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No point if you don't document! The world of hobbyists and makers is build on the premise of sharing and helping. That cannot be possible if you don't document your project (however small it might be) for others to use, remix and reproduce. You could blog on your website, or use resources like 'Scratch' or find new and creative ways of sharing your fantastic ideas.
The world's greatest D.I.Y. comic website!
This is one the most fantastic places on the internet for people to start with if they are clueless as to what they want to build. They have simple making tutorials through comics and videos with such clarity that you need not even know any language to understand it.
Build in Progress lets you share what you build as you build it.
No point if you don't document! The world of hobbyists and makers is build on the premise of sharing and helping. That cannot be possible if you don't document your project (however small it might be) for others to use, remix and reproduce. You could blog on your website, or use resources like 'Scratch' or find new and creative ways of sharing your fantastic ideas.
Education for Development (E4D) aims to extend the educational benefits of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and Maker Culture to disadvantaged and underserved populations in the developing world (i.e., those with the greatest need).
Teach and Mentor. Become a Resource - Don't keep your knowledge and expertise to yourself. Help others learn from you. Once you feel confident of your skills, mentors other teams, students to be able to do the same things. There are lots of people waiting for you out there who are not as fortunate as you to access the resources that you could. Become a resource yourself.
Create stories, games, and animations.Share with others around the world
This software platform called scratch is truly a creativity booster. Kids and adults alike can use it to make beautiful animated stories or even use for documentation and making tutorials. s4a.cat is a version of scratch which lets you go hardware by dragging and dropping scratch code and running on arduino in really the simplest of ways. A great way to be introduced to microcontrollers without having to go through the pain of deep understanding.
For more details, visit http://www.iliketomakestuff.com/pocket-notebook/ You can buy these notebooks at http://www.iliketomakestuff.com/product/pocket-notebo...
Learn to make your own notebooks
Follow the life of a SparkFun widget from a bare PCB all the way to your living room!
A very cool video on how spark fun makes their widgets. Must watch
Beatty Robotics Makes Robots. But what make them different is they make Robots With Beautiful Design Concept. Beatty Robotics team consists of thirteen-year-old daughter Camille (username: Lunamoth), eleven-year-old daughter Genevieve (username: Julajay), and Robert Beatty, the Dad
"We are a family that enjoys building robots and other electronic projects. Our goal is to have fun, to learn, and to be together. We build robots because we love the fusion of creative design, electronics, metal machining, and software programming."-Robert Beatty I am following beatty robotics for last 4 years now. All over this time I have noticed how they made themselves skilled to learn new skills in the field of creative design, electronics, metal machining, and software programming. But the Most noticeable thing you will see, how well they work on every detail of these robots. Yes Makers Must realize Design Matters, Detail Matters, An honest Design Shows how beautifully the work is done. And this something Make you Different from Other Makers.
A non-jewellery post, for a change. We were running a bit short on shelving in the kitchen and wanted somewhere we could store all the preserves we're going to make from the garden this year, so we went to the timber yard to see what they had. They had this, 155cm long piece of chestnut.
Read this article on how a guy filled up the cracks in a panel of wood with glowing blue resin. Its looks really cool.
Books and Toys
This is one of the most fantastic places on the internet for people to start with if they are clueless as to what they want to build. They have simple making tutorials through comics and videos with such clarity that you need not even know any language to understand it.
http://www.niklasroy.com/project/149/cardboard_plotter This plotter is made entirely out of cardboard, welding rod, rubber bands, adhesive tape and super glu...
Cardboard plotter project
Turning an egg shape in some 6061 Aluminum using a Mach3 controlled lathe. The lathe is a converted Grizzly G4003 Lathe powered by Gecko Drives. I am Using a...
Watch how a CNC lathe is turning an egg shape with 6061 aluminum
Some people (not me) can successfully solder incredibly tiny Quad Flad No-lead (QFN) parts such as the one in the photo below by hand using a soldering iron or a hot air gun (the photo below is from a commercial board, not hand soldered). For wireless devices and modern sensors, surface mount device (SMD) packages as small as QFN have become the normal, default package.
Building a reflow oven. We have not build this one. This is something that we definitely want to build sometime in the future.
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Making a goblet. Wow, its interesting to watch how a such awesome objects are made from a piece of wood.
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Watch the power of friction. In this video, two plates are welded together using friction welding. One plate is kept stationary, while the other one is made to rotate. Friction heats up the surface and on stoping the rotation of the plate, both the plates fuse together
A very quick clip to show the process Soren goes through when making one of his unique wooden lamp shades. !!! Please before you write a negative comment abo...
Making of a shade. Watch how this beautiful shade is made. Although we think the process is extremely wasteful, we also think that is requires a lot of craftsmanship to pull this out off.
Read all about the series on MAKE: http://makezine.com/2014/03/04/building-up-to-maker-faire-shawn-thorssons-brings-ed-209-to-life/ This is the first in a se...
Master Prop Maker Shawn Thorsson recreates ED-209 from RoboCop
My MakerFaire 2013 talk about the creation of blink(1) USB RGB LED notification light
From Prototype to Kickstarter to Production: How blink(1) was made
a project by dave hakkens
Making really cool stuff with recycled plastic. You will find the video interesting.
Becky Stern shows you how to whip up an light-up friendship bracelet with LED sequins! Build your own: https://learn.adafruit.com/nautical-led-bracelet Circu...
Nautical LED Friendship Bracelet
What makes “making”—the next generation of inventing and do-it-yourself—worth paying attention to?
The whole idea of being a maker involves concepts of collaboration, community, and working with other people. It’s very hard to be a maker and be by yourself locked in a room or even in a lab.
Turning a 300mm wooden sphere on a Vicmarc VL300 lathe
How to turn a timber sphere Wow, watch how a perfectly sphere is made out of wood.
This was a quick project to build a data logger, useful around the lab or elsewhere. So quick it can be built in a couple of hours, and with dozens of uses. The facility to log events or values over time is extremely important for many projects - it is a useful Swiss army knife to have around when needed.
Build a simple data logger, using Tiva Launchpad. We did not build it ourself but this one definitely looks interesting.
More info: http://www.ibuildit.ca/Workshop%20Projects/wooden-vise-1.html The vise is made almost completely out of solid pine. The jaw pads and handle are ma...
Get a perspective on how to build a wooden vise. Its not instructional but you get it. Also the video is not narrational.
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