make is a quarterly publication from o'reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. it's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. make celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want.
Weeboy: A DIY video game system 1 hours ago Read More
This DIY portable game console features a color screen, tilt sensors, and 4 games. Of course you can always program more games if you build one for yourself. Check out the link for pictures of th...
Update on twittering power usage project... 2 hours ago Read More
Update for the power geeks - we have a cheap cap which works just as well as a supercap, we fixed a reset issue with slow power, and it's all crammed in the kill-a-watt casing now, so it's working...
Made in Japan - 1/9/09 2 hours ago Read More
This week:
Ardunio-based Anime Sound Glove, World's Smallest Flapping Wing Flyer?, Rubber Band Gatling Gun, IAMAS Gangu Project, A Picture That Changes Depending on the Source of Light, VR Panoram...
48V Electric Flat Tracker 2 hours ago Read More
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This is one of the better DIY electric rides that I have come across. It's an ...
Why don’t we have… SUN POWER - 1953 3 hours ago Read More
Interesting question, from over 50 years ago... Why don’t we have… SUN POWER Mechanix Illustrated, 1953-
Old Sol has more energy than all the atom bombs in the world lumped together. And it’s free...
Anatomical laser-cut chairs 6 hours ago Read More
From BB:
Lisa Jones's Symbiosis chairs start to get at the potential of cheap and ubiquitous laser-cutters -- the backs are and seats cut with highly intricate designs inspired by human anatomy. ...
Alt.CES: green "in" at CES 11 hours ago Read More
The Pharos Lens: one "green nutrition label" project
Companies at CES may be starting to equate being green with making green:
Consumers will soon look for more information on how a product was ma...
alt.CES: Electro-Harmonix Voice Box 12 hours ago Read More
I've often considered Electro-Harmonix the coolest mainstream manufacturer of effects pedals and this new product is further proof. The Voice Box is both a vocoder and harmonizer unit with mic and...
Electrified Monopoly board 12 hours ago Read More
Not to be outdone by her sister Kris, Carly DeGraeve sent us this link to her latest electrified Monopoly board. It lights up the four props in the center of the board when you land on the appropr...