Photo from Third World Tech Third World Tech is a neat site with loads of technologies that are used and created in the developing world. One feature on their site is this great idea of making bamboo bikes. The bicycle is such an incredibly important tool for people living on very little in low tech […]
Zebranalogic’s Circular Oscillator design reaches new heights of cylindrical synthesis – and wow, it sounds kind of angry about it :( I suppose that’s just the squarewaves talkin’ … and growling. Either way, it’s quite a jump from the Circular Oscillator VII and I’m guessing assembly must be a bit tricky for the PCB/knobs at […]
Manhattan area makers, get your reassembly on – Make:NYC Meeting 12 – Wednesday April 8th, 6:30PM Is it just me or is it getting warm outside? Celebrate spring with us at the next Make:NYC meeting! Challenge: Reconstruct the beast! Teams will get a box full of parts from a disassembled item. Item must be reconstructed […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Carl gives an old-fashioned marble a shot of electric oomph with this upgrade – Arduino with motor shield controlling a continuous rotation servo. The wheel turns when marbles are detected by the infrared phototransistor and LED pair next to the wheel. Full set here, includes Arduino source and demo video. […]
When Chad was a freshman in my high school program, he was talking about wanting to do a car project. The teenage car project is a time tested pursuit, an opportunity to learn many of life’s lessons, learn tools, techniques, create a useful product. Chad is currently a freshman at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where […]
I love that this guy’s project blog is called Scoop My Cat Box, and the subtitle is: “One man’s quest to offload his responsibilities onto the internet.” So far, he’s working on two projects, the titular robo cat box, and an Arduino and ultrasonic range-finder-based water dish that lets you know, over the innerwebs, how […]
Did you know that you can get Make: Online delivered to your inbox each day? Feedblitz, the service that we use, does a really nice job of formatting the content. You get the entire day’s worth of web content in a single digest email. Make: Daily Mail gives you an internally-linked “What’s In This Issue” […]
