Make: television received a warm welcome from the folks at Seattlest.com last week. Thanks for the feedback about the episodes, we're always interest in hearing people's reaction. Here's a snippet: Make debuts on Seattle TV this weekend. We've seen the first two episodes of the show (you can see some clips and episodes here), and the first one a...
Alex asks: I've brewed beer at home three times, but one thing has always proved to be a problem: How do I get a siphon going well for moving my cooled wort into my primary fermenting bu[...]
In case you missed last night's Nightline segment on the DIY movement and MAKE, featuring Mister Jalopy and Mark Frauenfelder and scenes from Make: television and Maker Faire, ABC News now has it o[...]
The Memsic 2125 accelerometer from the Maker Shed is a low cost, dual-axis thermal accelerometer capable of measuring tilt, acceleration, rotation, and vibration with a range of ±2 g. It's a great a[...]
On this week's Make: Talk, we'll be talking to Tom Igoe, one of the developers of Arduino (the extremely popular open source microcontroller), and the Area head of physical computing at the Intera[...]
If all goes according to plan (and there are no breaking stories to bump it), ABC's Nightline is running a segment tonight on MAKE and the maker movement. They taped a piece with Mark Frauenfelder [...]
From the MAKE Flickr pool While working out some software kinks for the upcoming Cupcake CNC kit, Zach produced the above 3-dimensional niceties. MakerBot Industries Cupcake CNC is an extrusion-ba[...]
Another Make: City group has formed, in Portland, OR. They'll be holding their first "official" meeting on April 5th, 3pm, at the local TechShop in Beaverton. The last speaker is YOU. Bring your p[...]
The first ever Make: Day was held two weeks ago at the Science Museum of Minnesota, and featured over 20 Makers, 3 musical acts, and tons of interested MAKE enthusiasts of all ages. The response to [...]
Don't forget, folks, MAKE classified ads are closing soon for Volume 18. We've extended the deadline to this Friday, April 3rd. So if you want to place an ad, here's your chance (and to be eligible[...]
Happy Birthday Dr. Bunsen! On this day in 1811 was born a pioneer in chemistry, and a maker of tools! Robert Bunsen was a German chemist; he made many significant discoveries, including the use of ir[...]