Seen @ DEFON – a 44 IR LED array TV-B-Gone, I’m not sure of the power source but it looks like it might beat the previous built it yourself version that has 20 IR LEDs with a 90ft range – Link. Related: Photos from DEFCON – Link. Make your own Ultra TV-B-Gone – 20 IR […]
Mr_tentacle writes – “Muhe’e (Hawai’ian for Squid) is a J-Class Robo-one humanoid, which began life as a Kondo KHR-1 kit. I added 4 gyros for stability and a Zigbee wireless interface for sending the robot commands.” – Link. Videos: Muhe’e Dances! – Link. Muhe’e Practices his Yoga – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Riccardomuccio posted up another great Kirlian photo, this one is a coin – “Corona around a coin exposed to high voltage. The line below is the wire connecting it to ground. This is known as a Kirlian photo. More like this in my Plasma Set“ – Link. Previous: Leaf corona […]
Check out these kids having a ball, er geometric sphere, from our Weekend Project – Picnic Geometry – Thanks Typewriter! Link. Be sure to post your geometric creations in the MAKE Flickr photo pool!
Here are a few dandies – what’s new, from the old – over at Modern Mechanix… Sea sickness the “real terror of the sea” may have been solved in 1933 with this auto-leveling bed. Stylish homemade radiation suit for bicycling.
OK, Makers if you haven’t already check out this week’s video edition of Weekend Projects, learn to make geometric spheres from all sorts of things you might find at a picnic. Watch the video to see how to build an icosohedron out of paper plates, cups, and plastic sheeting. This is a great project to […]
Here are some Popular Electronics covers and cover complete stories/article from 1955 to 1975 – “Popular Electronics was started by Ziff-Davis in October 1954 as a magazine for students and experimenters. It became the “World’s Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine” and proudly listed the circulation figure on the Contents page, (240,151 in April 1957 .) In later […]
