This video shows swarm bots attacking pulling a child across the floor. The look on the kids face at 2:37 is classic. All joking aside, this is an amazing demonstration of the advantages of many small robots working together to accomplish a task. The goal of this project is the study of a novel design […]
Big holiday sale on the open source hardware product – Bug Labs: BUGbase units. Here’s a note I received from their team today… BUG orders are now shipping within 48 hours of purchase. BUGbase holiday discounts – for a limited time, BUGbase price reduced nearly 30% off MSRP from $349 to $249 2008 was a […]
We wrote about Fritzing before, but they have a new Alpha version available that is worth checking out. I really like this program and can’t wait to see the future enhancements. Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product. We are creating this […]
The online premiere of Make: television is January 3rd, visit makezine.tv to see the entire first episode! The broadcast premiere will follow shortly after depending on when your local Public Television station decides to air it. One of our Maker Channel submissions comes from Stephen Hobley, who made an amazing musical instrument that produces different […]
Jodie from Ric-Rac shares a fun idea crafters could use to brighten up their workpaces: garlands made from colorful measuring tapes. I’m very tempted to try this…
This project attempts to physically represent the amount of “rock” at a concert. It uses an Arduino and pressure sensors on the floor to measure the movement of the audience. It takes that data and creates a visual representation of the “rock” factor. An idea popped out of Radio 1 Interactive a while ago. This […]
My PC mod pic of the day was built by a young German modder named “Froop”. It’s an awesome Chernobyl-based PC case he calls “Unit 4”. It also has some themes from the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. For a closer look at all of the painstaking detail he put into this, see the rest of the story! […]
