Wood and Tape Deployable Structure
This neat expanding structure is made from pine parallelepipeds and white duct tape. Creator Ryan McCaffrey calles it the “Jitterbug.” [via Make: Online]
Month: February 2010
How-To: Stamped Fabric Spool Message
Brittni of Paper N Stitch shares how she made this unraveling message with a plain wooden spool, fabric strips and stamps.
DIY light tent using plain paper and binder clips
Do you have to take some tabletop product shots in a hurry, but don’t have access to studio seamless or a light table? Try this hack. Using plain paper and some binder clips you, too, can assemble your very own light tent.
Arduino 18 cures Mega woes, expands hardware support
Analog pins 8-15 on the Arduino Mega been giving you trouble? (perhaps you’d assumed they were fried – I did!) Turns out, due to a problem in Arduino 17, the Mega’s second set of analog inputs were temporarily out of service. Thankfully, the issue has been taken care of in the newest release Arduino IDE. […]
Cool deployable structure in wood and tape
Architecture student Ryan McCaffrey made this amazing expanding model from a bunch of pine parallelepipeds with white duct tape hinges. [via Dude Craft]
Letters From the Fab Academy, Part 2
In this series, “Letters from the Fab Academy,” Shawn Wallace, member of AS220, the Providence, RI community arts space, shares his experiences with the Fab Academy, a distributed learning collaborative built on the infrastructure of the Fab Lab network. – Gareth Making and programming circuit boards By Shawn Wallace Our assignment this time around was […]
Autonomous micro helicopters
While doing research for the next issue of MAKE, I discovered this small company, Centeye, right here in my own Northern, VA backyard. They’re developing vision chips for autonomous robotic aircraft. They have several videos on their site, showing various types of tests. Unfortunately, the videos are in WMV format only, and not on YouTube. […]