Super Cameraman writes – “Ever wanted to make a movie where you wanted somebody to fall down a flight of stairs, or off a building, but didn’t feel like using a real person? Well here’s a tutorial on how to make a decent looking stunt dummy out of free materials.” – Link. Related: Street installations […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Simple Simon writes – “Mid level digital cameras usually don’t allow for remote shutter control. This Frankenstein addition will trigger the shutter on any camera. It was built with time-lapse movies in mind.” – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Kite Aerial Photography. To take pictures from a kite, you […]
Terrie writes – “The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is having a Citizen Science Toolkit Conference in June 2007. They’re bringing people from different citizen science projects together to develop a framework for developing, implementing, and evaluating citizen science programs. Citizen scientists augment the work of credentialed scientists by gathering data and contributing to research efforts. […]
Shelly Farnham at Ignite; Photo by PD Gibson It is time for you to submit your Ask Later proposal to the next Ignite! What do you want to tell Seattle in 5 minutes? You get 20 slides for 15 seconds a slide and you can’t control it. If you’re unsure of how it works watch […]
Here’s a round up of computer controlled Etch-a-sketches. A MAKE reader wrote in asking if there was a collection, so now there is – ETCH CNC -[via] – Link. Electr-O-Sketch – Link. Computerized Etch A Sketch – Link. MAKE VIDEO PODCAST: Computer Controlled CNC Etchasketch – Link.
A follow up from our how-to use a multimeter video… Here’s a resister calc dashboard widget for Mac OS X – “Resistulator – A resistor calculator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is […]
Mike writes – “MiniMechadon was designed/constructed from Nov ’02 to Dec ’03. Currently, the mechanics and electrical hardware are complete. I have written some test code to exercise the servos and demonstrate the flexibility of the robot and for basic walking. The main goal of the project is to experiment with learning algorithms that will […]
