Inspired by Atari’s 1979 Lunar Lander game, Iain Sharp created this excellent lunar landing simulator to honor the 40th anniversary of the landing. The electronics for Lunar Lander are based around ATMEL AVR microcontrollers. An Arduino board acts as a convenient USB to serial converter which makes the computer interface nice and easy. All the […]
Thingiverse user Webca’s Dremel attachment is output on a 3D printer in three parts and then screwed together. Plus, it’s strong enough to hold the actual Dremel instead of requiring the use of a flex-shaft.
From the MAKE Flickr pool: This cute assemble-yourself lamp is available in kit form from the Chinese website GeekCook.net (?) and costs 78 yuan. Mangled translation courtesy of Google: Impetuous anxiety in this vast land, and we afford to dream of a moment’s peace. In the night, lit one for himself only to his own […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Arduino digicam by arms22, LED lighting PCB board etching by Joel Miller, Print-your-own 35mm pinhole camera by Francesco Capponi, Improving breadboard layout through practice by mrbbking, DIY digital view camera rig by FiveseveNp90, Spiderbot walking mechanism by Richard, Beatfeat by Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika, and […]
I came across Cap’n Ron’s lamb made of butter shavings the other day, and I find it really endearing. According to Wikipedia, it is a Polish Catholic tradition to make a lamb out of butter for Easter. Which got me curious about other interesting traditional Easter foods out there. Of course there are Easter eggs, […]
Crafter Miranda Culp expressed interest in Grace Dobush’s book Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash, and Basically Have It All because she and her husband Matt Makofsky recently started their own crafty side business called Victory Garden Design. Miranda read Grace’s book and offered us this helpful review. Crafty Superstar‘s subtitle […]
One of my students, Garrett Tillman, made this tutorial for creating a space-saving under-the-shelf magnetic spice rack. More of my students’ work: How-To: Convert Hand-Drawn Illustrations to Vector How-To: Papercraft Box for Trail Mix Raw Cookies How-To: Hankerchief Tissue Box Cover
