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Pictured above, a counterfeit Arduino I’m a 15-minute walk from Canal Street, NYC, home of counterfeit everything. Men and women from around the world stand shoulder to shoulder shouting “Looyee-Vatton, DVD, Roll-Ex.” Tourists flock to this location looking for a cheap deal on a knockoff purse or watch — some tourists ... Read More

Steve Hoefer likes to wander the aisles of the hardware store in his spare time, always on the lookout for that something something that strikes his fancy. He may not need it for a current project, but it’s bound to come in handy sometime. When he spotted some curious PVC ... Read More

Electronotes is a newsletter on electronic music synthesis that was started in 1972 by Cornell EE professor Bernie Hutchins. It’s a great source for electronic music schematics and circuit ideas. Early contributors to the newsletter were people like Robert Moog and Don Buchla, and a lot of interesting modular synthesizers ... Read More

If you’ve ever thought that your BMX bike was lacking the requisite dj gear, you’re in luck. Designed for an ad for Japanese bicycle sharing service Cogoo, the Turntable Rider adds a handlebar-mounted crossfader, jog wheel controller to the rim, and various other sensors to trigger preprogrammed loops to accompany ... Read More

In honor of the classic video game Frogger on its 30th birthday, my friend Tyler DeAngelo conceived a version of the game that uses a webcam to track the live position of actual cars on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Those positions are used as obstacles that the poor ... Read More

Julien Deswaef of Brussels, Belgium, designed this bench built from a shipping pallet. Get from a standard (Epal-Eur) pallet to a public bench in just a couple easy steps. The idea came while thinking about urban hacking or how to reclaim public space with easy to find material and tools in ... Read More

The above is a modified image from page 193 of our best-selling book Make: Electronics by Charles Platt. It illustrates the 7432-series Integrated Circuit, a Quad 2-input OR gate IC, which is the centerpiece (along with a pair of 555 Timers) for Game Show Buttons, a quiz show circuit for ... Read More

We’ve written about Concrete Canvas before, but I thought this was an interesting application. This stuff is pretty much exactly what it sounds like—a fabric impregnated with cement (though I doubt the cloth is actually canvas). Here designer Florian Schmid has wrapped the dry material around a demountable ... Read More

Ask MAKE is a monthly column where we answer your questions. Send your vexing conundrums on any aspect of making to askmake@makezine.com. If we don’t have the answer, we’ll scare up somebody who does. Phil asks: I’m curious to learn more about some of the good “DIY algae growing at home” web ... Read More

For people who raise livestock near Nairobi National Park, lions are a major-scale pest. Two years ago, Richard Turere, who was responsible for herding his family’s flock, noticed that lions never struck ranches where people were walking around with flashlights. So the self-taught maker, who is now 13, rigged up ... Read More