2013/08/20

Make: Daily

In This Issue...

Meeting Makers in Ohio This Week
Build an Arduino Controlled Solar Fountain
Build an LED Photometer
Open House: No, Really
Make Your Own Solder Paste Dispenser
7 Residence Hall Hacks for Improving Dorm Life
Taking Making to the Limit
Pedalusion Promises Pedal-powered Flight for the People
Finding the Makers in Maine
It's Back-to-School Week on MAKE

Meeting Makers in Ohio This Week

After a good weekend in Pittsburgh and the Mini Maker Faire at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, I’m heading north through central Ohio. I’ll be stopping in Youngstown, Akron and Cleveland, and there’s public meetups in Akron and Cleveland. I wrote recently following Maker Faire Detroit an article: Midwest at […]

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Build an Arduino Controlled Solar Fountain

A fountain can make a nice decorative fixture for your garden. But it isn't always easy to run a power cord out to where you want it. So I decided to run it on solar power. The system is controlled by an Arduino. This allows you to save energy by programming when the fountain will be turned on.

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Build an LED Photometer

Did you know that, although they’re great for emitting light, LEDs are also capable of absorbing light? This idea is leveraged in the fantastic Maker Press book, Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino, which goes into depth on using a variety of LEDs to detect light in the atmosphere. With a few […]

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Open House: No, Really

Built as a community project, Open House is quite literally a house-like structure that opens up into a 100-seat, open-air theater, free for the community to use for public gatherings like music shows and movie showings.

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Make Your Own Solder Paste Dispenser

Sparky's Widgets built this very cool solder paste dispensing system using a custom Arduino board packing two relays, as well as a pair of airflow-controlling solenoid valves, an off-the-shelf syringe, and an el-cheapo air compressor from Lowes.

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7 Residence Hall Hacks for Improving Dorm Life

We've rounded up a few fun DIY projects to enhance dorm life, ensuring your semesters are a bit more fun or geeky.

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Taking Making to the Limit

Continuing Math Mondays' series on the recent Bridges conference, today we highlight three different genres of mathematical making which we have seen before in Math Mondays, but which were represented at the highest levels of intricacy and development at Bridges. To start with, mathematical beading: various polyhedra cleverly strung with beads have graced this column in the past.

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Pedalusion Promises Pedal-powered Flight for the People

Two years ago, James Tascione had an idea. He was a lifetime RC airplane builder, and had been a touring cyclist, and he knew he could build a human-powered plane that could be inexpensive, easy to build, and accessible to anyone. Two years later and Pedalusion is almost ready to fly.

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Finding the Makers in Maine

Once you get in the maker mindset, you start seeing them everywhere you look. I was at an arts festival in Brunswick Maine this weekend. Many talented artists were out displaying their creations.