John Baichtal

DIY TV & Media Center

01/07/2014

Make a DIY television with the ability to display broadcast TV programs. It will also play movies with the help...

01/06/2014

If you were dying to learn about Arduinos last September, the place to be would have been Maker Faire, at...

01/02/2014

This Lego Mindstorms robot automatically switches a quadrotor's battery pack, extending its flying time without the operator having to intervene.

01/02/2014

Two projects featured at Maker Faire caught my eye because, well, I'm obsessed with LED displays right now. It turns...

01/01/2014

Miguel Valenzuela created a series of computer controlled beats by placing a stepper motor on a guitar's pickup.

12/31/2013

Don Coleman demonstrates using both Adafruit's and Seeed Studio's NFC shields to read Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags.

12/30/2013

uFactory's uArm is equipped with a vacuum pump and solenoid valve, allowing it to lift even heavy things like a...

12/27/2013

David Gilday's MindCub3r robot is made from a single Lego Mindstorms EV3 set and solves mixed-up Rubik's Cubes.

12/22/2013

Jason Kridner, a software architecture manager at TI and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, shows how to program a BeagleBone to run...

12/20/2013

littleBits' Synth Kit it's a series of open-source synthesizer modules, co-designed with synth legends Korg. In short, it lets kids...