Easter themed Rube Goldberg machine
Joseph Herscher from New Zealand made this super-impressive Rube Goldberg machine about Cadbury creme eggs. I’m not going to say any more about it, just watch; such fun! Via Core77.
Year: 2009
Safe-T-Flow, controlling a hot plate for solder reflow
Limor and Phil are up to plenty of good over at Adafruit Industries, where they’re working on controlling a hotplate for soldering circuit boards. Check out the video of Limor demonstrating how the laser-cut wheel and servo controls the temperature knob for the hotplate.
Make: Talk episode #004, Friday 12 noon PT
On this week’s Make: Talk, we’ll be chatting with John Edgar Park, host of the Makers Workshop segment of Make: television. John will be talking to us about the show and about his articles in MAKE, especially the Florence Siphon Coffee Brewer from Volume 17. John is also a “character mechanic” for Disney and was […]
Wiimote-controlled airsoft gun
Jay from thecapacity created this airsoft robot that you can control with a Wiimote. He’s using Construx for the mounting hardware, a webcam for remote sighting, and an IOBridge to control the servos. I’m pretty sure I’d never want this thing in my office, but something similar with a motor operated squirt gun might be […]
Weekend Project: Flash Memory Hard Drive
Take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it’s capacity and speed.
Ask MAKE: Large LEDs and building your electronics stash
Tim writes in: What are the reasons we see light bulbs made up of lots of small LED’s instead of one large LED? As Collin showed us in his excellent video about the subject, LEDs pass electricity through “dies,” or little chips cut from a larger wafer of semiconductor; there is just a small active […]
Upcycled Clothespin Bag
CasaSugar gets in a Spring cleaning mood with this DIY project on making your own upcycled clothespin bag from and old dress.