We’ve posted about Jim Kelly’s online weblog, chronicling his way through our beginning book, Make: Electronics. But Jim’s not the only person taking this trip online. Ian Fitzpatrick is doing the same thing. And he’s doing video for most of the entries, giving you another way into the experiments. Nice. Many thanks, Ian. Domo Domo, […]
The glowing reviews of Make: Electronics just keep on coming. We’re thrilled by the response. And yes, we love that it’s selling plenty of copies, but the thing we’re most excited about is that people get it — the goals we set forth, to create an attractive, engaging, fun, plain English beginner’s guide, that made […]
Craig Smith (South Milwaukee, WI) wrote to me to share this amazing project he’s been working on and to ask for your help: I was one of the lucky kids that received a Radio Shack Science Fair 150-in-One electronic project kit on Christmas morning. I spent hours making the different projects, such as sound effects, […]
Over on the Hands-On – Make: Electronics blog, our new best friend, Jim Kelly, continues to blaze his way through the experiments in Make: Electronics. It’s really fun to watch someone learning out loud. In Chapter 2, Experiment 8, Jim learned an all-important lesson in electronics, the need to be persistent in troubleshooting a problem. […]
It’s beyond me why anyone would want to start a car before they got into it, but if you’re looking for an interesting aftermarket mod for the next car show, this prepaid wireless controlled remote car starter is just the thing.
Inspired by Mike Gould’s “Lunchbox Laser Shows” project in MAKE, Volume 20, Karl Lunt made his own, more simplified version, scaling down the mechanics and changing up the motor and control scheme: Since I didn’t have a 1 RPM motor and I wanted to use something about that speed, I took the slowest, smallest gearhead […]
We got 104 comments on our SparkFun Free Day aftermath post, several of which were rather… lively. This video shows what went on at SparkFun HQ during Free Day.
