Roboexotica photos
Fun photos from Scott Beale / Laughing Squid of Roboexotica USA, the perfect blend of robots and cocktails!
Month: May 2008
A VAX in your Linux box
Like many, my first introduction to the Internet came by way of a VAX/VMS server operated by the local University where I lived. A friend of a friend scenario landed me an account on the system, and after about a week I was hooked. It wasn’t long before I signed up for a night class […]
Chickensaurus skeleton
Kevin made an awesome chicken skeleton with his son, he writes – As a lesson in anatomy, my son and I reassembled a chicken skeleton from the bones remaining after a chicken dinner. We cleaned and dried the bones, then hot-glued them together. It came out pretty cool. A chicken is a lot bigger than […]
Maker kits – Building a kit business, open source hardware and more..
@ Maker Faire MAKE’s Phil Torrone and Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries talked about emerging opportunities for makers to create and sell their work – here are our slides and notes – ZIP (27mb). EDN also has a write up. Each year we’ve seen more and more makers do what they love (making) as a […]
Lug nut pill case for gearheads
Sean writes in with a lug nut pill case for gearheads! This is a pill case made from a lug nut, a matching threaded bolt, and an o-ring. In the prototype shown, the lug nut is chromed and the bolt is stainless steel. Stainless steel lug nuts are available, however, and those that I manufacture […]
Welding – A Primer @ MAKE
Welding by Mr. Jalopy. If you need metal stuck together, there is no quicker path than buying a portable 110-volt wire-feed welder. Mr. Jalopy’s introduction to welding will help you understand the process and show how you can be a welder by the end of the weekend–and end up with a couple of jigs for […]
Build a NES emulator from an old 486
This emulator system project turns an old 486 PC into a Nintendo emulator system running NESticle. The mod even includes connectors for the original NES controllers which makes it more authentic than ever. Emulator System
