Lars writes – his article is about the robot: SickSack that Aske Olsson and I created for DTU RoboCup 2007, which is an annual competition for autonomous mobile robots held by Automation at the Technical University of Denmark. SickSack snake robot The robot consists of nine cars connected with eight Futaba servos controlled by a […]
CRAFT & MAKE Publisher Dale Dougherty writes: In the Sunday New York Times, I read the article titled “Where the Crafts Babes and D.I.Y. Dudes Are.” This Sunday Styles article, was about the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn but the author sadly made a choice to let her snide opinions get in the way of […]
jasonharper writes – This hack will allow user-written software to be run on a JuiceBox media player toy. It works by tricking the built-in picture viewer application to run code contained in a .JBP picture file that starts with a specific 8-byte sequence. Normal operation of the JuiceBox is not affected, other than the 1-out-of-18-quintillion […]
Azog writes – We probably saved about $50, but spent about four hours. I don’t know if you can measure it this way, but it’s a helluva lot more satisfying to hack up your own case. Off-the-shelf case modding has become so mainstream, people don’t even need to pick up a real tool, so there’s […]
Here’s a wonderful junkyard organ from Popular Science 1939 – Discarded bottles, an old vacuum-cleaner motor, sections of inner tubing, and other objects salvaged from the scrap heap comprise the parts of a unique junk-yard organ recently exhibited at Atlantic City, N.J. Individual notes are sounded by air from the cleaner motor blowing across small […]
Here’s a homemade Terminator sculpture made from a lot of junk… – [via] Link.
This is pretty neat, a video of a magician that incorporates a high powered green laser in to his act… – [via] Link.
