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Today, we offer you a new way of learning: Maker Training Camps. Training Camps are collaborative online courses specifically designed to make it easier to learn a new skill or build a specific project. Camps use Google hangouts and communities to make it.....»»
Aaron Vanderwerff Named “Inspirational Teacher of the Year”
Oakland's Lighthouse Community Charter School is turning out some great young makers. If you attended Maker Faire this past week you might have run into Lighthouse students displaying a solar-powered scooter. (It started out as a go kart, but someone sto.....»»
Controlling LEDs with Charlieplexing
MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of "Charlieplexing," a method for controlling multiple LEDs without the use of multiple microcontroller pins. With charlieplexing you can turn on or off one LED at a time......»»
New Project: DIY 3D Laser Scanner Using Arduino
The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and distance shoots a series of images. With some trigonometry considerations and optic laws i.....»»
Maker Faire: One Maker’s Perspective
A timelapse of one maker's Maker Faire experience.Read the full article on MAKE.....»»
Tyler’s Maker Faire Robot Tattoo
At Maker Faire Bay Area last weekend, a group of editors were talking about the “maker tattoos” feature we’re working on for MAKE Volume 35, and someone wondered aloud when we might see the first iconic Maker Faire robot tattoo. Then, tw.....»»
5 Million LEGO Brick Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter
Thirty-two builders took 5.3m LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to assemble this X-wing starfighter, unveiled yesterday in NYC's Times Square. It will be on view there for a few more days before heading to California for permanent install at LEGOLAND.Read the .....»»
Milwaukee Makerspace’s Hacked Water Cooler
Ron Bean has a fascinating post on Milwaukee Makerspace’s wiki about his project to plumb in the hackerspace’s water cooler. In addition to the obligatory refrigerator full of soda (or sometimes empty of soda, depending on whether anyone’.....»»
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Joe Grand
San Francisco-based electrical engineer Joe Grand has spent the last two decades finding security flaws in hardware devices and educating engineers on how to increase the security of their designs. He specializes in inventing, designing, and licensing pro.....»»
Ten Dollar Stomp Rocket Launcher
Chris Connors’ 10 Dollar Stomp Rocket Launcher looks pretty cool! Stomp rockets are a great way to introduce flight, pneumatics, and energy transfer through hands-on learning. Paper rockets are very easy to make, and use “virtually free” materia.....»»
Making Makerspaces: Acquiring Insurance
This is the first in a series of posts documenting how to start a makerspace of your own in your local community. This post is focused on the one question almost everyone asks when starting a space - how do you get insurance for your makerspace? We'll sta.....»»
The Toa Mata Drumbots Return
Italian maker and sound producer Giuseppe Acito returns with his robot percussion band by combining LEGO Bionicle bots, Arduino Uno, and an iPad MIDI sequencer app.Read the full article on MAKE.....»»
How to Collect and Display Insects
In the midst of the current 17-year cicada emergence here on the East Coast, the good folks over at Radiolab have posted an interview with entomologist Dr. Louis Sorkin, in which he describes how to collect and display insect specimens in shadowboxes (or .....»»
Use an Op Amp to Make a Self-Dimming Night Light
On Make: Projects, Jason Poel Smith uses a pair of LM741 op amps to build an self-dimming night light that turns itself off after a period of time so you don’t waste electricity. The timer is made from a 741 op amp (operational amplifier) wired as a.....»»
Lost PLA Casting from 3D Prints
Jeshua Lacock recounted his experience of casting metal parts directly from 3D Printed PLA with a fantastic photo-filled writeup and video. He prints the part with his Ultimaker and pours mold material around it before letting it set. After the mold harde.....»»
Red Bull Creation 2013 Lineup
Red Bull Creation, a cool DIY competition sponsored by Red Bull, is back with a new challenge for 2013: It’s been three years with three variations of the nation’s favorite 72-hour themed innovation competition and it keeps getting better. Red Bul.....»»
Ten Tips for Adhesive Tape
Tape, tape, tape! There are so many different kinds and so many applications. Tape can be used for the jankiest repairs up to near-permanent fastening. Here are some pointers Read the full article on MAKE.....»»
Brendan Dawes: Sharing Your Work
This week, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes for my podcast, Looking Sideways. Brendan's known for early interactive web projects like Psycho Studio, that allows users to remix Hitchcock's famous shower scene themselves. He's also known f.....»»
The Metamorphosis Project
Venice, California-based artist Alex Andre delighted the masses with his simple but stunning Metamorphosis Project interactive installation at Maker Faire Bay Area last weekend. Alex is running a contest in search of folks who shot good footage of the pie.....»»
Is it a Hackerspace, Makerspace, TechShop, or FabLab?
The past decade has seen the sudden, dramatic appearance of community spaces offering public, shared access to high-end manufacturing equipment. These spaces are interchangeably referred to as hackerspaces, makerspaces, TechShops, and FabLabs. This can le.....»»