If you’re in San Diego and want to see a giant example of extreme engineering (steam powered too) – check out the Midway museum, it’s an aircraft carrier circa WWII that served all the way up to the Kuwait war (1992) – it was he longest serving aircraft carrier in the history of the U.S. […]
MAKE contributor Douglas Repetto writes: ArtBots is pleased to announce that the fifth international ArtBots exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots will take place at the Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland on September 19-21, 2008. Creators of talented robots are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the show. We […]
Crabfu has made another amazing steam powered vehicle. From the video, it looks like they are still in the development phase, but it works really well. I am sure the final boat will be just as amazing as the other steam-powered vehicles. – Link Related: RC controlled steam beetle – Link Maker Faire: Steam turbine […]
Last New Years Eve, I had the pleasure of attending the annual steam-whistle-blow at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. The experience was loud, cold, soggy, and quite simply awesome. Steam pipes stretched across the campus lawn to power a large strip of whistles, in a variety of sizes. If you moved in close enough […]
“Gimme Sugar” is a gesture-based controller for a sugar dispenser built with a MX2125 Dual-axis Accelerometer. Pretty cool except that it might be a self-perpetuating sugar rush as you typically begin to gesture more, the more you consume sugar. Details on the project at the link below. Gimme Sugar – Link
Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: What can you do with a busted (or merely obsolete) chip? Well, you can always make a trivet or even chip bugs. But here’s a new one: Alejandro Gonzalez found that you could make a BristleBot by bending the pins of the chip. Clever! Chip bristlebot – [via] […]
Unlike USB2, the Firewire spec allows devices to have full DMA access. By impersonating the appropriate device, a PC can essentially obtain full read/write access to another machine’s RAM, just by connecting the two machines with a Firewire cable. Adding to the recent discussion about the insecurities of physical access and Princeton’s cold-boot RAM dump […]
