Month: March 2008

Xeni joins the cupcake 1%-ers

There’s something divinely surreal about giant cupcakes tooling around with human heads poking out of their centers. We had the cupcake cars at last year’s Bay Area Maker Faire and I had a laugh every time they trundled by the MAKE booth. In this BBtv video, Xeni rides with the Cupcake Cutthroats (shiver me sprinkles!) […]

Arduino particle system

Seb Lee-Delisle made this cool particle system using an Arduino board and an 8×8 LED array. He writes: The only real trick here is that I’m working internally with a much higher resolution that the actual 8×8 grid, and then rounding to the nearest pixel when displaying each particle. This gives a really smooth movement. […]

Excersize and make mixed drinks

We don’t condone drinking and driving here at MAKE, but we do like projects that combine domestic kitchen appliances with transportation devices like this “Bicycle Mixer” project from Berlin. Watch and learn how mixing drinks can actually get you into shape. Unbelievable Bicycle Mixer