<!– Food and Beverage, Halloween, Home Decor –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/10/23 @ 4:47 pm Halloween is all about dressing up and going door-to-door for trick or treating, but the holiday is also a great time to show off your domestic maker skills. Here are 10 great food and home decor ideas for a scary, [...]

<!– Arduino, Maker Shed, Microcontrollers, Robotics –> By Michael Castor, 2012/10/23 @ 8:00 am   The Boe-Bot from Parallax has taught thousands of people (including myself) about robotics using the Basic Stamp. Their excellent platform and documentation provided a great way to teach students and hobbyists how to build and program a robot that could [...]

<!– Announcements, Arduino –> By Brian Jepson, 2012/10/23 @ 8:14 am On Tuesday, October 30, 2012, O’Reilly is presenting a free webcast with Michael Margolis, author of the Arduino Cookbook and Make An Arduino-Controlled Robot: Building a robot and enabling it to sense its environment is a wonderful way to apply your Arduino knowledge to [...]

<!– Flight Projectiles, Kids, LEGO –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/10/23 @ 9:31 am Godspeed, brave Lego man. Felix Baumgartner’s space jump was thrilling, but this Lego stunt is no less exciting. True, Lego man didn’t break the sound barrier or risk a high-impact death, but the Lego jump was no less impressive. The swelling music [...]

<!– Fashion Tech, The Makeys, Wearables –> By Gillian BenAry, 2012/10/23 @ 11:43 am Since we live-streamed the 2012 Makeys at World Maker Faire New York in September, we’ve received a lot of questions about the amazing special effects makeup on Matt Richardson, Gareth Branwyn, and Jeri Ellsworth, and myself. Here’s some background on the [...]

<!– MAKE Asks –> By Michael Colombo, 2012/10/23 @ 12:00 pm MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other. This week’s question: We all have [...]

<!– MAKE Columns Interviews –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/10/23 @ 1:28 pm Tune in today at google.com/+make at 2pm PT/5pm ET for our first-ever MAKE Editors’ Google+ Hangout on Air. We’ll be talking about the release of MAKE Volume 32, on newsstands TODAY. We’ll also have a special giveaway to celebrate the new issue. Going [...]

<!– Arduino, Halloween, Raspberry Pi –> By Shawn Wallace, 2012/10/22 @ 2:42 pm People have been asking me about interesting applications for the Raspberry Pi, and whether Raspberry Pi is an Arduino killer of some sort. The answer to the second question is no; in fact it is an Arduino augmenter. This blog post answers [...]

<!– Events Holidays –> By Arwen O’Reilly Griffith, 2012/10/22 @ 3:30 pm This slideshow requires JavaScript. = 410 ? ’410px’ : ‘auto’); } ]]> I spent Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s Barrel House, an atmospheric former wine storage facility turned event space. The organizers of TEDx Embarcadero had laid quite a spread for the attendees, [...]

<!– Electronics –> By Mark Frauenfelder, 2012/10/22 @ 4:30 pm In March, Sean Reagan pointed to Dangerous Prototypes’ tutorial on generating 3D models of printed circuit boards from Eagle files. Since then, Dangerous Prototypes has posted a follow-up tutorial that explains how to use Kerkythea, an open source rendering application for making realistic 3D images. [...]

<!– Kits, Workshop Tools –> By John Baichtal, 2012/10/22 @ 7:00 am Patrick Hood-Daniel and MAKE friend James Floyd Kelly are developing a DIY laser cutter and marketing it via a Kickstarter campaign. While laser cutters share many similarities to CNC machines and 3D printers (mainly in motors that control movement or software/electronics that define [...]

<!– Casting Forging, Workshop Tools –> By Sean Ragan, 2012/10/22 @ 9:00 am Michael Gavac is a knife- and sheath-maker in Brooklyn. In this 13-minute video, he demonstrates his dirt-simple process for casting handy GITD epoxy-composite handles on full-tang skeletonized blades. Besides the knife, only epoxy, GITD powder, a stir stick, a couple slabs of [...]