Emilio developed a useful looking add-on for Eclipse, he writes – The PicCBuilder is an Eclipse plugin for allowing the use of Eclipse CDT as the editor and builder of projects for Microchip PIC microcontrollers. It creates makefiles that involke the C30 toolchain to generate the binary files. PIC C Builder for Eclipse – Link. […]
Rob writes in – Solar Robot lessons in NYC! My name is Rob Lockhart, I’m a citizen of Robot Village and I’m going to be teaching some classes on building Solar Robots. The whole class takes about an 1.5-2 hours and costs $54. There are 4 classes to choose from! The days and times are: […]
Check out the great moon photos from MAKE Flickr photo pool member monopole2006 shot with a 127mm 1000mm FL Maksutov (Orion Starmax 127) w/ a 26 mm eyepiece Afocal imaging w/ a Nikon Coolpix 990 – Link.
I really like these cardboard box lamps, you could make your own versions with an exacto knife or get real fancy and stamp/laser cut out the shapes… – [via] Link & more.
This hexapod robot by animatronic artist Matt Denton is sure to freak your freak. Truly impressive. Micromagic Systems (Denton’s animatronics site) – [via] Link
Our buds at uC Hobby have another “winner” in their “Hobby Parts for Articles” program: Oscar Gonzalez gives us a simple tutorial for speed controlling a PC FAN and reading a LM35 temperature sensor with an Arduino microcontroller. He covers the use of an optocoupler, PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) and reading analog voltages with the […]
Daniel M. German found a way to automate perspective correction and projection adjustments for his wide angle photography. He does this by using a Wiimote to record the pitch and roll of the camera at the time a photo is taken. This information can then be fed directly into panotools, instead of manually entering control […]
