And now, a word from our esteemed (and ever-so-awesome) Director of Technology, Stefan Antonowicz, on our upcoming site migration. — Gareth Hi Everyone, Over the weekend, we’re going to be transitioning the MAKE and CRAFT blogs from Movable Type to WordPress. Unfortunately, MT hasn’t been cutting it for us lately, and the requests and frustrations […]
Announcing the Maker Shed Deal of the Day! Each day we are going to feature an amazing deal for our customers. Trust us, they’ll be deals that you don’t want to miss. We even set up an RSS feed of our daily deals. Just a couple of clicks and you will get your daily dose […]
OK, so maybe the Digital Manufacturing Analysis, Correlation and Estimation Challenge isn’t as sexy as your grand robot challenges or your race to space prizes, but hey, if you’re into digital manufacturing, and are excited by the idea of using crowdsourcing to advance knowledge of the field and to explore the capabilities of DM, then […]
We’re getting down to the final days in the data logger build/contest, and things are starting to get exciting! Pictured above is the data logger built by Shazamp, who was one of the first people to share their build. There has also been a flurry of activity in the Forum. First, Jim of JESelectronics wrote […]
In the final newsletter for the datalogger build, we look at just how much power our project uses, what that means in terms of battery life, and then cover a few ways to drastically cut down on its energy consumption.
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, […]
The Maker Faire episode of The Martha Stewart Show is now online! TV-less or just Hallmark Channel-less? Watch the video clips on Martha’s site (sadly not embeddable here). We’re ecstatic to see some of our favorite makers featured on the show yesterday. I was lucky enough to attend with Maker Faire director Sherry Huss, Nick […]
