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Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes We are excited to announce a new book from CRAFT -- Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro into Smart Crafting by Syuzi Pakhchyan, is available starting today. Learn how to take your craft projects to the next level with "smart" materials where you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more. Fashioning Technology offers jargon-free primers and lots of how-to projects that will have you making -- and even wearing -- functional works of art. Watch this special CRAFT Video Podcast and get a preview with Syuzi herself as she takes you through some of the fun projects! Buy Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan in the Maker Shed today! This book demonstrates how to blend sewing and assembly techniques with traditional electronics to assemble simple circuits using conductive thread, solder joints for snaps, and switches for buttons. With the sewing machine as a viable substitute for the soldering iron, you can craft a new generation of objects that are interactive, quirky, and fashion-conscious. Look for Fashioning Technology Kits soon this Summer in the Maker Shed! For now, check out the rest of our CRAFT Kits. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this!

Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes Love your Maker's Notebook, but wish it had a pocket? Well, in this video I'll show you how easy it is to add your own. This gusseted (accordion-style) pocket will keep you loose papers safe from escape when your notebook is closed. In the Maker Shed Store: Pick up The Maker's Notebook ($19.99) for all your ideas, diagrams, patterns, and great references in the back Related: Maker's Notebook online home Maker's Notebook released at Maker Faire More on the Maker's Notebook Cats like the Maker's Notebook too! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE Podcast | Digg this!

I spent some time with Amy & Ariel from Sparkle Labs, makers of the DIY electronics kit we have in our Maker Shed Store, check it out! Here's the M4V for iTunes, iPods, iPhones, etc... DIY Design Electronics Kit - Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys, and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more! Once you master the basics, you'll be ready to create your own! Everything you need to get started is right in the box, including switches, buttons, diodes, capacitors. transistors and regulators. Learn the amazing concepts of resistance, capacitance, voltage and current with the step-by-step project manual. Soon, you will be the electronics wizard! Great introduction to electronics for all ages. [Read More] [Comments]

Check out all the fun and excitement at this year's Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Here are just some of the amazing riding machines we saw.To download Maker Faire 2008 Vehicles MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. [Read More] [Comments]

Vroom! Power a balsa wood vehicle from the energy of a mousetrap! Fun and easy project! No mice were harmed during the filming of this video. To download Mousetrap Powered Vehicle MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. [Read More] [Comments]

Here are 8 ways to recycle the common 2 liter plastic soda bottle. Did you know...Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles an hour. We throw away about 868 million pounds of it annually (about 75% of what's produced). That's an estimated $130,000,000 worth of plastic! To download Water Bottle Recycled MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. [Read More] [Comments]

Do you like magic tricks? Here's a cool project that turns an ordinary Sharpie into a Telekinetic Pen! It shivers at your very command...or does it? To download Telekinetic Pen MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the MAKE 13 "Telekinetic Pen" & You can see that in our digital edition. [Read More] [Comments]

MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes This week's CRAFT Video Podcast is the second in a two part series on how to make intarsia/stranded knitting pattern from an image in Photoshop. We'll go from the gridded pattern we made last week to a knitted back panel for the sweater using a mixture of intarsia and stranded multicolor knitting. Related: Skeleton Cardigan Part 1 - CRAFT Video Podcast- Link. Skeleton Cardigan - CRAFT Pattern Podcast - Link. [Read More] [Comments]

ipod|mp4|mov|hd-appletv|3gp|3g2|pdf|itunes This weekend on Best of Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis, learn how to hack your brain by making Mitch Altman's Brain Machine! It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps sounds into your ears to make your brain waves sync up into beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves! Mitch invents cool things that make the world a better place. He's well known for the TV-B-GONE and this brain machine is his latest project. One of the cool things about this project, is that it builds on an open source project. Mitch used Lady Ada's open source MiniPOV and switched out LEDs and added new capacitors and resistors and then rewrote the firmware to make it into the brain machine. It's super cool when people make hardware open source so that others can work with it! Make sure to take pictures of your build and of you in your brain machine and upload them to the Make: flickr pool. Get the podcast and pdf downloaded automatically in itunes. - Link [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

mp4|mov|hd|3gp|3g2|itunes This week on Best of Weekend Projects, we look back at part two of the AHAB (High Altitude Balloon Adventure). In this epic Bre & Co. travel to Eastern Washington to launch a GPS and camera enabled balloon into NEAR SPACE! [Read More] [Comments]

mp4 | 3gp |3g2 | iTunes | blip.tv This week on the best of Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis, we join him in arms and learn how to make a trebuchet. With a trebuchet, you can smash your enemy's castle or at least fling the heads of enemy spies into their courtyard. In the old days, the most important metric of a trebuchet is that it can fire farther than your enemy's archers can shoot their arrows! In this podcast you'll see how to build a paperclip trebuchet and a medium sized trebuchet. The paperclip trebuchet can be made in under an hour and it teaches you a lot about how they work. The medium sized trebuchet took a little longer to cut, drill, and screw together, but it's not hard. Download the pdf for more instructions to make your own seige weapon! [Read More] [Comments]

mp4 | mov | hd-appletv| 3gp |3g2 | itunes | blip | youtube | pdf This month we continue the best of "Weekend Projects" with Bre Pettis. This particular episode was made to celebrate the One-Year Anniversary of Weekend Projects and features the flames to prove it! If you haven't seen this podcast, its a doozy. Be sure not to burn your house down, and join Bre as he makes a JAM JAR JET! This pulse jet works by igniting a flame, which pushes the gas out of the jar and then bit of a vacuum that it leaves sucks the air back in and the circle is repeated. Watch the video and download the pdf to learn how to make it! [Read More] [Comments]

mp4 | ipod | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | pdf | itunes | youtube Another bit of archived awesomeness from the Weekend Project vault! Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back. We did this because we made a bike out of parts found in the trash, but if you've got a working ten speed, you can just strip the derailleur, chop and flip the handlebars and switch out the back gears for a single speed freewheel gear. Single speed bikes are great for folks who live in a moderately flat city. There are less parts to get stolen and less parts to break. Don't miss a single video! You can get the Make: Video Podcast and PDFcast downloaded automatically by subscribing in itunes. - Link [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

mp4 | hd-appletv | youtube | blip | pdf The retro Weekend Project-o-thon continues! Joe Grand and Bre Pettis join forces to become the Awesome Electronics Workshop and introduce you to the Arrr-duino! In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of programming and setting up your arduino. Don't have one yet? You can get them in the Make: Store or build you're own! - Subscribe Link Arduino in the Make: Store - Link [Read More] [Comments]

mp4 | HD | Blip | Youtube | Subscribe The Weekend Projects Podcast Reruns continue with the Rodent Powered Nightlight! This was a project inspired by the writing of William Gurstelle. I've done a lot of his projects and they're always awesome! Make sure to check out the PDF for more detailed instructions! [Read More] [Comments]

Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft! mp4 | hd | youtube | blip | itunes | pdf While Bre takes a break, you get to revisit the best of Weekend Projects! Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit... Now you're ready for he ultimate in diy sports - Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun! Go download the instructions and make your own. I can't wait until people start posting their hovercrafts to the make flickr pool! Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv and youtube at your leisure! [Read More] [Comments]

MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe In this Weekend Projects podcast I'll walk you through the different parts of the hardware on the reprap. You'll want to take a look at the pdf for parts lists and more detailed info to get started on the hardware for this project. The software is still in development and until then you should be able to get your reprap working as a McWire Mill until the code gets done. Remember this is an experimental research community project! I really like this design. It's solid, easy to take apart and put together. It's also relatively transportable. Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that's perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week's sponsor of our weekend video podcast. Make a design, upload it - have it cut on laser cutter and delivered to you. If you're one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you'll get shipping for free. Now *before* you grab up all the free shipping requests please please upload your designs and consider *making a product* a lot of folks out there uploaded designs but didn't get a product made (yet) that's ok - but ideally Ponoko would like to see more folks getting something made to take advantage of the free shipping, thanks. Ok, click here to get going! [Read More] [Comments]

MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This week, take the first step towards making your own self-replicating rapid-prototyping robot! You can order up your boards, from the Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. Get your parts and solder these up and test them! Huge thanks goes out to Zach Hoeken, who inspired this project. Marius Kintel, Philipp Tiefenbacher, Benko, Red, and other folks at Metalab along with Michael Zeltner and Flo of the GRL Vienna crew pulled a lot of all nighters this week getting this robot together to present at Roboexotica. The best ways to make excellent new friends is to ask for help on an ambitious project! Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that's perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week's sponsor of our weekend video podcast. If you're one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you'll get shipping for free. Click here to get going [Read More] [Comments]

MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This weekend, make a flower out of 3 bills. This makes a great tip for a nice dinner out or just a way to spend 20 minutes or so folding paper! This project is from Craft: Magazine Volume 5 and the origami was designed by Robert J. Lang and Diagrammed by Jeffrey Rutzky. On a sidenote, I really like the music I hacked together for this video. I'm releasing it as an mp3 under the creative commons license! - MP3 Link Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that's perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week's sponsor of our weekend video podcast. If you're one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you'll get shipping for free. Click here to get going [Read More] [Comments]

MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | YouTube | PDF | Subscribe Sometimes it can be so frustrating to have people you want to give a T-shirt to who are far away and inaccessible on the upper decks of stadiums. They wave their hands in desperation with such hope and joy at the possibility of receiving a T-shirt from you, but you know in your heart that they won't, because your throwing arm just isn't capable of hurling a T-shirt into the upper decks ... Fear not, your problem may be solved this weekend if you attempt to build this awesome air-powered, solenoid control valved, tough-looking T-shirt cannon! I collaborated with William Gurstelle, author of Whoosh, Boom, Splat. It's fun and exciting to work with Bill! Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that's perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week's sponsor of our weekend video podcast. If you're one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you'll get shipping for free. Click here to get going [Read More] [Comments]

For this week's Weekend Project Podcast we're making sure you've seen our latest Maker Faire video "The future is... Maker Faire Austin - adventures in time! " Baron Von PT and the Brebot travel forward in time to gander the FUTURE and the future is Maker Faire Austin - October 20-21, 2007. View the video (above) get it as a MP4 or just subscribe via iTunes! Maker Faire is family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset, including Swap-O-Rama-Rama, the King of Fling Catapult Competition, and Edible Austin's DIY Food - Link. When: October 20-21, 2007 Were: at Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane, Austin, Texas. Hours: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm. Get your tickets now! - Link. Below we have a recap of Maker Faire 2007 Bay Area just to give you (more of) a taste of what to expect next week! Maker Faire 2007 Bay area: Time lapse video of Maker Faire (outside) - Link. More: Maker Faire Video Report - Link.Hack Your Brain - Make Video Podcast - Link.Make Mousey The Junkbot - Make: Video Podcast - Link.Make a Balloon Flinging Siege Weapon - Make: Video Podcast - Link. [Read More] [Comments]

mp4 | hd-appletv | ">youtube | blip | itunes | pdf This weekend make a theremin, the first electronic musical instruments that you don't have to touch to play! Leon Theremin invented this in 1918 and Bolshevik leader Lenin liked it enough to take lessons and ordered 600 to be made and sent around the world to show how awesome Russian electronic music was. I made this one using the Harrison Instruments Minimum Theremin kit and put it in a housing that a friend gave me. It works and it's really fun to play! [Read More] [Comments]