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The Steel Yard's Iron Pour fires up in Providence on 10/30

Watch the Iron Guild fire up their furnaces for the 4th annual molten metal spectacular. In the past they've brought us fiery hearts, zombie kings, and glowing skulls. This year...pumpkin casting and a giant flaming Jack-O-Lantern! Beth from The ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  23 Oct 2009

ChipDB, a new quick reference for ICs

Instead of digging through hundred-page PDF datasheets to find the pinout of a microcontroller or logic chip, you can use a simple URL scheme (example: http://msarnoff.org/chipdb/atmega168) to get the data right away. Matt Sarnoff wrote in to let ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  15 Oct 2009

The Steel Yard's Fall 2009 course registration open (Providence, RI)

Registration is now open for the Steel Yard's Fall 2009 Course Season! The Steel Yard just wrote in to let us know that registration is open for their Fall courses in Providence, RI: The Yard is gearing up for another great season of building, ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  13 Sep 2009

Maker Faire Rhode Island workshops open for registration

We're very happy to announce that we've lined up some fun workshops this coming week leading up to the main event on Saturday, September 19. These workshops are free and open to the public; some of the workshops will have materials fees if you want to ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  12 Sep 2009

Program Arduino from a web browser with physical x wonderfl

Shigeru Kobayashi wrote in to tell us about this very cool project, physical x wonderfl, which is a mash up of an online IDE and physical computing. With an Arduino or Gainer board and the Funnel Server, you can connect your microcontroller board to a ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  14 Aug 2009

Getting Started with Arduino in the iPhone app store

A while back, we posted some details about how you could read Massimo Banzi's on an iPhone using the Stanza reader. It's gotten even easier (and slightly cheaper): currently priced at $4.99, the standalone iPhone app version of Getting Started with ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  13 Aug 2009
Related Topics: FriendFeed,  Brian Lawler

USB power pack from MSI Wind battery

DJ Josef Průša, the author of the iPhone/Arduino/MaxMSP/OSC hack from iPhone Hacks, just let me know about this great project he made from a spare MSI Wind battery; a nice and juicy battery pack for USB devices. He was originally looking for something ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  28 Jul 2009

Persimmon wine: patience pays

The sweet essence of persimmon is both present in the nose and in the flavor. And the characteristic astringency of persimmon carries through, too, giving the wine a slight "pucker" at the end... Way back in February, I racked the persimmon wine ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  26 Jul 2009

Musée des arts et métiers--a Maker's museum in Paris

Britain and Germany may contest the title of best science museum with the London Science Museum and Munich Deutsches Museum (see Chapters 77 and 19, respectively), but France's Musée des Arts et Métiers (Museum of Arts and Trades) boasts of being the ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  15 Jul 2009

How to make a cheap tripod mount for the iPhone 3GS

I was thinking about this tonight, and remembered the nice little white holster of plastic that came in the box of my iPhone 3GS and cradled it so nicely. So, I took that, took a 3/16 drill bit and drilled a hole where the camera is and another where ...

From BRIAN JEPSON, MAKE: Blog,  26 Jun 2009

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