Jake von Slatt, of Steampunk Workshop, says: Got an email this morning that made my frikk’n day: Jake, If you’re the gentleman that posted an article regarding removal and repair of a charcoal canister and stuff – thank you. The article inspired me to keep trying to do my own repair here in Southern CA. […]
MusicMiK shares his PCB creation process while working on a couple of phaser effects pedal boards. If you’re interested in making your own boards this will of course be of interest. Keep in mind, some of the techniques he demonstrates could be accomplished by relatively simpler means – such as using iron-on transfer or presensitized […]
It’s been a great week in the Maker Shed. We started out with another How-To Tuesday: Arduino 101 and ended the week with a quick preview of the Gakken Gravity Clock kit. We are expecting more new kits in the Maker Shed this week, so keep on checking the MAKE blog for details. How-To Tuesday: […]
Dan made an AVR-based logging wattmeter… He writes – This device monitors household power usage and logs it to an SD card. A simple analog front-end amplifies the signals from voltage and current detectors and an ATmega168 microcontroller computes the power consumption using the formula P=V*I. The voltage and current are each sampled at 9615 […]
The thought never occurred to me: scratch-building your own turntable. Paulo Rebordao writes: This is a record player complete with a servo controlled arm that I’ve designed and built during the last 10 months. It has a few unusual features and I think it looks Way Cool!!! Besides some general info on the workings, I […]
The Maker Profile segment in this past weekend’s episode of Make: television featured the talented Makers and musicians of CCRMA. Chris Warren of CCRMA sent us his instructions on how you can build your own Feedback Piano, as seen in the beginning of the segment. The Feedback Piano uses the strings and soundboard of a […]
Ty from Attack of the Show writes – We’re joined in the studio once again by John Park from his DIY projects TV show on public station’s across the country called ‘Make.’ He’s come back with even more stuff you can build yourself and he’s going to do some fancy demonstrations for us. Take for […]
