Arduino with Windows, OS X, and Linux. Next time I'll show some more advanced topics including hooking up a sensor and using it to change the circuit's behavior. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Flash Memory Hard Drive Take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it's capacity and speed. Thanks go to Brian Nadel for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Flash Memory Hard Drive MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Flash Memory Hard Drive article in MAKE, Volume 17 "Flash Memory Hard Drive" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Flash Memory Hard Drive (PDF) Take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it's capacity and speed. Thanks go to Brian Nadel for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17.View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: DIY Stilts Rise to new heights with these custom built peg stilts.Thanks go to Molly Graber & Chris Merrick for the original article in CRAFT, Volume 08.To download The DIY Stilts MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete DIY Stilts article in CRAFT, Volume 08 "DIY Stilts" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: DIY Stilts (PDF) Rise to new heights with these custom made peg stilts that let you see the world from above. Thanks go to Molly Graber & Chris Merrick for the original article in CRAFT, Volume 08.View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Spider Rifle Make a humane, compressed-air-powered bug trapper that removes unwanted, tiny pests from your world .Thanks go to Matt Lind for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06.To download The Spider Rifle MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Spider Rifle article in MAKE, Volume 06 "Spider Rifle" and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Weekend Projects | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: Spider Rifle (PDF) Make a humane, compressed-air-powered bug trapper that removes unwanted, tiny pests from your world .Thanks go to Matt Lind for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06.View the PDF of this project. and then subsribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE Volume 17 - Lost Knowledge (video) MAKE, Volume 17 is here (m4v video)! Get your spark on with Steampunk genius and cover star Jake von Slatt's Wimshurst Influence Machine. Learn to build your own categorized cabinet of wonders to display your collectible oddities. Read all about William Blake, a poet who was actually a maker! Go inside a California steam-powered sawmill. Brew the smoothest cup of coffee with John Park's siphon brewing apparatus. recreate a 1930s model airplane and give it an RC twist for the best toy flie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAKE: television Episode 10: Wearable Technology & Cigar Box Guitar Visit SparkLab founder and designer Syuzi Pakhchyan, a maker who explores the new frontier of high tech and fashion with her space age handiwork. In the Workshop, John Park shows us how to build a guitar out of a piece of wood, some string, nails and a cigar box. Then he "makes it rock" by wiring it to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp. In a Hidden Treasures segment, Mister Jalopy opens up his Chevy Camaro's cassette player to show us the beauty and value of clear schematics for makers l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Profile - Wearable Technology on Make: television Visit SparkLab founder and designer Syuzi Pakhchyan, a maker who explores the new frontier of high tech and fashion with her space age handiwork. Syuzi attaches LED's and audio recording devices to clothing to craft unique sound and light wearables. Then see the very first maker of electric fashion. Learn more about Syuzi Pakhchyan at http://www.sparklab.la. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Workshop - Cigar Box Guitar on Make: television With a piece of oak, some string and a cigar box, John Park creates a three-stringed guitar. The cigar box acts as the resonating soundboard for the instrument. John then wires the guitar to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp and makes it really rock. Check out the PDF for this project. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Make: television | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Workshop PDF - Cigar Box Guitar Check out the details for Cigar Box Guitar and learn how you can turn a piece of oak, some string, eyebolts, and an empty cigar box into a rocking 3-string guitar. Give this build a shot, and let us know how it turned out. We'd love to hear your feedback (or mad cigar box guitar-playing skillz!) or see your pictures. Email us at maketelevision@makezine.com. Watch the Maker Workshop - Cigar Box Guitar segment. Or check it out on Vimeo, Blip, or YouTube. Read more | Permalink | Comm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker to Maker - Camaro 8-Track on Make: television In this Hidden Treasures segment, Mister Jalopy opens up his Chevy Camaro's cassette player to show us the beauty and value of clear schematics for makers like him. Check out Mister Jalopy's blog, Hoopty Rides. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Make: television | Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Channel Ep. 10 - Sunlight poem, Pedal-powered blender, Handmade theremin, Time-lapse camera Make: television presents: Sunlight Poem - Ji Yeon Song's one-day poem projector made of cardboard and sunlight. Pedal-Powered Blender - David Butcher outfits a bike with a generator that can run a blender. Handmade Theremin- Lorin Parker's theremin works great and sounds even better. Time-lapse Camera - Jay Burlage hacks into a clock to create an inexpensive way of taking panning time-lapse photography. Watch more of Jay's videos at his YouTube channel. [Trouble Maker] C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: 5-Minute Foam Factory With this easy-to-make hot wire foam cutter, you can reuse leftover Styrofoam to create treasures from trash! Thanks go to Bob Knetzger for the original article in Make: Volume 16.To download The 5-Minute Foam Factory MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete 5-Minute Foam Factory article in MAKE, Volume 16 "5-Minute Foam Factory" and you can see that in our Digital Edition.Read more|Permalink|Comments|Read more articles in Weekend Projects|Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekend Project: 5-Minute Foam Factory (PDF) With this easy-to-make hot wire foam cutter, you can reuse leftover Styrofoam to create treasures from trash! Thanks go to Bob Knetzger for the original article in MAKE, Volume 16.View the PDF of this project and then pick up MAKE, Volume 16 here for other great projects you can do over the weekend.Read more|Permalink|Comments|Read more articles in MAKE PDF|Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Maker Shed: SolarSpeeder 2.0 Kit The SolarSpeeder Kit from the Maker Shed is a really fun kit to make and race. The kit comes with detailed instructions, and is easy enough for even a beginner to assemble. I really like the contoured circuit board with it's cool looking gold flames. It really was amazing how fast this little solar racer ran across the floor after less than a minute of charging. Next I have to try out some of the upgrades. I'll keep you updated. The SolarSpeeder was designed using ideas gathered from man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make: television Episode 9: Computer Making Music&Personal Flight Recorder Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. In the Workshop, John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can measure the G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed activities. In the Toolbox segment, William Gurstelle demonstrates the slick, back-cutting action of a super-sharp Japanese saw. The Maker Channel features a tesla coil-powered guitar amp, an RFID ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Profile - Computer Making Music on Make: television Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. Based at Stanford University, CCRMA teams composers, artists and acoustical researchers together to meld music with new technology and explore the outer limits of audio from playground-activated sounds to laptop orchestras. Then see the origins of the synthesizer. Learn more about CCRMA at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/, or visit Chris Warren's website and blog. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Workshop - Personal Flight Recorder on Make: television John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities. Download the PDF for this project. Download the Personal Flight Recorder program for the Arduino. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip.Read more|Permalink|Comments|Read more articles in Make: television|Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Workshop PDF - Personal Flight Recorder Make a versatile and rugged personal flight recorder that will record the g-forces during any type of ride or trip. Check out the details for the Personal Flight Recorder that John Park builds in the Maker Workshop, and don't forget to download the Personal Flight Recorder software for the Arduino. Give this build a shot, and let us know how it turned out. We'd love to hear your feedback or see your pictures! Email us at maketelevision@makezine.com. Watch the Maker Workshop - Personal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker to Maker - Japanese Saw on Make: television In this Toolbox segment, William Gurstelle demonstrates the slick, back-cutting action of a super-sharp Japanese saw. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip.Read more|Permalink|Comments|Read more articles in Make: television|Digg this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Channel Ep. 9 - Tesla coil guitar, RFID implant, LED fan sign, Solar-powered gondola Make: television presents: Tesla coil guitar - Steve Connor plays his tesla coil guitar amplifierRFID implant - Amal Graafstra opens locks and other devices with his hand-implanted RFID tag. LED fan sign - Kip Kedersha lights up the baseball bleachers with his homemade sign.Solar-powered Gondola - Reno Tondelli takes us on a spin with his Solar Powered Bicycle Gondola. Submit a video of your own project at makerchannel.org. 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