From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Like some sort of cyborg fruit-turned-electronic hedgehog – Flickr member s8’s 2-week old lemon-powered joule thief is showing its age. Hmm. I wonder if it smells as good as it looks. – middle-aged lemon Related: HOW TO – Tiny AVR Microcontroller powered by fruit Make a Joule Thief – […]
This week: MIDIfied finger piano hack, Interaction 2008, an impalement simulation belt, a safety-first robot paper shredder, the Sociable Trash Box, a long-distance drinking device, the Limonect ambient footstep network, Kazuya Kanemaru, a rotary remote control, a robot controlled by a TV remote, a young girl rocking out to Max/MSP/Jitter, edible rice tableware, and a […]
When a drive is mounted in Windows, it’s normally assigned the next available drive letter, and using the disk management tool, you can force a disk to use a specific drive letter. It turns out you can even take this one step further and map a drive to a directory/folder path on another disk. With […]
This is a pretty cool Arduino to WiiMote NunChuck hack from Jeremy Keith to control 3D visuals in Processing on an iMac. Simple but effective. Arduino WiiMote Hack
The Garbage Reader 1.0 (aka G.R 1.0 or Grone), is the first of a series of robots by Ireland-based, French artist Ben Gaulon that analyzes the contents of garbage bins. The bot senses its immediate environment for toxicity, temperature, and humidity levels and remotely reports the data over a network while it’s head-mounted camera streams […]
This hack shows how to modify an old CB radio to broadcast on the channels that fast food restaurants usually reserve for their drive-thru windows. Although we here at MAKE don’t condone this particular use, it’s still a valid way of modifying existing systems to create new opportunities for interaction on open frequencies. Phone Losers […]
Dugg writes in – One reader of The Automata / Automaton Blog wrote to me with an interesting question. “I’m looking for a simple mechanism to convert rotational motion to reciprocal motion along the SAME axis as the rotation, not perpendicular.” I decided to investigate potential solutions in one of my favorite books on mechanisms, […]
