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This is my first circuit from the new Make: Electronics book! It’s Experiment 33: Moving in steps from page 286. You might be asking why I chose the stepper circuit for my first project? The simple answer is, I like stepper motors and I wanted to try it out.
In response to guest author George Hart’s “Mathematically-correct breakfast” piece in last week’s inaugural “Math Monday” column, the folks at Serious Eats New York wanted to know “Why should the bagel get all the geometric jollies?” So they made themselves a “Möbius doughnut.” Sweet. (The finished product is actually NOT a Möbius strip, but two […]
This holiday season, Kafumba and about 30 other youth are taking a product design class at AS220 Labs, taught by AS220 Labs staff and a designer from Providence-based medical device product development firm Ximedica. The young people have been making and selling handcrafted merchandise in AS220’s Fab Lab – a suite of personal fabrication equipment and software created at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms that includes a laser cutter, milling machine and vinyl cutter.
I’m thrilled to announce our latest offering from O’Reilly/Make: Books, Make: Electronics, by Charles Platt. This is a book that we’ve wanted to do for awhile. Many of us at Maker Media have had an interaction that goes something like this: You’re at a talk, Maker Faire, or elsewhere, and someone spirits you aside, like […]
On this day in 1765, Eli Whitney, Jr. was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. Whitney would go on, most famously, to invent the cotton gin, which revolutionized cotton production in the antebellum South. He eventually became the most famous early American proponent of interchangeable parts, and also invented one of the world’s first milling machines. Whitney died January 8, 1825, and is buried with many of his famous descendants in an historic cemetery in New Haven.
Wake up to a mathematically-correct breakfast with this bagel “hack.”
Nerdy physics/astronomy humor FTW. If you don’t get it (and it’s OK if you don’t, really), you might refer to Wikipedia’s article on blue shift. You can buy variations of this bumper sticker all over the web, but I’ve no word, alas, on how to score one of these official APS versions. [via Neatorama]
