Traveling Vine iCozy
By Vickie Howell

During these tough economic times the only traveling some of us get to do is across the world wide web. Thanks to cool gadgets like the iPhone, though, that internet trip can be taken anytime and anywhere! Every travel buddy clearly deserves proper attire — so if you’ve ever thought about journeying into the land of knitted lace, then this Traveling Vine iCozy’s the project for you!

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Wanna spice up your summer dinning table? Make the kids want to eat more fruit? Need a shower of compliments from your guests a-la ‘you are better than Martha Stewart!’?



These mundane problems and more can be solved with one monkey face! All you need is a cantaloupe, a serving dish and couple of p…


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Here at MAKE, we’re lucky enough to have a rotating stable of interns who build and test most of the projects before we go to print each issue (and sometimes photograph any missing step shots). They also haul supplies from the warehouse, shop for tools and materials, and come up with projects of their own on a surprisingly regular basis. We also work them to near death before, during, and after each Maker Faire — packing pallets and building projects to send to the fairgrounds beforehand; setting up booths and greeting the public for 12-plus hours a day during the event; and unpacking trucks when everything comes back to our offices after the fact.

In exchange, they get to have one of the most highly coveted jobs in the land. Seriously. I’ve had top-level editors ask if they could trade their job for an internship at MAKE, not to mention engineers, the parents of our interns, and just about anyone who gets a look at the Make: Labs, where the interns build, sew, hack, hammer, drill, and solder day in and day out.

Now we’re offering our website readers a look into the fabulous lives of the MAKE interns. Twice a month, the current interns will offer up stories about the projects they’re working on, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they plan on building in the near future.

Jacob McKenzie, one of our two original interns who began working for us in the fall of 2005, has always said that we’ve pretty much ruined him for life in terms of ever having a cooler job. Nonetheless, Jake left his internship in 2007 to finish his bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley. He graduated with a 4.0 GPA and a degree in mechanical engineering. During the 2008 winter break, we called him up and asked him to demonstrate a few of our previous projects for the TV show, Quest, which were well-received and a blast to see get filmed in our very own Make: Labs. Most recently, Jake was accepted at both Stanford and MIT for graduate school. After much thought, he chose MIT, where he’ll begin the next part of his journey this fall. He’s promised to keep in touch, and let us know if he ever finds a cooler job than MAKE Intern. He remains unconvinced that he will, but his future looks bright to us.

Tune in on Wednesday, July 29, for the first of many first-person accounts about interning at MAKE!

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I recently moved to a new apartment, and so we are currently using a small table in the corner of our living room for my office. My old office had a desktop setup, with a flat panel monitor. I considered using the monitor from this setup and keyboard and mouse connected to my new laptop, but ultim…


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Just a reminder that the Officially Unofficial Maker Faire Africa is scheduled to take place August 14-16 in Accra, Ghana. We hope to have some people on the ground there and will be covering it here on Make: Online. If you want to keep abreast of Faire happenings, they have a blog on the MFA website. They’re also looking for donations to help make the fair happen. There’s a donation widget on the main page.

Maker Faire Africa

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What I#25;ve basically done is set up a mono connection between the MP3 or Media source of your choosing, your computer, Cassette esk, walkie-talkie, and directly hot wired it to the speaker via alligator clamps.



As always, tutorial/demo video:



PLEASEif you watch it, follow this link and rate it,…


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Lynn, from ioBridge, sent us a link to this project by Matt Morey which uses the ioBridge IO-204 and the PHP Widget Control API to allow him to send commands to his home automation system via Twitter. Using this set-up, he can write messages to an LCD screen, get sensor values, and turn off the lights.

Introducing http://twitter.com/MattsOffice

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• Washing machine sends messages to Twitter when the clothes are done…
• A Twitter-enabled toilet
• HOW TO - Make your own Tweet-a-Watt

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The episode of the Martha Stewart Show, with MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder, aired again today. If you’re coming to MAKE for the first time as a result of seeing the show: Welcome! Make yourself at home. If you’d like to learn more about Maker Media, our magazine MAKE, our websites Make: Online and CRAFT, and our other projects, check out this introduction to Maker Media. If you’re looking for more info on the projects Mark demo’d on the program, here’s a link to the project PDFs.

And if you have any questions about what we do, feel free to post them in the comments below.

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MAKE Editor Mark F. on The Martha Stewart Show this Monday (with a link to the actual episode online)

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From the MAKE Flickr pool

Another great idea for a business card, Adrian’s laser-cut card transforms into a handy little caliper. Plans are available on Thingiverse.

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Adafruit’s business card makes art!

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Threadbanger has a collection of tips and instructions for making your own natural dyes for fabrics.

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Ask CRAFT: Tea-Staining Bed Linens

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