Manhattan area makers, get your reassembly on – Make:NYC Meeting 12 – Wednesday April 8th, 6:30PM Is it just me or is it getting warm outside? Celebrate spring with us at the next Make:NYC meeting! Challenge: Reconstruct the beast! Teams will get a box full of parts from a disassembled item. Item must be reconstructed […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Carl gives an old-fashioned marble a shot of electric oomph with this upgrade – Arduino with motor shield controlling a continuous rotation servo. The wheel turns when marbles are detected by the infrared phototransistor and LED pair next to the wheel. Full set here, includes Arduino source and demo video. […]
When Chad was a freshman in my high school program, he was talking about wanting to do a car project. The teenage car project is a time tested pursuit, an opportunity to learn many of life’s lessons, learn tools, techniques, create a useful product. Chad is currently a freshman at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where […]
I love that this guy’s project blog is called Scoop My Cat Box, and the subtitle is: “One man’s quest to offload his responsibilities onto the internet.” So far, he’s working on two projects, the titular robo cat box, and an Arduino and ultrasonic range-finder-based water dish that lets you know, over the innerwebs, how […]
Did you know that you can get Make: Online delivered to your inbox each day? Feedblitz, the service that we use, does a really nice job of formatting the content. You get the entire day’s worth of web content in a single digest email. Make: Daily Mail gives you an internally-linked “What’s In This Issue” […]
We added a lot of new products to the Maker Shed this week. One of my favorite items is the XBee wireless module. Over the next few weeks we will be adding even more cool products, and building more kits. Are there any products from the Maker Shed that you would like to see us […]
As far as downloaded files are concerned, the latest version of OS X seems to have taken a cue or two from Redmond. Eric Meyer figured out a fix for this that will allow you to selectively disable the downloaded file warnings for certain file types. Here’s his take on the problem: One of the […]
