Jay sent in this amazing Wiimote controlled coil gun. This is certainly an effective way to protect your cubical from unwanted intruders. Just keep in mind, this is a lot more effective dangerous than the Nerf versions. I’ve seen some of ioBridge projects recently, and in inspired by “ServoBeer” I thought I’d try my hand […]
Let it begin! My wife picked up the RCA Victor 21″ television last night from our friend. I unloaded it and set it in the hallway; it’s a little bit bigger than I envisioned, and even cooler than I’d hoped. The giant channel knob on the side turns the channel indicator display inside a little […]
Next Meeting: 27 January 2009 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Schedule for the meeting: James Mallos : BEAMbots and Wrapping Paper Sculptor James Mallos will talk about two interactive sculptures exhibited at the FLIK Film […]
Cheap Vegetable Gardener is having seed starting success with a grow box that uses cheap LED Christmas lights. It looks like a nice portable system, and they reported that the seedlings seem to be getting enough light so far.
… well it certainly looks capable of inducing ‘force choke’ at the very least. Either way – Thomas built this masterful ring of sequential synthesizer control around the 16-step sequencer project from MFOS. The prominent layout was created using Front Panel Express and design files are available on his site. But as with most complex […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Phozon posts pics of the “Lunchtime LASER project”, a follow-up to one of his previous works. The pocket-sized light show is put in motion by what appears to be two CPU fans and power comes courtesy of a spare USB port. Lunchtime LASER = awesome.
(link to video) Make: television producer and author Bill Gurstelle talks about Make: and goes over a few projects from the upcoming season. Bill appeared on Almanac, the Twin Cities Public Television weekly public affairs show. New episodes of Make: television appear each week on makezine.tv or on Public Television. Check out our broadcast listings […]
