Make: Daily In This Issue... Stuff Your Stockings with Care (and Maker Shed gifts)! Weekend Projects: Control Analog Servo Motors with Streams of Digital Data Gift Guide: Roominate Kit Packed with Possibilities RobotsConf: Attendee Profile – Catherine and Sean Hess DIYAbilities Teaches Maker Skills and Adaptive Technology Skill Builder: Make Your Own Snap Together Electrical Connectors More Recent Articles Stuff Your Stockings with Care (and Maker Shed gifts)! There may be plenty of presents for Makers under the twinkling lights (Arduino controlled, of course) of your tree, but don't forget about the stockings hanging from the mantle! Swing by the Maker Shed and ogle the Maker Shed Stocking Stuffer Gift Guide and get some goodies to fill those stockings. Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Weekend Projects: Control Analog Servo Motors with Streams of Digital Data Data Dial Dashboard joins our beginner-friendly electronics series, Weekend Projects, as a moderately difficult build. The case design and layout is fun and simple, made from balsa wood and uses ink or laserjet printouts for all the displays (or a laser cutter for those with access to one). Even the required soldering is nominal and pretty straightforward. The challenge then arises from what information to display, and how.        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Gift Guide: Roominate Kit Packed with Possibilities This colorful "wired dollhouse building kit" inspires creative construction. Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • RobotsConf: Attendee Profile – Catherine and Sean Hess While at RobotsConf, a new conference designed to transform 150 coders into makers in just 48 hours, I helped staff the 3D printing table, making parts for attendees' robots. Late in the first build day, Catherine Hess approached the 3D printing area - she wanted to know if we could 3D print a catapult for her robot. We quickly agreed, started printing the catapult, and then got to know Catherine, her husband Sean, and their little SumoBot, "Rudolph." Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • DIYAbilities Teaches Maker Skills and Adaptive Technology John Schimmel and Holly Cohen talk about New York City organization DIYability, which offers maker workshops focusing on tool use, collaboration, and assistive technology for disabled kids. Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Skill Builder: Make Your Own Snap Together Electrical Connectors It's easy enough to standardize the physical connectors in a project (e.g. build your whole robot with just one or two sizes of nut/bolt holding it together). But what about power and electrical connections? Read more on MAKE        • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles RasPi and Lego Robot Reads a Kindle Aloud Gifts you can Make and Eat Sweeten the Holidays with Some Pi! New Project: Custom Cookie Cutters

 

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