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DIY mercury testing (or NOT) and new Home Chemistry book

At Make: Books, we've been working on an awesome new title, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, that we're all really psyched about. Make: Books editor Brian Jepson offers details, by way of an exchange between MAKE publisher Dale Dou...


Dorkbot DC Tommorow Night! (2/26/08)

Next Meeting: Tuesday 26 February 2008 7 PM - 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Katie Bechtold :


Killer-cool Solarrollers on Flickr

Check out these incredibly cool solarrollers posted to the MAKE Flickr Pool. This one's built in an old wireless phone chassis. Love the use of gears as wheels.


Rules for Roboticists

In honor of Robot Day on Make: Blog, I've posted my "Rules for Roboticists" from my 2004 book Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building. It's a playful list of operating principles, rules of thumb, and words o' wisdom about bot building. The piece ...


Dorkbot DC March Meeting

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7 PM - 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Tom Lee : Cheaper Arduino Wifi


I want an Arduino-powered Christmas, baby!

My Make: Books co-conspirator Brian Jepson has posted a quick n' dirty way of building a 64-node LED matrix (green and red, natch) of holiday lights, driven by a Max 7219 chip and controlled by an Arduino cloneboard. Not too shabby. The resulti...


Review: LEGO MINDSTORMS Library

In last year?s Holiday Gadget Guide, I reviewed the wonderful then-new LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system. It?s a year later and my admiration for this product has only grown. It has been enthusiastically embraced by robot hobbyists and professionals, ...


Steampunk goings on at Maker Faire

I'm just back from the third annual Bay Area Maker Faire. This year, one of the things I helped organize was the steampunk presence at the Faire, namely the Contraptor's Lounge, featuring such icons of the scene as Jake von Slatt, Datamancer, and ...


Dorkbot DC/Make: DC Project Night, This Wednesday!

This Wednesday (7 PM - 9 PM ET) is the January meeting of Dorkbot DC and the inaugural meeting of Make: DC, a new project building group inspired by MAKE magazine. We will likely be holding several joint Dorkbot DC and Make:


First Dorkbot DC/Make: DC Joint Project Event

On January 16, 2008, the first joint event of Dorkbot DC and the newly formed Make: DC was held at the Marian Koshland Science Museum. The evening was a smashing success, with some 65 people showing up! We


Resources for Backyard Chickens

Volume 13 of MAKE Magazine has hit the newstands, and it includes an article I wrote about raising backyard laying hens, Backyard Hens…that link takes you directly to the article in the MAKE Digital Edition - read it online! Here’s som...


Something Cute for Sunday: Baby Panda Sneeze


Animals at Play

I grew up in a culture where where animals were simply put on earth to be used by people. To perpetuate this myth, corollaries like “animals don’t have feelings or emotions” were also espoused. If an animal “played”...


The Carolina Circus Clowns and Their Delightful Dogs

Aren’t they fun? The signals for the dog’s tricks seem to be very subtle!


Have an insistent fetcher?

Do you have a dog who will try every opportunity to get you to play? This cute ball-throwing device might alleviate some of your pressure to perform: Mark Pascua has some more information about the device and its maker: lamgngo, the creator of t...


Urban Honey

Via Justinsomnia, we have this sort of peculiar video about urban beekeeping: