Here’s a fascinating project over at SparkFun where they took one of the Munny “DIY” vinyl toys and embedded a Logomatic datalogger (with its LPC2138 MCU), a Nokia screen clone, and an accelerometer inside. The idea is to use the device as a sort of 21st century Magic 8-Ball, dubbed the Sinister 7. Pete, the […]
If you go into the Record activity on the XO laptop, you’ll find that you can only record a maximum of 45 seconds of video and audio. But since almost everything in this little green wonder is written in Python, it’s very easy to fix this. Open up the Terminal activity, cd to /usr/share/activities/Record.activity, and […]
Gregory at Apartment Therapy LA recently posted about some cute and eco-friendly gift tags his girlfriend made from old grocery bags. See the step-by-step slideshow here. Link.
Kerim Seiler’s “MgBeth” a giant inflatable sculpture – [via] Link.
Kan Yang Li (aka Kyle) made this papercraft Arduino robot that responds to a truck-shaped remote control. It’s called Dragonaut, and after you use a key to start him up, his arms raise and lower to proclaim “awesome!” “Dragonaut is a cheerful robot who shows up when the earth is in danger, when our hearts […]
If you’re looking for a perfect last-minute gift for a DIYer on your “nice” list, Best of MAKE is just the ticket, especially if s/he is not already a subscriber to the magazine. For the book, we chose 75 of our favorite projects and a few tutorials from the first ten volumes and packed them […]
Dan writes – An endoscope is a thin viewing device, suitable for being poked into places where the human eye cannot, and possibly should not, otherwise see. Since it’s likely to be dark… in there, endoscopes usually have some sort of illumination device built in. The more sophisticated kinds of endoscope shoot light out of […]
