In the summer of 2015, I went to my first Maker Faire, in Tokyo, Japan. Afterward, I could only think about the challenge of making something. It moved me so much that I left the company where I worked as a programmer for 16 years and became a full-time maker. I challenged myself to create something […]
Vintage Gibson electric guitars had a special circuit for modifying the sound of the pickups: the Vari Tone (Figure A). You could set the knob to get six different guitar sounds, from a funky nasal tone to a full-bodied sound. Here’s an effects box version of that famous circuit for your own guitar that you can build […]
Think you could MacGyver your way out of a dangerous situation? Solve this emergency scenario in a creative way and your solution could be featured in the next issue of Make: magazine! Submit your answer down below by June 30. Written by MacGyver TV creator Lee David Zlotoff and his partner in predicaments, Rhett Allain, […]
The sector, also known as the compass of proportion, is a fun and easy-to-use calculating device that uses the power of geometry to perform a variety of useful math jobs. Although at first glance a sector might seem as quaint and old-school as a slide rule, it can do at least a few maker-style jobs better, faster, […]
In times like these you learn to … lather up. Everybody needs hand hygiene, everywhere. Most of us take it for granted but for some, it’s just not readily available. LavaMaex is a nonprofit accelerator changing the way the world sees and serves our unhoused neighbors. Our goal is to teach the world how to take critical […]
Products like the Arduino UNO and Raspberry Pi have proven nothing short of revolutionary in the maker community by taking something which already existed in various forms and just doing it that much better that it changed the world. DFRobot may be hoping to spark a similar revolution with their unique new single-board computer (SBC), […]
If you ever thought your microcontroller board needed more LEDs, the FeatherS2 Neo might be for you. In addition to status LEDs, It features a bright 5×5 RGB LED matrix near the middle of the board. Unexpected Maker suggests you could use this for debugging output, even using it as a character display with scrolling […]
