Weekend Projects, brought to you by RadioShack and The Great Create, is our regular series of clever, educational, and entertaining electronics projects that you can build over a weekend. Most are beginner friendly and will only take a few hours, others, more advanced and will take longer. So far, we're put up four builds. Upcoming projects include a modified radio for picking up air traffic control radio, a light-powered Theremin, and a message bag theft-alarm. To stay abreast of the new project postings, there's a regular newsletter, a Weekend Projects section on our Facebook page, and regular tweets and makezine.com posts. So, stay tuned. Here are the relevant resources to date:
Yesterday, we posted about a technique used in ham radio to solder together project boxes/radio chassis using PCB copper cladding. Some folks, in comments and on the twitters, were wondering how well this works. Take a look.
Over on CRAFT, MAKE contributing writer Scott Bedford offers a great little illustrated tutorial for hacking your own action figure into a spirited bookend. Check out the post on CRAFT, or head over to Make: Projects for a PDF of the build. Can’t wait to chop up some zombie Barbie bookends! Scott’s illustration style is [...]
"And that's just the beginning, there are all types of materials that work with the laser cutter. In addition to cardboard and paper, you can etch glass, cut acrylic, and engrave leather. You can even laser etch onto a chocolate bar." Said Zack, my TechShop Dream Coach who has been guiding me on my Zero to Maker journey. He was also today's Laser Cutting SBU substitute teacher.
Welding! Welding is a glorious, mystery-infused, thoroughly bad-ass way to stick things together. Welders move in their own cloud of mythos and danger- they are dirtier, tougher, and sexier than any other kind of maker, and the things they build are big and strong and hold our world together. This positive stereotype permeates at all levels of pop culture: if a character is introduced while welding, you immediately know that they will be some kind of blue-collar superhero, or some kind of cliched contradiction- the welder quoting Hegel after winning the bar fight, or the classic trope of seeing a welder at work, and then they flip off the helmet and OMG IT IS A GIRL! A GIRL WELDING!
Max of San Francisco build this LED scroller that displays messages SMSed to a Google Voice number. I’ve always loved the idea of sending messages to the big screens you usually find at concerts and other large events. I figured it could be scaled down, while still being just as entertaining. It may not have [...]
Stanford School of Engineering is offering three classes this fall with open enrollment and free admission. The first is Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. It is taught by Peter Norvig, author of Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach, and Sebastian Thrun, Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
Harvey Moon's Drawing Machine is, at its core, a pen attached to two belts that are both suspending it over a page and controlling its movements. Taking its cues from computer data, the Drawing Machine can reproduce any digitized picture or photograph, except the results are more akin to print-making in that every creation is unique with its own idiosyncrasies. Filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
FabFi is an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles. With Fabfi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed internet connectivity—thus enabling them to access online educational, medical, and other resources. [Via Ponoko]
Everybody makes mistakes, and we’re no exception. After each issue has gone to print, we usually find out we’ve made a mistake or two and post our errata on the magazine volume page and in the Letters section of the subsequent issue as “MAKE: Amends.” For our current volume, we just got perhaps the best [...]
Eric at GardenFork liked Deek's plywood boat so much he had to make his own. Learn to use a chalk line and see lots of build details for his custom spin on this one-sheet wonder.
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