(Cupcake CNC image from MakerBot Industries) Bruce Wattendorf is organizing a weekend of RepRap and MakerBot hacking at AS220 Labs, 115 Empire Street, Providence RI on June 12, 13, and 14: The team will be building a MakerBot, a DIY open source 3D printer. The build will be organized as a series of sessions, so […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Eschlaep shares details on building a 2-axis joystick from scavenged VCR and computer mouse parts – Well, the other day I found another idler wheel from the same VCR, and I decided to share the construction technique so that you can make one too. It’s pretty simple and takes an […]
This is a really interesting solution to a relatively common problem of implementing a whole house intercom system. Keep in mind, many of today’s phones already have an intercom feature, but it isn’t nearly as satisfying to use as one based on an Arduino. You can really learn a lot about electronics and micro controllers […]
Here’s how Instructables user pilx made this simple floating dock with some wood carpentry and four 55 gallon plastic barrels.
I am in awe of this amazing giant button mosaic created by Jo of Button Candy and Angie of Lucky Pony. Angie and i were given the task to do WHATEVER we wanted to the front bar counter at work. Lucky us, we decided to stick down 4261 buttons (i made that number up – […]
Matt of NYCR shares his recipe for shooting a day’s worth of time-lapse images and easily stringing them together as video – So during the Thursday craft night we received a request from one of the hackerspace folks for some time lapse videos of the space over a 24 hour period. They are working on […]
Erica “ALH84001” Archer provides some insight for those new to drawing up electronics schematics – Most vintage schematics are hard to read because engineers back then customarily drew explicit connections for supply voltages all thru the schematic. But that can end up looking like a confusing maze of lines, making it hard to visualize what […]
