Forget Black Friday, 3am sales, and long lines of unhappy people buying giant flatscreen TVs, it's time to MAKE something this holiday season! Impress your loved ones with a truly special gift from the heart, not from a store. Spend the day after Thanksgiving with your family and friends, making gifts instead of trying to remember where you parked...
With the Fuel Cell X7 kit you can assemble and experiment with a unique reversible hydrogen Fuel Cell. This fuel cell kit provides a playful introduction to one of the most significant technologies o[...]
A reader named Jim from Arizona sent us an email a while back about his nine year old son, Schuyler, aka "Doctor Professor," who wanted to join the Make: Money program to fund his DIY, robotics, and[...]
Want to get some hacking in after your Thanksgiving feast? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar![...]
Ever since you made one of those turkeys out of an outline of your hand in kindergarten, you've probably been aware of the fact that Thanksgiving might not be the preeminent maker's holiday. Unless [...]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craf[...]
Jim Grisanzio went to the Make: Tokyo Fall 2009 meeting and took some gorgeous photos of the event. For more, check out the Flickr sets by Yoshikawa Hiroyuki and whaleforset. Looks like it was fun[...]
What's better for a holiday gift then LEDs? More LEDs! Trick out your festivities with these blinky kits! MiniPOV Kit ($18) The canonical LED project, this persistence of vision (POV) kit spell[...]
This year was the year for electronic-paper displays (EPDs), or e-paper. Next year, we’ll see a flood of e-book readers from a wide range of vendors. Two things make E Ink’s e-paper disp[...]
For those bored by the portability of thumb drives, a 14GB furniture set designed to encourage data sharing -The sofas were made by creative design studio Cabracega for last year's International Fest[...]
The Dangerous Book for Boys Essential Electronics kit presents electronics every kid should know through fun, engaging, and impressive experiments and activities. Read a brief history of the research[...]