Patti Schiendelman, Maker Media index, and Genteel Recessionista, posted a piece about using Cat-5 cable to create a garden trellis on her fence. She writes: Last year I did a webby-looking twine support for my green beans - it worked really well, plus it was entertaining to look at while waiting fo...

The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, "lost" technology, and the make-do, improvised "street tech" of village artisans and tradespeople from around ...

In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and inco...

Stefan Hermann, a hardware hacker in Berlin, has come up with an interesting suite of plug-in sub-circuit prototyping modules for Arduino, called JEP ("Just Enough Prototyping") Shields. JEP shields are complete circuits for Arduino microcontrollers. They are modular in construction such that the fu...

People sometimes ask us what's the big deal with the Maker's Notebook. Why should they care about a book largely filled with blank pages? Well, obviously we think there are all sorts of reasons to care. We spent a lot of time designing a book optimized for makers. It's hard-bound, sturdy, contains h...

While many of us wish we lived in the world promised to us by the sci-fi movies and shows we grew up with, so far, here in the 21st century, we have a robot that sort of vacuums an uncluttered living space and runty humanoid toybots that make fart jokes. Hey, it's a start. But for those of us with v...

The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, "lost" technology, and the make-do, improvised "street tech" of village artisans and tradespeople from around ...

In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and inco...

Spatula Tzar, who brought us the controversial fly plane, offers a number of other interested projects, including this ball mill (a device used to crush metals and chemicals into a fine powder), made from mainly junk lying around the lab. Ball Mill Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articl...

Jared Bouck, of Inventgeek, is at it again. He's just posted details of a paintball turret gun that's been in the works for several years: This paintball turret system has the ability to be configured as a wired or wireless platform and we have even built it in a way to be portable for rapid backpac...