Seamster put his collection of scrap wood to good use in the form of the above-seen DIY pinball machine, even reusing the ball from an old computer mouse – With some parental help, this can be a kid-friendly project. Building a solid table with a functioning paddle assembly requires some basic woodworking skills, and may […]
Seems the Lizards Liquid Lounge in Chicago is the place to be this Saturday – The Midwest Experimental Electronics Showcase features a nice lineup including several sound makers we’ve mentioned here in the past – Tim Kaiser (as seen on Make: television) Talking Computron (of GetLoFi) Todd Michael Bailey (EE madman, creator of the WTPA […]
MAKE subscriber Luke BrownGold makes the bending experience a bit more accessible to the younger set – Currently I am attending Parsons school of Design. This is a prototype for a toy called the BachBot 9000. It is made children who may be too young to get into circuit bending. Made with an arduino the […]
ArduinoFun has a how-to on building this simple two-servo Arduino walker that’s a great starter robot project for kids. The body and legs were ordered from Ponoko. Shawn of ArduinoFun writes: My son is 11 and daughter is 5 and they really enjoyed doing this. I was amazed at my daughter already thinking of new […]
In this latest adafruit tutorial, Limor shows you how to create a “pager scanner” that allows you to feed incoming pager network data to a Windows computer over a serial port. It looks super easy to do and fun to see what you can still find on these data networks. Also check out her earlier […]
Did you know you can get into the Maker Faire for free if you’re willing to volunteer four hours of your time? And, it doesn’t have to be during the Faire itself. You can imagine how much work is involved in setting up and talking down an event of this size. We need folks in […]
Bruce Damer, The EvoGrid, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-04-08 from pronoiac on Vimeo. Here are a couple of talks from recent Dorkbot SF meetings. The first one is MAKE contributing author Dave Matthews, talking about “software as the new hardware.” His talk his entertaining and thought-provoking as always. The second talk is of Bruce Damer, speaking about meteors, […]
