HEXBUG Micro robots
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – Not too much new stuff from HEXBUG this year – the only new product I saw was the “Inchworm” – which reminds me of the Gakken metal kit (also called Inchworm) we have at MAKE.
Month: February 2009
OWI Robotics
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – A returning favorite, OWI robotics – this year they introduced a slew of “green” robot kits as well as a USB controlled robot arm. In 1980, OWI Incorporated, was looking for a way to expand its consumer product lines and bring its extensive technology background to the educational community. RobotiKitsâ„¢ […]
Displaying video on Peggy 2
EMS Labs decided to give Jay Clegg’s excellent Peggy video hack a go and documented the results. The updated version of the project requires a Peggy 2 board (with all 625 LEDs installed), an Arduino (for Serial to I2C data conversion), and a computer running Processing with a video source. I’m thinking this is probably […]
Homegrown opto-organ
Jörg shares another unusual approach to sound circuits with this mini optical organ, inspired by the legendary Optigan keyboard instrument – my instrument generates the tone with a light depended resistor which kann be controlled by an LED. the speed and patterns on the disc determine the frequency and shape of the resulting wave form. […]
Box2D JS – Javascript 2D physics library
Chances are, you’ve played a Flash game or two that makes use of a 2D Newtonian physics engine. If you’re a Javascript coder, though, there’s no reason why you should feel left out of the fun. Box2D JS is a Javascript port of the popular Box2DFlashAS3 library. This is cool for a couple of reasons. […]
From the forums: controlling a bunch of LEDs?
Posting in the Make: forums, schoschie asks: I’ve had an idea a while ago of making a light-object that will contain a matrix of 10 x 8 RGB “cells”. I was thinking of using a red, green, blue LED for each cell because that’s how I’ve seen it being done in a PAR light that […]
Makers & Hackers, London and Sheffield on February 28, 2009
Tinker.it has the scoop on a free competition for hackers and makers, with the chance to win one of 4 prizes of £50: Makers & Hackers is a making competition where teams of crafters and hackers are invited to come together either in London or Sheffield on February 28th to make a project around the […]