In this issue’s cover story, we go inside how an FX team built a workingR/C prop of the famous disembodied hand “Thing” from Netflix’s Wednesday,and how you can bring your own props and robots to life with channelmixing, telemetry, and on-the-fly programming using OpenTX for your R/Ctransmitter. Then, we dive into exciting DIY music projects, starting with the burgeoning synth DIY (SDIY) scene. Get the ins and outs of how to kit out your modular synth setup, then build your own simple synth and learn what makes it squeal with the Mt. Brighton Avalanche Oscillator. Or, go low-tech with a great-sounding Soda Bottle Marimba you can build for pennies, or 3D print your own speakers and instruments. Plus, 33 projects and skills, including: Program animations for mechanical flip-dot displays Sharpen your knife skills by carving a chain from a tree branch Etch custom designs into brass using salt water and electricity Carve two different universal clamps for your CNC projects Learn tips and techniques for getting glass-like 3D prints from clear filaments And much more!
Boards are back and more powerful than ever! With fresh offerings from Arduino and Raspberry Pi and powerhouse boards like DFRobot's LattePanda Sigma and Nvidia's Jetson Orin Nano, it�¢â?¬â?¢s easier than ever to put epic computing power for your next project in the palm of your hand. In this issue of Make: we track new trends in microcontrollers and single board computers, and show you the ones we're most excited about. And if you still can't find the right board for you, we show you how to design and manufacture your own custom chips for cheap! Next, use machine learning and Particle to automagically unmute your mic when someone says "You're muted!" Then, use a Waveshare RP2040 board to build a mini oscilloscope for your workbench for about $25. Annual Boards Guide: Meet the hottest new boards, and compare specs for 80+ microcontrollers and single board computers in our annual comparison guide. Plus, 31 projects: Craft an illuminated, animated, tessellated tote bag using LED pebble lights and 3D-printed fabric Build an optical transmitter for covert communication Sew a soft touch panel matrix for wearable electronics Super-size classic wooden Froebel blocks for a fun playground experience Harvest disposable vape batteries and give e-waste a 2nd life Build a metal detector circuit, 3D print a Kirby fume extractor, or laser-cut an emoji fortune teller And much more!
It's been another tumultuous year in the world of embedded electronics: Supply chain snags have scarcely relented, while new chips jostle for position as the go-to for makers. In this issue of Make:, we look at how scarcity is affecting the industry and impacting new and stalwart boards alike. We explore how RISC-V chip architecture is putting open silicon in the hands of makers. And if your favorite board is out of stock, we offer smart substitutes. Also included is our annual Make: Guide to Boards comparing 79 of the hottest microcontrollers, single-board computers, and FPGAs â?? with an emphasis on those you can actually get your hands on. Plus, 25 projects to make, including: Use full-color LED strings and a Pixelblaze controller to make cuddly animated pillows. Stitch a stylish and sturdy roll-up tool carrier for on-the-go fixes and builds. Convert your 3D printer to 5-axis and print the impossible. Take control of smart home gadgets with Z-Wave and Raspberry Pi. Make a fun paper airplane that blows bubbles as it soars. And much more!
A fascinating study of the global Maker Movement that explores how ‘making’ impacts our personal and social development—perfect for enthusiastic DIY-ers Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us. As the internet thrives and world-changing technologies—like 3D printers and tiny microcontrollers—become increasingly affordable, people around the world are moving away from the passivity of one-size-fits-all consumption and command-and-control models of education and business. Free to Make explores how making revives abandoned and neglected urban areas, reinvigorates community spaces like libraries and museums, and even impacts our personal and social development—fostering a mindset that is engaged, playful, and resourceful. Free to Make asks us to imagine a world where making is an everyday occurrence in our schools, workplaces, and local communities, grounding us in the physical world and empowering us to solve the challenges we face.
Paper printers can print in color, why not 3D printers? Well, now they can! New multicolor and multi-material 3D printers are more approachable than ever �??�?�¢?? and they�??�?�¢??re good! In this issue of Make: we go in depth with the latest multi-filament 3D printing systems from Bambu Labs, Prusa Research, and others to show you how to get the best color 3D prints. But even though you can print multicolor pieces, should you? From waste towers to orientation issues, we walk you through the pros and cons of printing all-in-one color pieces versus assembling separate color parts. Then, get the download on next-level resin printing that can produce pieces in literal seconds! Next, take a look at HueForge, a surprising technique for 3D printing full-color reliefs that look like digital paintings. And, can AI make ready-to-print 3D objects? The answer is �??�?�¢?�??�?�¦ Kind of! Plus, 21 projects for you to make, including: Craft a cuddly companion robot that moves and lights up through sight and touch Make a DIY mobility walker for cheap Create a highly customizable alarm clock with a pixel display Build a ham radio antenna out of an actual tin of ham! Make a giant LED Ouija board and send spooky messages via Wi-Fi Turn a hardwood cutting board into a gorgeous end table Design your vinyl cutter projects for fast weeding and application Make a simple animatronic robot with AI that knows how to follow your face And much more!
Cosplay is the perfect gateway to making. What better way to celebrate fantasy worlds than to role-play as your favorite characters â?? and build versatile skills along the way! In the latest issue of Make: we show you how to use EVA foam to make realistic fake leather, weld together 3D prints for BIG armor builds, and use Bekonix's easy drag-and-drop timelines to program cosplay lights, motors, and audio. Then, take it further by conceptualizing your own original character from the ground up. Plus, star cosplayers share their favorite tools, techniques, and communities. Includes 42 projects you can make: Create a camera obscura to view the upcoming solar eclipse Sew versatile squishy sensors Build your own gadget geocache puzzle Save big $$ with a DIY photo light meter Track periods and the lunar calendar offline with an illuminating display How to 3D print in metal And much more!
Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it's made, where it's made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the ''renaissance of making, '' an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us. As the internet thrives and world-changing technologies-like 3D printers and tiny microcontrollers-become increasingly affordable, people around the world are moving away from the passivity of one-size-fits-all consumption and command-and-control models of education and business. Free to Make explores how making revives abandoned and neglected urban areas, reinvigorates community spaces like libraries and museums, and even impacts our personal and social development-fostering a mindset that is engaged, playful, and resourceful. Free to Make asks us to imagine a world where making is an everyday occurrence in our schools, workplaces, and local communities, grounding us in the physical world and empowering us to solve the challenges we face
The Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help city leaders make even more informed decisions. Maker City Playbook Chapter 1: Introduction and a Call to Action Chapter 2: The Maker movement and Cities Chapter 3: The Maker City as Open Ecosystem Chapter 4: Education and Learning in the Maker City Chapter 5: Workforce Development in the Maker City Chapter 6: Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain inside the Maker City Chapter 7: Real Estate Matters in the Maker City Chapter 8: Civic Engagement in the Maker City Chapter 9: The Future of the Maker City Maker City Project is a collaboration between the Kauffman Foundation, the Gray Area for the Arts, and Maker Media.
For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. Most of the things that you can do with these programs can be done interactively with a text editor. However, using sed and awk can save many hours of repetitive work in achieving the same result.To master sed and awk you must thoroughly understand UNIX regular expressions, and understand the syntax of sed and awk commands. This handbook treats regular expressions as a foundation for learning aboutsed and awk and contains a comprehensive treatment of sed and awk syntax. It emphasizes the kinds of practical problems that sed and awk can help users to solve, with many useful example scripts and programs.Contents include: A tutorial showing basic operations of sed and awk Regular expression syntax and examples Basic and advanced sed commands Features of awk (plus gawk and nawk) Common programming constructs Advanced topics User-contributed scripts
Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how its made, where its made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the "Brenaissance of making", an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us. As the internet thrives and world-changing technologieslike 3D printers and tiny microcontrollersbecome increasingly affordable, people around the world are moving away from the passivity of one-size-fits-all consumption and command-and-control models of education and business. Free to Make explores how making revives abandoned and neglected urban areas, reinvigorates community spaces like libraries and museums, and even impacts our personal and social developmentfostering a mindset that is engaged, playful, and resourceful. Free to Make asks us to imagine a world where making is an everyday occurrence in our schools, workplaces, and local communities, grounding us in the physical world and empowering us to solve the challenges we face.
In Sed & Awk, Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins describe two text manipulation programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer's toolbox. This new edition covers the Sed and Awk systems as they are now mandated by the POSIX standard.
As technology (seemingly) marches ever forward, makers are thirsty to get their hands on the latest gadgets and gear. But you don’t always need “new” to have fun. Whether it’s rosy nostalgia or a healthy respect for what engineers of old (or the late 1900s as the kids say) were able to achieve with limited resources, there’s whole megabytes to love and learn about the technology of yesterday. In this retro-themed issue of Make: we show you how to play your favorite old-school video games by building your own DIY arcade game, from a full-size cabinet to a tiny programmable microcade. Next, 35 years later the Nintendo Game Boy is still going strong! Cat Graffam tells how she and many others fell in love with the Game Boy Camera and developed a playable art gallery to showcase photos from the community, while Nikola Whallon walks through adding the Pro-Sound Mod to your Game Boy to add more professional sound to your chiptune jams. Then, 18-year-old Daniel Bunting talks about his process for cutting custom small-batch records using polycarbonate discs. Brian Johnson reports on the serendipitous discovery of a cache of 1980s era hardware that jump-started a community around the long defunct NABU computer system. And finally, read a love letter to PC sound cards, and how maker Ian Scott has worked to recreate the unique “tracker” sound with a Raspberry Pi Pico. Plus, 45+ projects including: Build or 3D print a camera lucida that lets you draw accurately by tracing real life Install a microcontroller-powered scale on your espresso machine to pull the perfect shot every time Track your furry, four-legged friends using GPS and your own LoRa network Add polyphonic sound to your projects the easy way with WVR, a no-code, Wi-Fi audio board Make a thermal printing photo booth robot out of a vintage TLR camera Columnist Charles Platt pays tribute after the recent passing of seminal author Don Lancaster, who explained the mysteries of logic chips for generations of DIY hobbyists Pro tips for making the most of your laser projects with LightBurn software Build fun, simple stomp rockets using PVC pipe and soda bottles And more!
This book introduces users to Mosaic and its use in navigating and finding information on the World Wide Web. It shows how you can use Mosaic to replace some of the traditional Internet functions like ftp, gopher, archie, and veronica. For advanced users the book describes how to add external viewers to Mosaic, and how to customize the Mosaic interface. Includes Enhanced NCSA Mosaic V1.0 for the Macintosh software on disk.
It’s aliiiive! Bring characters to life for Halloween, movie making, and live shows with the mechanical wonders of animatronics! In this issue of Make: follow along as FX designer Jesse Velez builds a custom haunted deer animatronic based on the Evil Dead series. Next, we show you how to make a set of 3D-printed ghosts dance to music using Bottango’s free animatronic software. Then add some personality to your next creature build with a pair of simple, lifelike mechatronic eyes, and take it a step further with a mechanism to simulate realistic breathing patterns. Plus, 33+ projects: Use projection mapping to make any building a screen for multimedia shows, at Halloween or anytime Build a sunlight sensing plant rotator so your leafy friends always get the best light Learn to make perfectly aligned vector images from skewed photographs Explore hidden frequencies with an EMF audio amplifier Make a traditional tortilla press for the freshest tacos Hack a monster toy with a simple LED circuit for a whimsical desktop status light Solve 3D design problems using ChatGPT And much more!
What's new in digital fabrication? So much! In Make: Vol. 84 we show you how adding dedicated SBCs, like a Raspberry Pi, make 3D printers vastly smarter and up to five times faster. New laser engravers can cut metal for under $2,000, and cheap workhorse diode lasers are everywhere. Pro-level 3D scanning is on your phone, and 3D design software has a flavor for every style of maker. Now's the time to level up! Plus, we dive into how makers can (ethically) use generative A.I. to create audio, images, text, code, and 3D models for your next project! Plus, 23 Projects & Skills, including: Build a $30 Vertical Wind Turbine Create Wearable Soft Speakers Wow your friends with a DIY Ambient TV Backlight Sew decorative Light-Up Zodiac Embroidery Get involved with Amateur Radio and Software Defined Radio (SDR) And much more!
From the people who put an armadillo on the cover of a system administration book, comes the first collection of the computer underground hieroglyphics we call "smileys". Originally inserted into email messages to denote "said with a cynical smile", smileys now run rampant throughout the electronic mail culture. This book advances the state-of-the-art of smileys, including such information as Smiley Comics and "Where's Smiley?
Responding effectively to emergencies, from short power outages on up to natural disasters lasting weeks or months, is almost always a result of preparation. With a little forethought, know-how, and advance planning, makers with a DIY and community mindset are fantastically positioned to help themselves and others in extreme situations. In this issue of Make:, get a crash course in emergency prep with our HUGE maker‚s survival guide filled with projects and resources that you can get started with today. Next, MacGyver creator Lee Zlotoff explains how a maker mindset can help you manage when a crisis seems overwhelming. Get an overview of how the growing Internet of Production helps communities respond faster and cheaper to disasters with locally-sourced resources and rapid manufacturing. Then, build a solar-powered lamp out of a soda bottle that‚s both decorative and resourceful. And, learn how to “nuke-proof” your ride from EMPs with superfast surge suppression. Plus, 55 projects you can build, including: Build a light-up kaleidoscope using wireless LEDs Make an easy solar-powered phone charger Twist bamboo to make a Japanese shiorido garden gate Make a weather station using battery-free perpetual computing Halloween projects: Smoking skull mask, edible eyeballs, spooky costumes, and more!
There's so much buzz about peer-to-peer these days, it's hard to separate facts from fiction. How do the peer-to-peer companies stack up? Which technologies are credible, and which will shake up our notions of how people use computers? More importantly, how do you see through the hype to the underlying architectures that yield opportunities for creating lasting value? The "2001 P2P Networking Overview" from O'Reilly Research is a comprehensive look at peer-to-peer from business and technical perspectives. We describe the state of the industry and offer our opinions about where it's going to go next, with hard data to back us up. What you will find in the report: Company profilesIn-depth explanations of the underlying technologiesP2P services: present and futureAnalysis of the hype: what the press gets wrongEstimates of mindshare and community sizeOur forecasts for the field About O'Reilly Research: In O'Reilly's book publishing business, web sites, and conferences, we've become famous for providing no-nonsense, in-depth information and insights about important technologies. We watch what leading-edge developers are doing, so we can tell when their work is about to "cross the chasm" and hit the mainstream. We provide the information that builds the bridge. O'Reilly combines extensive experience in new and emerging technologies with insider connection to the development community. At O'Reilly Research, we augment these insights with our exclusive statistical and computational techniques tailored for modeling, condensing, summarizing, and forecasting trends in software development.
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