Windell Oskay of EMSL found this 12-inch seven segment display on his trip to electronics megacity of Shenzhen, China, and he started hacking a controller for it right there in the hotel room: As part of the China trip last week, we had a little scavenger hunt, where the challenge was to build something with […]
I’m a big fan of the shirt dress, and seeing Antionette’s (Clever Girl) refashion of a men’s shirt into a cute shirt dress has me giddy. Thanks, Sarah!
Mike posted this hypnotic video of a 5-axis industrial CNC machine carving a prototype car form and applying/smoothing the epoxy shell. Even after understanding how it works, it’s still quite a fascinating process to take in. [via Hacked Gadgets]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member Model Army did some testing with a stereolithography machine and posted the elegant results. For those unfamiliar with the process – stereolithography uses UV lasers to solidify a photosensitive resin, printing objects one layer at a time from a vat of the liquid – Learn more about the […]
Mekonik used an Arduino board, solenoid coil, hall effect sensor, and some clever coding to hold a permanent magnet in mid-air – The device uses a small Hall effect sensor (SS19 from Honeywell, available for $0.50 from AllElectronics) to sense the field of the permanent magnet and uses that information to modulate the magnetic field […]
Jake von Slatt sent us a link to this nifty “legendary” automotive tip for removing old bearing races from an aluminum axle hub. There’s no way of knocking or prying them out. But if you weld a bead around the inside of the race, when the weld cools, it’ll shrink enough that it’ll come away […]
Yet another vibrobot design, this one made out of a metal jar lid, motor, switch, and battery. Killer Jar Lid Robot is Coming For You!
