Give your gadgets a brain! Previously out of reach for the do-it-yourselfer, the tiny computers called microcontrollers are now so cheap and easy to use that anyone can make their stuff smart. It’s called “physical computing” — with a microcontroller, your gadget can sense the environment, talk to the internet or other gadgets, and make […]
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In Volume 23, we featured Ross Hershberger’s Squelette, a see-through amplifier (“squelette” means skeleton in French). There has been some lively discussion happening on the Squelette article page, and among those contributing to the conversation is Brian J. Andonian, a design engineer at Ford. He built his own version of Squelette out of cherry and […]
We’re thrilled to find out that MAKE has been chosen as one of Paste Magazine’s best mags for 2010. We’re in some great company, along with Wired, Esquire, The Economist, The Atlantic, and others. We, of course, especially like the line: “…the five-year-old title has out popular-mechanic-ed Popular Mechanics.” Kudos to everyone on the MAKE […]
MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Tyler Moskowite, engineering intern One of my all-time favorite projects to build has to be the Yagi Antenna from Make: Volume 24. The Yagi Antenna tunes into satellites orbiting the Earth […]
It took five years, but a reader–specifically Flickr user Tom Arthur–finally figured out the secret feature we designed into the magazine, oh very much definitely on purpose, back in 2005: It’s sized to fit perfectly inside a classic NES case. Tom is now the only reader able to equip the Soldering Iron of 1000 Truths. Congrats! [Thanks, Tom!]
Although many of us bloggers grimaced to read your comments when these posts first went up, time heals all wounds, and we’ve been having a great time on the mailing list bandying about our memories of our best/worst “ouch” moments from Make: Online and CRAFT. I’ve compiled a list of the top/bottom 10 best/worst posts from our trip down memory lane, and have included the best/worst outraged comment, from each, to summarize. Enjoy!
