This is interesting, an interactive pole dance experiment that uses strain gauges to change the lighting and colors by Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi. The best part about this video is you get to see a couple Japanese hacker/maker/engineers test it out. Well, at least that was my favorite part. Somewhat related, here’s a nice […]
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! You know you’ve got a geektastic event when even the fashion accessories start sporting LEDs. From Jared’s project page at Inventgeek: With the maker faire this […]
Erik writes- BALLS 17, the premiere experimental rocketry launch contest, was held Sept 26, 27, 28 in Black Rock, Nevada. The event website has details on BALLS 17 and the competition rules. This is the extreme rocketry event where experimental rocketeers push the envelope of size, staging/clustering, altitude, home-made components and motors, and cutting-edge rocket […]
Matt hacked around with the Esquire cover e-ink screen (see our past posts) and did a cool Knight Rider type pulse… Source included. He writes- Last month, Esquire magazine published a cover that contained an E-ink screen. I was really looking forward to it, actually… so much so that I marked it in my calendar […]
This ZigBee radio module has a 32-Bit ARM Processor and its architecture reduces component amounts on the PCB which ultimately reduces power consumption and the overall cost of these efficient modules. This package needs an external crystal and there’s room for an optional 50 Ohm antenna as well. The two onboard ADCs and 8 general […]
I love this step-by-step tutorial by Polliwog’s Cakewalk on how to cut a bell pepper so that no seeds are on the pepper or the cutting board!
We’ve written about Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter robots before here on Make, but here are a couple new ones he has built that make interesting use of the keys as teeth and the innards as legs on this spider-like bot. He’s also bent the body to add more expressive features to the “face” of this bot. […]
