@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – A returning favorite, OWI robotics – this year they introduced a slew of “green” robot kits as well as a USB controlled robot arm. In 1980, OWI Incorporated, was looking for a way to expand its consumer product lines and bring its extensive technology background to the educational community. RobotiKitsâ„¢ […]
EMS Labs decided to give Jay Clegg’s excellent Peggy video hack a go and documented the results. The updated version of the project requires a Peggy 2 board (with all 625 LEDs installed), an Arduino (for Serial to I2C data conversion), and a computer running Processing with a video source. I’m thinking this is probably […]
Jörg shares another unusual approach to sound circuits with this mini optical organ, inspired by the legendary Optigan keyboard instrument – my instrument generates the tone with a light depended resistor which kann be controlled by an LED. the speed and patterns on the disc determine the frequency and shape of the resulting wave form. […]
Chances are, you’ve played a Flash game or two that makes use of a 2D Newtonian physics engine. If you’re a Javascript coder, though, there’s no reason why you should feel left out of the fun. Box2D JS is a Javascript port of the popular Box2DFlashAS3 library. This is cool for a couple of reasons. […]
Posting in the Make: forums, schoschie asks: I’ve had an idea a while ago of making a light-object that will contain a matrix of 10 x 8 RGB “cells”. I was thinking of using a red, green, blue LED for each cell because that’s how I’ve seen it being done in a PAR light that […]
Tinker.it has the scoop on a free competition for hackers and makers, with the chance to win one of 4 prizes of £50: Makers & Hackers is a making competition where teams of crafters and hackers are invited to come together either in London or Sheffield on February 28th to make a project around the […]
Learn how to recycle brown paper bags into recipe cards in this tutorial by Jackie on Crafting a Green World. She also includes a PDF of her recipe card design for you to easily print with.
