<!– Electronics –> By John Baichtal , 2013/01/21 @ 11:30 am MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able [...]

<!– Electronics –> By John Baichtal , 2013/01/21 @ 11:30 am MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able [...]

<!– Electronics –> By John Baichtal , 2013/01/21 @ 11:30 am MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able [...]

<!– Video Games, Fun Games –> By Michael Colombo , 2013/01/20 @ 11:30 am Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/1pF84d5SlSs/

<!– Raspberry Pi –> By John Baichtal , 2013/01/19 @ 12:08 pm Alex Weber designed a web interface between his phone and a Raspberry Pi, which controls a string of addressable LEDs. Like this: Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/L9xDYafpBkQ/

<!– MAKE Projects, Raspberry Pi, Weekend Projects –> By Nick Normal , 2013/01/19 @ 7:30 am Makers continue to surprise us with their mods of the MonoBox Powered Speaker. Already this project has been built into a cigar box, an Italian cookie tin (with status LED), and a recipe box and ammo canister, among other [...]

<!– Arduino, Citizen Science, Raspberry Pi –> By John Baichtal , 2013/01/18 @ 8:30 am José Amores, also known as UC4FUN, built this cool weather station that features sensors and a RTC module plugged into an Arduino, connected via XBee to a Raspberry Pi with an SD card storing data and a wifi connection to [...]

<!– Electronics, Arduino, Maker Shed –> By Michael Castor , 2013/01/18 @ 11:00 am One time I decided I wanted to learn Linux. I’d used desktop Linux GUIs before but they didn’t feel any different than Windows to me.  So, I grabbed an old laptop, loaded up the most stripped down version of Ubuntu server [...]

<!– Laser Cutting –> By Michael Colombo , 2013/01/18 @ 12:00 pm Laser cutters have been a boon for all types of maker projects, but there’s no denying that they have brought with them their own distinctiveness in terms of design (for better or for worse). A prime example is the ubiquitous finger-jointed box like [...]

<!– Music, Electronics –> By John Baichtal , 2013/01/17 @ 11:30 am Cristian Martínez’s Kraft Test Drummie and Robert Plant electronic musical instruments are super cool, and were even winners of the Made of Imagination contest in the category of Homemade Instrument. From the contest site: Cristian Martínez’s submission is a modified toy affixed with [...]

<!– Astronomy, Art –> By Michael Colombo , 2013/01/17 @ 12:00 pm It’s about a bilion times smaller than our actual closest star (140 cm, the artist made sure to make this exact), but Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has managed to recreate its glowing visuals in his art piece, Flatsun. To do so, he designed and built [...]

<!– Maker Pro, Electronics, Energy, Green –> By Stett Holbrook , 2013/01/17 @ 12:06 pm Elroy’s Rob Honeycutt. Lean, or “just-in-time” manufacturing can save companies money. But can it help cool a warming planet? Elroy’s Rob Honeycutt says yes. In 1989, Rob founded a bike messenger bag company built around two novel concepts: mass customization [...]