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MAKE Magazine In This Issue... DIY Lego/Ikea table Design Squad Nation Roundabout dog challenge Take a tour of the Arduino... but watch your step Protect yourself welding stainless steel Jeri's A to Z Electronics More Recent Articles DIY Lego/Ikea table Via Ikea Hackers: Quentin of Bordeaux, France, covered a Ramvik table with a Lego design he created, with bricks ordered from Lego's Pick-a-Brick service. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Design Squad Nation This week brings us the premier of Design Squad Nation, the reworking of Design Squad, with new hosts, and a new approach. All material from the first three seasons is archived on the Design Squad site, along with lots of great short video segments in the parents and educators section explaining lots of important concepts useful to makers of all ages. After the jump, check out the first episode of the new season. Full shows are available on the Design Squad site and YouTube channel. While you're waiting for each new episode, make sure you check out the new Design Squad section of Make: Online. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Education | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Roundabout dog challenge The Hack Factory in Minneapolis is throwing a Roundabout Dog challenge. Place a dog sculpture in a roundabout and win eternal fame! Prize: A picture of your roundabout dog framed and displayed in the basement of Minneapolis' hackerspace the Hack Factory, bragging rights. How to Enter: Anyone can enter, kudos if you're from another hackerspace. Send a picture of your roundabout dog, the gps coordinates (Lat,Long), your name, and anything else you would like to say to bigroundaboutdog@gmail.com. How to Win: A winner will be chosen on February 23rd based on Random.org's decidedly geeky atmospheric noise random number generator. The more dogs you enter, the better chance you have to win. For those of you in the Minneapolis area, a few brave souls, myself included, will be at the HF's weekly Wednesday hack meeting on February 2nd, and we will be putting together some roundabout dogs. The meetings are informal and open to the public and usually start around 7pm or so. The Hack Factory likes roundabout dogs. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Take a tour of the Arduino... but watch your step engineerzero was kind enough to give a guided tour of a ginormous Arduino Uno to a handful of faceless Google SketchUp denizens recently. Highlights of the tour included a short stroll down Power Street to Analog Alley, where many different kinds of sensors can be connected. The group also had the incredible opportunity to see a red LED being airdropped from a helicopter into digital pin 13. There's no doubt that it was an extremely dedicated group of Arduino fans making pilgrimage to this site since these daring visitors risked life and limb climbing to the top of the crystal oscillator to get a view of the various components below. Tours depart every 15 minutes from just north of the USB port. [via Adafruit] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Protect yourself welding stainless steel Michael writes - I'm sure some makers work with stainless without understanding the risks. Here's a great article written by my friend Lee Sonko when, as part of the Flaming Lotus Girls, he worked on the Serpent Mother. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Jeri's A to Z Electronics MAKE pal Jeri Ellsworth has produced the first two in a series of A to Z electronics videos, sponsored by Adafruit. Here are A is for Ampere and B is for Battery (I think I watched too much Sesame Street as a kid). Jeri Ellsworth's YouTube Channel More: Check out all of our Electronics Skill Set pieces Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • More Recent Articles New PS3 firmware hacked within hours Turn a mouse pad into an Ardunio-controlled drum pad Rough cut of upcoming Netduino Plus book: Getting Started with the Internet of Things Remembering Challenger Hubcap viperfish

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