An Oscilloscope is an electronic measurement devices that is handy to have in the workshop for observing the characteristics of a circuit in real time, debugging, and hardware hacking. Joe Grand, of Grand Idea Studio, introduces us to the use of oscilloscopes this weekend and shows how it works.
Want to know more? Check out these tutorials!
Doctronics Oscilloscope Tutorial - Link
Williamson Labs Oscilloscope Tutorial - Link
Trinity Collegt Oscilloscope Tutorial - Link
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This weekend, you can learn a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building. In addition, Paula Kieko breaks down the math and physics for you so you can calculate exactly how fast your egg is going at impact. If you want to have fun and get smarter, organize an egg drop in your neighborhood!
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This Make: Video Podcast brings you another tutorial featuring hardware hacker Joe Grand. This weekend, dust off that multimeter and learn how to use it! In this video you’ll learn how to check for continuity, measure resistance and measure voltage. These measurements are really handy to have in your bag of tricks if you are messing around with electronics. Make sure to download the accompanying pdf so that you can print it out and have it next to you as you become familiar with these essential multimeter skills.
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In this Weekend Projects podcast, Bre Pettis is joined by circuit bender Justin Gerardy to explain how to circuit bend. Then we bent up a Speak and Read and an Omnichord. With the omnichord, we found everything by probing around for cool sounds. If you’ve never done this, you’ve gotta try it out and circuit bend up some 80’s electronics!
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In this weeks Make: PDF Podcast, you’ll download a good chunk of circuit-bending instructions. First you’ll notice the photos of the Speak and Read and Omnichord circuit-bending projects and then you’ll find Reed Ghazala’s Incantor Tutorial for making a machine from the Speak and Spell family come to life.
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Have you ever wondered what birds live in your neighborhood? With the birdfeeder webcam that Steve and i will teach you to make this weekend, you’ll be able to find out! Using motion detection webcam software, you’ll be able to document every bird that shows up at the feeder and get a picture of it whenever it moves. Check the instruction blogpost for the pdf instructions.
Of course webcams have been around forever, but with these instructions, they’re easy! You can also use this motion detection feature for security purposes!
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Joe Grand and I got together this last year to shoot this 19 minute video that teaches you how to solder and desolder. This is required watching for anyone wanting to get into diy electronics.
In this video you’ll learn lots of tips and tricks that will make you a much better solderer. I grew up teaching myself to solder and since making this video with Joe, my soldering skills have improved a lot! I don’t overheat parts, I make less cold-solder joints, and in general my soldering is significantly neater.
In this video, you’ll learn the three ways to desolder parts too, which is a really important skill for circuit bending and hardware hacking. Learning how to use solder-wick, a solder sucker, and the Chip Quik kit will give you extra skill points and make you an awesome electronic deconstructionist.
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Build a bridge out of popsicle sticks and hot glue and then stand on it! Will it hold your weight, or will it collapse and send shards of popsicle sticks flying? There’s only one way to find out, get yourself some popsicle sticks, warm up that hot glue gun, make a plan and build it!
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A little housekeeping for the MAKE store and last minute gifts…
The MAKE elves will be taking some well deserved time off to spend time with their families and we won’t be shipping any orders placed after this Thursday 12pm (PST) until the first week of January.
If you want your order for Christmas we recommend using FedEx 2-DAY and ordering by Dec 19th 12pm (PST) or order by Wednseday night and select Next Day FedEx shipping.
But don’t fret - you can still order GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS and GIFT CERTIFICATES AT ANY TIME, ALL THE TIME.
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MAKE gift subscriptions start with the latest issues AND the giftee gets the digital edition for free! - Link.
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Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft!
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!
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Like Doctor Frankenstein scouring the countryside for dead bodies to put together, so you, the camera hacker will scour garage sales, thrift stores and ebay to find old cameras to rip apart and put back together in creative new ways.
Watch this video to learn how to take apart two cameras to make one super wide angle camera!
Make sure to check out the instruction blog post with more details and a pdf with instructions and links.
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Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race!
I’m confident that you can figure out how to make cars and contraptions and have races without a kit, but I like kits when I’m learning about something new like nitinol, which I don’t have very much experience with. Then I can take what I’ve learned and do other things with it. When I learn about something new, I try out kits so that I can have some experience with something before hacking it apart and doing other things with it. If you’re into kits, we’ve just added a ton of them to the store to check out.
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This weekend it’s time for a robot race! Put together some robots and race them for fun.
I started this week by learning about nitinol, which is a shape changing metal alloy made up of nickel and titanium. I did some brainstorming. What could you do with a wire that I can activate to make it 4% shorter? I decided on a lightswitch activator. I hooked up one side of the battery to the nitinol wire and then put a switch between the battery and the other side of the wire so that when I turn on the switch it feeds electricity to the nitinol wire and heats it up. The heat makes it contract and pull the lightswitch down. In the picture you can see that I put a dowel there to hold the waire away from the switch. Although not actually useful, […]
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Volume 8 of MAKE features pinball machine restoration in its Toys and Games section. In this Maker File, we visit the Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Arcadium in Alameda, California. Michael Schiess is the proprietor of Lucky Ju Ju, and a group of us went there to check out the place and take some photograph of pinball machines. Michael gave us a tour of some of his favorite pinball machines, starting with Fireball and then Lady Luck, and as we walk through the place we learn a bit about the history of pinball machines and what makes a good machine.
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Previous Maker Files:
The Maker File: Interview with Marcell Mars - Link.
The Maker File: Colin Berry reads Spinout - Link.
The Maker File: A Tour of TechShop - Link.
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