Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows?
John Graham-Cumming, of Geek Atlas fame, has posted a piece to answer the perennial question “Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows?” (the old-school in-series non-LED variety). And...
View ArticleHow-To: Brass rocking horse
Johngineer writes: My mother collects rocking horses. She tries to get at least one each year for Christmas. This year, she couldn’t find anything she liked in the stores, so I made her one out of...
View ArticleShopBot "sings" Joy to the World
Hope everyone is having a fine Christmas eve. Here’s a little holiday mood music, from our friends at ShopBot. [Thanks, Bill Young!] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more...
View ArticleHappy Christmas, everyone!
Merry Christmas from all of your pals at Maker Media. We enjoyed collaborating with you all in 2010 and look forward to even bigger and better things in 2011. In the meantime, please enjoy this Max...
View ArticleLaser-cut gingerbread
Malmö, Sweden hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen (“The Research Department”) celebrated the holiday with a little gingerbread, laser etched with some excellent ASCII art… and their founding date in...
View ArticleAlden Hart’s robotic Christmas balls
My friend, and MAKE contributor, Alden Hart created this unique holiday display for his house, using four TinyG boards controlling a total of 16 CNC axes, to animate 16 Christmas tree balls with LED...
View ArticleJabba the snowman
The bleak winter brings out the creativity in all of us, as evidenced by this snow rendition of Jabba the Hutt submitted by caffaknitted to the CRAFT Flickr Pool. Just one more Star Wars snow...
View ArticleTop 10: Let it snow
You may have seen some of this stuff lately. Don’t let it slow you down! Instead, here are the ten most popular snow-related posts from our archives to hopefully inspire some snowbound creativity. #10...
View ArticlePatent illustration Valentine’s cards
Steve Hoefer whipped up these fabulous print-at-home Valentine’s Day cards with particularly romantic patent illustrations. He writes: For a maker Valentine’s Day is no Halloween. Or even Christmas....
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....