Year: 2009

Intern’s Corner: My R/C hovercraft

Intern’s Corner: My R/C hovercraft

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Steven Lemos, engineering intern For a school project in my AutoCAD class, my group and I decided to design and build a hovercraft. At first we were planning […]

Arduino learns to speak!

Peter points out the release of the Cantarino speech synthesis library for Arduino – demoed above in an endearing rendition of “Daisy”. An interrupt on the PWM output timer calls a sample generator. This uses a synthesis similar to FOF or granule synthesis – using two sines and a square wave of adjustable pitch and […]