Here’s a DIY soalr tracker, turned people’s choice for Australia’s “New Inventors” show – It is a new type of ‘passive’ solar tracker that uses a combination of direct sunlight (radiant heat) and shade (ambient air temp) to affect the thermal expansion and contraction of a liquid to make the solar panel rotate. The expansion […]
blueroomelectronics has some interesting kits for robotics, perhaps more interesting are the illustrations made in sketchup of the electronics! Link. Related: Robotics @ MAKE – Link. Kits @ MAKE – Link.
Raelx writes – If you have ever been in a Volkswagen New Beetle you might have noticed that the dash is deep enough to take a nap on. This makes the suction cup mount provided with the Nuvi pretty much useless. You would have to press your chest to the steering wheel to touch the […]
Justin McHenry @ Citizen Scientist reviewed The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin And the Pursuit of Genius – looks like a great book to check out, he writes – I’ve always been a Benjamin Franklin fan, but I guess I’ve always admired the caricature of Franklin: from the rags-to-riches Poor Richard writing witty sayings in […]
Many of the microcontroller projects here on MAKE control small things like LEDs, but what about large motors? Roger writes – This tutorial offers suggestions about controlling large loads with a microprocessor. This is often an issue with those building robots who need to control devices such as lights, motors, vacuums, and other accessories found […]
MAKE & CRAFT were named Webby honorees – congrats to the team here @ CRAFT and the team on MAKE! As a result of the superior quantity and quality of sites entered, the 11th Annual Webby Awards recognized sites and teams that demonstrated a standard of excellence. Of the more than 8,000 entries submitted to […]
Jonah writes – Here’s a pic of the “MIDI Fan instrument” someone made in our workshop on Saturday at the Viral:Culture event at Columbia College in Chicago. Overall we had a really nice group of workshoppers and some pretty cool projects came out of it… scrapyardchallenge.com – [via] Link. Related: MIDI Scrapyard Challenge video – […]
