Make: Holiday Gift Guide, Massive Millennium Falcon, and Liquid Stone

The latest news from Make: [Make:]( Tuesday November 28, 2017 [Make: Holiday Gift Guide]( We’re past Thanksgiving, which means it’s time to gear up for the holiday gift giving season! If you’re having trouble coming up with the perfect idea for that special maker in your life (or looking for something to put on your own list), check out our Holiday Gift Guide. It’s full of goodies for both aspiring and experienced makers. [READ MORE]( [Capture Moving Timelapse Video With This Motion Control Camera Slider]( The best way to take your timelapse videos to the next level is to move the camera while it’s capturing them, but this is tricky to do unless you have some sort of fancy motion controller. This design will allow you to pan a camera while it’s capturing your timelapse. Want to see it in action? We're live-building this project on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 4pmPST. [Join us]( [Read More]( [“Death Star Dad” Returns With a Massive Millennium Falcon on His House]( Two years ago, Colby Powell, along with his family and friends, created a 23-foot replica of the Death Star atop his house. Now, Powell has once again transformed his San Francisco suburb into a sci-fi spectacle, by building a different Star Wars icon: the Millennium Falcon. [Read More]( [These Stones Come to Life With Clever Sculptural Effects]( José Manuel Castro López accomplishes the seemingly impossible: sculpting stone to look like soft putty. Amazingly enough, there’s no evidence that any of the stones have actually been worked on by tools. It’s almost a little unnerving. [Read More]( Make: Gift Guide — Kid's Corner Get more of our Kid's Corner picks at [makezine.com/giftguide](. Featured Product: Robot Subscription that Inspires Your Child Month After Month [Make: Gift Guide - GoBox]( Inspire your child to learn coding and robotics with [GoBox]( the first robot subscription. It includes a complete robot kit with instructions and videos to build their own robot! Monthly Missions are in story format, making it fun for kids to learn how to code their robot and 9 different sensors that are included in the subscription. A few more favorites: [Circuit Scribe Ultimate Kit]( [BrushBot Party Pack]( [How to Use a Breadboard! Kit]( [How to Use a Breadboard! Kit]( [SunPrint Paper Kit]( [SunPrint Paper Kit]( [If Your Local TechShop Closed, Here Are Some Resources for You]( TechShop’s closure presents a very real problem for the more than 9,000 members they boasted. What will they do now? We’ve compiled a list of makerspaces and resources available to creators that live in the 10 locations where TechShop once stood in the U.S. Check it out. [Read More]( [Maker Share: Solar Soil Moisture Meter]( Build Becky Stern’s solar powered soil moisture monitor. It uses an ESP8266 Wi-Fi microcontroller to check the soil humidity periodically. It automatically triggers an IFTTT action whenever the humidity drops. Everything’s waterproof so it can be left outside! [Read More]( More from Make: Who doesn’t love those old industrial films from the mid-20th century? Via Mark Frauenfelder (at Boing Boing) [comes a video from the 1950s]( that shows and describes all of the parts of a watch and how they all work together. Fatwood, or lighter wood, is a resin-heavy area within pine wood. The resin settles into the base of trees, making stumps a great source of it, and at the joints where the limbs and tree trunk meet. For bushcrafters and those looking to start fires in the wild, [fatwood is a great source of tinder](. [Upcoming Maker Faires]( » [Maker Faire Rome]( (Italy): December 1–3 » [Conrad Mini Maker Faire]( (Germany): December 2–3 » [DTLA Mini Maker Faire]( (California): December 2 Find a Maker Faire near you on the [Maker Faire map](. [FIND A FAIRE]( Maker Media, Inc | 1700 Montgomery St, Suite 240 | San Francisco, CA 94111 Having trouble viewing this email? [View it online.]( If you got this from a friend, [join us here](. Thanks to our sponsors for making newsletters possible. If you'd like to advertise, [learn more here](. This email was sent to: {EMAIL}. [Update Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](