MAKE contributor and robotics author Tod Kurt put up this short video and how-to on hacking tiny, cheap servo motors for continuous rotation. Anyone who’s done a lot of miniature robotics building probably knows the hardware hack to turn a regular servo motor into a continuous-rotation gearmotor, by removing the mechanical stop and the servo […]
Hope your day is filled with Easter eggs, bunnies, chicks, and lots of chocolate! Featured above is fuzzymitten on Etsy’s PDF pattern for the well-dressed bunny.
Photo from The Boston Globe A few years ago a dragon turned up down the street. Chuck Nudd had spent some winter months concocting a behemoth animatronic dragon from some cast off steel junk. It started out as a dinosaur, but morphed into a dragon as the design came out. Draco is both wildly popular […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Radioactivity plays the strings Atomic disruptor raygun [above, bottom-right] Quickly Mr. Bigglesworth – to the Cat Cave! Graphical user interface in the physical world Contact mic earrings [above, bottom-left] Dekatron timer brings vintage tube tech to the kitchen [above, top-right] Glass insulators as LED lamps [above, top-left]
There is a great time sequence of the build, testing failure and success of this fundangerous project. Got a couple hundred pallets, a reasonably flat space and some time on your hands? via Damon
Kent sent this in through the comments: Plastiki is a boat built entirely from reclaimed plastic bottles will sail from San Francisco to Sydney. The project is intended to raise awareness of the human impact on oceans and other ecosystems. The boat is made up of about 16,000 plastic bottles and is an “effort to […]
SEWbutterfly on BurdaStyle has a tutorial on how to refashion a t-shirt into a halter top.
