Behold! MAKE subscriber Mike Cook brings us the Arduinocaster – Arduinocaster is a an Arduino based MIDI instrument modelled on a guitar sometimes called a keytar. It uses switches and LEDs to control six “strings” which are held down in guitar like chords. Triggering the strings is through an opto reflective switch for a continuous […]
Matth3w’s Swiss AVR Knife conveniently packs several microcontroller projects into a single ATtiny84 chip – Because of the flexibility afforded by microcontroller programming, it also provides a starting point for any number of projects based on LEDs and sound output. The SAK can contain as many programs as the 8K of memory permits and maintains […]
MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink has a new toy, the MicRo CNC robot kit, from Lumenlab: The micRo is a 3-axis CNC robot being offered by Lumenlab, the same folks who made DIY video projection accessible to the world. Grayson Sigler, the Brainchild behind Lumenlab (brainchild is also his handle on the inter-tubes) describes micRo as […]
We look at some of the airships of the past, a few in the skies today, and some fantasies for the near future.
There’s only a few days left to enter Inhabitat’s Spring Greening contest. Deadline is midnight, March 27th. Repair and reuse have been hot topics as of late, with everyone from technology renaissance man Saul Griffith to Worldchanging editor Alex Steffen advocating a shift towards repairable, long-lasting heirloom products. We’ve been covering reclaimed design for quite […]
There’s only a few days left to submit projects to Inhabitat’s Spring Greening contest. Deadline is midnight March 27th. Repair and reuse have been hot topics as of late, with everyone from technology renaissance man Saul Griffith to Worldchanging editor Alex Steffen advocating a shift towards repairable, long-lasting heirloom products. We’ve been covering reclaimed design […]
[pic of David Brooks’ photometer kit] In following up on his discussion, on the last episode on Make: Talk, of building Sun Photometers and measuring total column water vapor, Forrest Mims sent me the following info: The instrument that measures total column water vapor is a sun photometer with LEDs that detect at 940 nm […]
