This instructable will show you how to make a long lasting ‘AA’ battery backpack for your Arduino. Why not use a 9V or lithium battery? Well, here’s why this maker chose to use AA’s instead: I recently bought an Arduino Diecimila board. It’s awesome and the applications, you can use it for or with is […]
Claudine Hellmuth shows how to create a holiday paper village for your mantle. It could also be a fun project to work for any time of year, and I love her mix of papers, color and sketches to add details to the village.
We’ve previously covered the student projects that come out of Cornell’s microcontroller design courses, and I’m always excited to see what’s released each semester. Bruce Land wrote in today with an update on the Fall 2008 FPGA projects: During the last 5 weeks of the fall semester in ECE576, Advanced Microcontroller Design, students at Cornell […]
Ryan is just a college student with his own robot hand and Millenium Falcon, right? Well, Ryan just happened to make his own with the help of a laser cutter and some Python scripting that he cooked up to make his Solidworks and Blender design real. As part of the amazing class: How to Make […]
Amon found the usual post party debris the one morning/afternoon and decided to Hook Up some of the stuff to his computer and make something useful. With some pizza boxes, cups, a computer and Scratch, he made a Skeeball type game. Just like the one at the arcade at the mall, but less hungry for […]
Two things I love (snowmen and dioramas) plus one thing I’m iffy on (eggs) still equals a super awesome holiday decoration. This one’s from Niki Makes, via The Crafty Crow.
I got my brand spanking new Chronulator 2 kit in the mail! I had big plans for opening it all up and taking photos of the parts. I figured I go out and find an amazing case to build it into. I have a two-year-old with a cold. I figured wrong. I got as far […]
