Hope to see a lot of Makers on June 16-18, 2006 in San Fran! Walking androids, soccer robots, art bots, and the best flame-throwing, high-energy, steel-crunching robots in the world come to SF for the annual robot olympics! This year robots from 20 countries return to show off the worlds’ best technology and innovation. Combat […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Ehgradman is making velocity aware LED “Poi” – Poi comes from New Zealand’s Maori people, weighted balls are spun around, usually with ribbons on the end, adding super bright LEDs that change color / brightness based on speed sounds awesome, this looks like a great project! Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Pekar isn’t going to let some tall bike pedal away with the glory, oh no, here’s an old school chopper bike – “My chopper bike. Forks are extended the low tech way, by hammering them on over the existing fork, with some epoxy thrown in for good measure. Another view […]
(Your name here) writes – “This is something that they don’t show you how to do when you buy the sets. Using less than 15 pieces (and a rubber band), this can shoot its ammo a good 4 feet, depending on how strong the rubber band is. It can also be modified to shoot farhter, […]
Here’s how to make a spider-like robot / ornament. It uses a pager motor to vibrate spider across table – Link.
Datarush writes – ” Although being completely satisfied with my Apple Mighty Mouse I bought on ebay a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t refrain myself from ‘moding’ it. In my endless quest of personality enhancement for mice I bought an authentic and vintage Apple ADB mouse (on ebay). The ground idea is quite similar […]
Here’s another caller ID on scrolling LED screen project, this one on an old Beta-Brite LED screen – Thanks Douglas! Link. Previous: Squeezebox caller ID – Link.
