Make

I Love Maker Faire!

I'm so happy Mark, Phil and the rest of the MAKE Mag folks put on Maker Faire. I'm here with Adrian and Lisa and surprisingly, it's even better than last year's. There are a ton of great pieces I've never seen, the weather is fine, the crowds aren't too bad and the food is great. I'd recommend you get your butt down here and come visit the event if you're even remotely close to the Bay Area. [Maker Faire]

4:45 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Brian Lam
4,502 views, 10 comments

Latest by Log1c: I really want to go, but I'll just have to wait until Monday for some Flicker highlights... boo more »

announcements

Maker Faire Bay Area - This Saturday and Sunday

Maker Faire and its ridiculously dangerous projects are going to be in San Mateo this weekend. If you're in town, drop by and say hello, since Brian's going to be there covering the crazy robots and trying to keep his eyebrows from burning off. If you're going to be running an awesome booth at Maker, drop him a note as well so he knows to stop by. See you tomorrow! [Maker Faire]

6:59 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Jason Chen
1,832 views, 5 comments

Latest by fusiongt: Ah awesome didn't know you guys would go to it more »

brain machine

Brain Machine Sunglasses Are Psychedelic, Hallucinatory, Fabulous

Here's a brain machine made from an old pair of shades with customized lenses by Okini393939. Stick 'em on and you have an instant meditation session thanks to the flashing lights and sound. I particularly like the instructions he put on the inside of the lenses—check it in the pic below. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Addy Dugdale
8,404 views, 55 comments

make

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Using a $115 Daisy open-source player, and a tin with a London tube map on it, Mchaceortiz made himself an MP3 player with a difference. The six way-retro switches on the tin control the volume, track selection and play and pause, and you can see another shot of it opened up after the jump. More »

7:40 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Addy Dugdale
5,345 views, 17 comments

diy

How To Shoot Fireballs

It's the weekend. You should either be consuming alcohol or playing with fire. Or better yet, both! (That was not an official endorsement by Gawker Media—so if you do this project trashed and rocket a ball of fire up your nose, don't sue us.) Anyways, making a fireball shooter is a wee bit complicated and requires quite a few parts you won't find at Wal-Mart, so you're going to want get started Saturday morning if you wanna impress your buddies and burn your eyebrows off Saturday night. Not convinced? I'll repeat: Fireball. Shooter. [MAKE]

8:00 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By matt buchanan
7,739 views, 29 comments

Latest by not2techy: @Awesom-o: They sure did, and they sure are. It's called the MG01 Electronic Hand Cannon. There is also an MG02 model with two barrels. Double the fun. more »

mike's mechanics

Custom-Made Acrylic Turntables Make Me Want to Trade in My SL-1210s

This gorgeous turntable is, believe it or not, handmade by hobbyist Mike Disher, who says he has a fascination for turntables and mechanical clock movements. Mounted on an acrylic plinth, his turntable uses just a VPI platter and Rega arm, whilst everything else is custom-made. He's also done his own interpretations of the Michell Syncro, and his first work, a take on a Rega P3, which he called the P3 Skeleton. Feast your eyes on Mike's work in the gallery below. [Inventive Guy via MAKE]

6:11 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Addy Dugdale
3,851 views, 16 comments

Latest by ideaman2020: @Worf: Well, on the other side of the equation, analog also has a higher signal-to-noise ratio and less dynamic range... Like most things in life, it's a trade-off... I also have to go on record as saying that I hate the "LOUDER more »

maker faire

2008 Maker Faire Announced

DIY gadgeteers, fire up your engines: the dates for Make magazine's first 2008 Maker Faire have been unveiled as May 3rd and 4th. The San Mateo County Fairgrounds in San Mateo, California will again be the venue. Expect to see all sorts of wonderful (and weird) DIY science, arts, crafts and engineering projects in action, just like last year. We'll be keeping you posted, of course, but if you want to go there in person remember that discount ticket sales end April 25th. [Maker Faire]

5:43 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,330 views, 6 comments

Latest by phlavor: The life sized Mousetrap Game was at Maker Fair but those photos of it are from Burning Man. Don't know why as there are like a bazillion photos of Maker Fair on the interwebs. Regardless, I went the last two more »

talking plants

New Botanicalls Lets Plants Communicate Using Twitter

The new version of Botanicalls can now talk to Twitter. It uses an Arduino electronics board connected to a notebook, and some soil moisture probes crafted from a couple of galvanised nails. Your plant can then send out a Twitter alert when it's thirsty, detect when its been over- or under-watered and let you know about that, and it can even signal its thanks. So, if you're off on vacation and your office-mates have abandoned your desk greenery, your plants can now automatically point the (green) finger at them. [Botanicalls via Make]

8:07 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,575 views, 6 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: This is insane.It's a thing to tell when your plants need watering? If your freaking plants need watering you'll know it. Are you the biggest idiot on the face of the earth to have a plant and need a computer more »

apple

MacBook Air Can Be Laser Etched, With Monkeys

Make's writer and laser master Phil Torrone has etched a monkey on his MacBook Air, a process which he says worked as well as with the other MacBooks after leveling it so the surface was perpendicular to the ray. Whatever. I'm like, monkeys. Cool. Ook ook. [Make]

11:44 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Jesus Diaz
7,903 views, 50 comments

toy fair 2008

MAKE Round-Up of 2008 Toy Fair

The guys over at MAKE had a great time at the 2008 Toy Fair, and their round-up post links to all the weird and wonderful things they found there. We've had a look, and collected some of their findings into a gallery. Check it out and you'll find matchstick architecture, VEX robotic bugs, 3D mazes, crystal-growth toys, chemical building-brick sets, and the faintly worrying (and historical) "Mysto Erector." [MAKE]

2:30 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Kit Eaton
6,648 views, 10 comments

In Brief

Mankind Keeps Reaching Higher: Laser-Etched Lunchmeat

It might not be the stunning achievement of brilliant scientific engineering that is the cheeseburger in a can, but the indomitable spirit of man means we'll never stop trying to top it. The latest attempt: Laser-etched lunchmeats. Classier than savagely severing dead animal flesh into pieces with a laser, Mleak's laser-etched art brings refined aesthetics to the table of processed meatstuffs. Okay, searing a pig onto a block of bologna is actually pretty tasteless, even if it is partially composed of chicken meat. [MAKE] More »

9:18 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By matt buchanan
7,470 views, 25 comments

Latest by Out2gtcha: @Kaiser-Machead: You forgot your side of Fema-slim. more »

true story

Stargate Found in Scrapyard

In what must have been one of the most surreal moments in scrapyardding history, one MAKE writer encountered a Stargate while digging through an otherwise inconspicuous pile of aluminum. Intricately detailed and just 9 inches in diameter, humans, of course, can't fit through. But MAKE is unofficially starting a "make me 9-inches wide machine" contest. The winner gets a trip to Egypt, but you know, on another planet. Runners-up will receive a trip to Showtime's backlot tour. [MAKE]

9:20 AM on Mon Jan 21 2008
By Mark Wilson
20,463 views, 19 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: Even though it's just nine inches across, think of all the things you could send to a planet run by an evil overlord? Here's my top 10 list on how to overthrow that civilization before we make a bigger one more »

make

Make Your Own Cheapo Android, Comes Complete with Jealousy Software

This one is going out for all the lonely people this Christmas time. Using a styrofoam head and a few other ingredients, such as a webcam, microphone, speakers, LCD screen and LED lights, you can make this rather scary-looking android to keep you company at home, scaring off all your lady-friends in the process. All this for an outlay of just $30, eh? [Instructables]

6:17 AM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Addy Dugdale
4,056 views, 17 comments

brilliant

Super iPod Pillow is Plusher than Plush, Plays MP3s

Let us salute creative types who are super-brazilliant at hacking MP3 players and have a bit of time on their hands, because this is what they can come up with — a super iPod that is 50 times bigger than the real thing, and that probably won't break when you drop it. There's a gallery below, but you can catch all the pics and instructions at Instructables. More »

7:42 AM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Addy Dugdale
4,712 views, 3 comments

dial 9 for space invaders

Atari "Punk" Console Stuffed in a Rotary Phone

Is no gadget sacred anymore? Here we have an old school Ericsson rotary telephone stripped of its innards which were subsequently replaced with a home-built Atari 'punk' console. Did we need a new way to present the Pong box? Hit the jump for the DIY schematic on the console itself. More »

8:57 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By kthompson
3,338 views, 7 comments

apple

Optimal Laser Settings for iPhone Etching

Phil Torrone at Make just did some laser etching experiments on an iPhone, discovering that the optimal settings for a 35W Epilog laser is "40% power, 100% speed with a 600dpi vector art image (AI) works great for laser etching an iPhone." The back goes white when zapped because the material is not aluminum, but a "nice plastic." [Make Blog]

3:11 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Brian Lam
3,654 views, 7 comments

iron gadget

Palm Foleo vs. DIY Palm Pilot Notebook

This week Palm announced the Foleo, an ultraportable Smartphone companion laptop. The January 2007 issue of Make shows you how to take a hardcover book and turn it into an ultraportable laptop by embedding a Palm Pilot and keyboard. The designer, Allen Wong, even powered it with AAA batteries that last for days. How does the Foleo stack up against Wong's Palm Notebook? It's time for... Iron Gadget!
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9:16 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007
By Noah Robischon
16,559 views, 27 comments

gallery

Giz Hearts Maker's Faire

That's Lisa and yours truly at the Flickr/Yahoo! booth, where they'd take a polaroid and scan it using some custom ware on a Sharp photocopier directly to Flickr. More »

9:51 PM on Sat May 19 2007
By Brian Lam
3,230 views, 12 comments

Gizmodo

Rumor Smashed: AT&T's iPhone Black Reference Just Placeholder Text

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