Make:

Make: Online

with the editors and authors of MAKE Saturday May 15, 2010

Suggest a Site!

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists' Soapbox Derby, 1975

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists' Soapbox Derby, 1975 via Kottke.

Stumbled across and purchased an actual print of this film back in SF while working on a project for the SF MOMA. Amanda Pope did a great job capturing the spirit of creativity and the event itself. I wonder where all of these cars are today?

Posted by Phillip Torrone | 8:00 PM in Retro | | Discuss (0)

Clever bedside reading lamp + bookmark

Pretty sweet concept design from Damjan Stanković. The triangular prism shape saves your place in a book, while the weight of the book keeps the lamp turned off. Lift the book to read, and the light comes on. [Thanks, Billy Baque!] Read More

This week in Maker Events

Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Read More

American Journey 2.0: Team Bobcat hits the road

Follow the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan... Come Along on American Journey 2.0 What do you get when you combine automobiles with location-aware computing? A winning team of students from the University of Michigan is hitting the road in... Read More

And the Make: Robot Build winner is....

1. Jartron! Jartron! Jartron! Jartron's creator, Dan Ray, wins a $500 cash gift card, a Maker Faire Bay Area ticket, and a swanky Jameco jacket. Congrats, Dan! You really blew all of us out of the water with this... Read More

Maker Faire: Saphira

"Young Makers" is the theme for this year's Maker Faire Bay Area, the world's largest DIY festival, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Young Makers is a celebration of our future generations of... Read More

Variable-terrain putting green

Why putt golf balls into a paper cup when you can have your own variable-terrain putting green? This course...offers players three cups and three skill levels. The most advanced level raises two platforms that change the terrain of the course - and the challenge that golfers face. Read More

Handmade "optical theremin"

Beep-it Deluxe is a handmade optical theremin, housed in a handsome laser-cut bamboo case and featuring a big chrome button and 2nd oscillator for enhanced modulation.Beep-it Deluxe emits a square-wave tone reminiscent of 8-bit video game music. A light sensor determines the overall pitch of the instrument, while a knob on the side can be adjusted to induce a warble into the tone for all of your sci-fi and rhythmic needs. Read More

Alt.Transportation: Customize your bike's chainring

trialex from Sydney, Australia sent in this interesting article on how to create a customized chainring for your bike. Now, to get some CNC time...... Read More

Maker Faire video album: Bay Area 2009

Here's another great video from Maker Faire, this time from Maker Faire Bay Area 2009. We'll have lots of new and exciting things this year, and May 22nd and 23rd are so close, I can already feel good vibes... Read More

Papercraft robots gallery

Rachel over at CRAFT spotted this collection of 50 freely-downloadable papercraft models from Botropolis. [Thanks, Rachel!] Read More

MAKE class at Parsons produces awesome DIY projects

This semester at Parsons the New School for Design, I had the pleasure of teaching a group of inspired students (both undergrad and graduate) about DIY projects online. The students were interested in everything from electronics to crafts, and... Read More

In the Maker Shed: Open Heart kit V2.0

The Open Heart kit V2.0 is a matrix of individually addressable LEDs that allow you to create customizable animations when connected to your favorite micro controller. Attach it temporarily to fabrics with headers that you simply push through, or sew it into a project with conductive fabric for a more permanent setup. It's "Charlieplexed" so you need only 6 wires to control the 27 LEDs Read More

RGB Conway's Game of Life board

Jonathan Guberman of Toronto, ON, wrote in with his lovely Game of Life monome game. This project has been gathering dust for over two years, and joining my local hackerspace (Hacklab.to in Toronto) inspired me to finally finish it!... Read More

Sweet function generator build

After checking out the last installment of our Circuit Skills series, Mark Warwick went to work building his own take on the function generator project using a Pelican case + a custom laser-etched front panel. As you can see,... Read More

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... Read More

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.... Read More

Cellbot runs on internal battery

The folks at cellbots.com are at it again. This time around they've swapped out all the 5v components for 3.3v and in doing so have wired everything to run off the G1's internal battery. Read More

Homemade transistor demonstration

Here's a follow-up video to Jeri's earlier run through of her fabrication of an NMOS (N-channel) transistor. Here, she demonstrates some of the electrical characteristics of a P-channel transistor she fabricated in her home chip lab. Surface-mount it ain't,... Read More

More Posts

Suggest a Site!

Videos & Podcasts

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... More

Weekend Project Videos | All Videos & Podcasts

Projects

More Projects