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Nov 20, 2024 | 
makezine.com | Hep Svadja |Sam Freeman |Craig Couden |Gareth Branwyn
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In this video, hear from makers who went from 3D printing props in their garages to working on major Hollywood films.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
makezine.com | Craig Couden
Maker Faire’s best kept secret is the wealth of hands-on activities that give you more than just a souvenir to take home, but knowledge to incorporate into your projects going forward. Here are a few exhibits and workshops (which are great for young and old makers alike) to keep an eye out for at Maker Faire Bay Area, Oct 18–20. And if you still haven’t picked up tickets, we’ve got you covered there, too.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
makezine.com | Craig Couden |Sid Drmay
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard. Currently the certification database lists over 2784 individual certifications! In May we added 21 new certifications from badges to games to flumes, and everything in between.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
makezine.com | Caleb Kraft |Craig Couden
With all the hubbub around generative AI, it isn’t a stretch to start wondering in what new areas of making we might see this stuff proliferate. You can easily have ChatGPT write text for you or analyze your writing. You can instruct Midjourney, Dall-E, and other image generators to draw highly detailed, pixel-perfect creations in a variety of styles. What about 3D printing though? Can you type into a text box and obtain the perfect custom 3D printable model? Right now the answer is: kind of.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden
The ProS3 u.FL is an updated development board from Unexpected Maker featuring Espressif’s latest ESP32-S3 microcontroller. The main feature of this chip is the 2.4 GHz 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 support. We opted for the version of the board having a u.FL connector instead of an on-board chip antenna. This allows the maker to attach whatever antenna is most appropriate for the project, and mount it away from the microcontroller board.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden
Adafruit has been building a number of Feathers around the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s RP2040 microcontroller, each with a different set of peripherals squeezed into the Feather’s small form factor. This iteration of the Feather is aimed at making portable “props” with interactive lights and sound. Really any interactive device with lights and sound can benefit from this compact and capable development board.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden
The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with RFM95 LoRa Radio – 915MHz – RadioFruit and STEMMA QT (Feather LoRa from here on out) is a microcontroller paired with a LoRa 900MHz band radio for data communication. LoRa, short for long range, is a data radio standard for low-data rate, long-distance communication. Its range will depend on the antenna you choose to connect to it, but a simple single-wire antenna should be able to cover more than a mile with the 100mW power output of the transmitter.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden
The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI is a microcontroller board capable of DVI digital video output on an HDMI port. That it is possible for a general-purpose microcontroller to generate a DVI signal is impressive, but it requires running the RP2040 beyond its limits. When the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced its RP2040 microcontroller, one standout feature was the Programmable IO (PIO) peripheral.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
makezine.com | Paul Henley |Craig Couden
If you ever thought your microcontroller board needed more LEDs, the FeatherS2 Neo might be for you. In addition to status LEDs, It features a bright 5×5 RGB LED matrix near the middle of the board. Unexpected Maker suggests you could use this for debugging output, even using it as a character display with scrolling text. The default program on the board gives you a scrolling “Hello” when it is plugged in, demonstrating its viability.
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May 2, 2023 | 
makezine.com | Craig Couden
The new issue of Make: is making its way to subscriber mailboxes and the digital version is available for Make: members and digital subscribers starting today.
