This tutorial shows how to build a frequency generator out of parts found at your local Radioshack. Pretty simple construction and nice detail on the enclosure with a nice array of dip switches. How to make a Frequency Generator
Gene Hacker created a 3D printer out of LEGO. It’s like a lo-rez reprap that operates in polar coordinates instead of the more familiar cartesian system. This is still very alpha and his demos show some promising 3D blobs of frosting. With that in mind, however, most of the basic functionality of a rapid fabrication […]
รฏยฟยผThis cool hack shows you how to retool an old 2.5″ QVGA TFT iPod LCD screen in order to use it for another project. Lots of really good info about the pinout connectors of this screen in order to get it up and running in no time. iPod LCD Hacking, via Electronics Lab
This week: Kirigami by Kanako Yaguchi, The Web Server is Running, Controlling a Model Train with Acceleromoters, an iPod Touch and Gainer, Denkuri Master – Completed, Controlling the Gakken SX-150 with MIDI via USB, Making a Bug Trapped in Amber (Candy), High-Temp Superconductor Coaster, Rabbit-kun garbage bag + friends. Kirigami by Kanako Yaguchi Kirigami is […]
I do reports each month about how the MAKE site is doing in terms of traffic and all sorts of metrics, I don’t think I’ve ever posted any of the interesting tidbits so I’m going to start doing that… here’s one, most of you visiting the site are using Firefox (this is for the month […]
(My pedicab, pre-foam-addition.) Thanks to everybody who commented on my first post in this series: I’ve got great feedback, including a hilarious put-down from another local pedicabber (“Luke, Death Cab for Cutie called. They want a photo for the next album cover.”) And, appropriately, there’s been a call for data. So here’s what I’ve got: […]
Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter via Fabbaloo. In the final keynote of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Thursday, Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, shed some light on work around programmable matter, as he teased the audience with what Intel believes would apply as technology in the next four decades. The idea of programmable matter, […]
