ThinkGeek is now selling “Wire Glue,” a conductive adhesive made with micro-carbons. They’re selling a .3 oz bottle for $4. I like what BotJunkie said about it: It looks like a neat product, and I’m sure it works well, but if you’re thinking of getting this rather than learning how to solder… You should just […]
This was posted to the MAKE Forums and I thought I’d repost it here: We need to create a revamped “Cooper Rand” which is a speech device for those who have had throat cancer or other larynx related illness. This device needs to be wireless. Is anyone interested in sharing wireless technology ideas? See it […]
Joseph Herscher from New Zealand made this super-impressive Rube Goldberg machine about Cadbury creme eggs. I’m not going to say any more about it, just watch; such fun! Via Core77.
Limor and Phil are up to plenty of good over at Adafruit Industries, where they’re working on controlling a hotplate for soldering circuit boards. Check out the video of Limor demonstrating how the laser-cut wheel and servo controls the temperature knob for the hotplate.
On this week’s Make: Talk, we’ll be chatting with John Edgar Park, host of the Makers Workshop segment of Make: television. John will be talking to us about the show and about his articles in MAKE, especially the Florence Siphon Coffee Brewer from Volume 17. John is also a “character mechanic” for Disney and was […]
Jay from thecapacity created this airsoft robot that you can control with a Wiimote. He’s using Construx for the mounting hardware, a webcam for remote sighting, and an IOBridge to control the servos. I’m pretty sure I’d never want this thing in my office, but something similar with a motor operated squirt gun might be […]
Take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it’s capacity and speed.
