Woah . . . a tank cake. Heavy duty military vehicles don’t exactly seem appetizing but that’s some smooth movement for a dessert (and most of what you see is actually edible). Dibs on the motor piece! Roll over to Instructables for deets on building – Moving Tank birthday cake
The Top 5 finalists in each category are now up for voting in the Softies Awards on Softies Central. Voting is open now through Tuesday, May 6th at 8pm PST. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 7th. Now go vote! Pictured above is one of the Top 5 contenders in the Picnic Food category […]
Jose sent us this sweet LED message scroller he made using an ATTiny2313. He’s even got a visual editor to generate code for the sub-palm-sized device. Nice job – even nicer if he posts the code & schematic ;) – 7×5 LED message scroller (Google translation here) In the Maker store: LED Micro-Readerboard Kit
The schedule of events for Bay Area Maker Faire ’08 has been posted. Head over and start writing up you’re game-plan for the big event – warning: this may be a bit of a challenge considering the GINORMOUS amount of good stuff happenning! Seriously, this thing may be getting out of hand – Maker Faire […]
mp_industries berlin has felt weapons I’d actually like to be hit with – via NOTCOT.
Kalanda sent in this 7×5 dot matrix LED scroller based on the Attiny2313 AVR microcontroller. It looks like a fun little project, but the part I really dug was the way the animation is programmed. The author created a simple LED Composer HTML/Javascript page that lets you visually construct the layout of the animation, its […]
Randy sent in his latest laser creation. We have seen these before, but most of them don’t utilize a custom PWM for motor control. There aren’t any specific step-by-step instructions, but most of you could figure out how to make it anyway. The final effect is really nice, but I think it needs more lasers. […]
