I will helping out Ladyada with her weekly “Ask an Engineer” show again, tonight is a special treat – special guest Amanda “w0z†Wozniak – she designed the ICE TUBE clock enclosure that’s in the Maker Shed. W0z is a staff Electrical Engineer at Wyss Institute and formerly an applications Engineer at Analog Devices. This […]
Everyone and their grandmamas are building cool clocks these days, and Viacheslav Slavinsky‘s “Strobeshnik” is another example. Viacheslav etched stenciled numerals into a HDD platter and strobed LEDs behind the platter to show the time. Strobeshnik uses stroboscopic effect to create the illusion of persistent numeric display. The hard drive platter has 10 digits, colon […]
Neil Fraser’s Lava Lamp Centrifuge is 10′ across, weighs 50 pounds, and spins at 42 rpm generating 3 Gs. It uses a Nexus One’s accelerometer to measure g-force. Excellent! Will lava lamps work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter? This topic spawned considerable lunch-time discussion and no clear consensus emerged. Most people initially assumed […]
Back in January, when we were kicking around ideas for monthly themes, and the movie making theme, Statff Editor Arwen O’Reilly Griffith sent out the following email about a great “maker scene” in a film. This got me thinking. There are probably a lot of such moments in films, some in movies otherwise best forgotten, […]
These little fuzzy friends come just in time to welcome spring. Check out Whit’s Knits over on The Purl Bee for the pattern and tutorial.
Tero Karvinen, one of the authors of Sulautetut, a Finnish book about embedded prototyping, was featured on Finnish National Television along with the book. Tero was kind enough to send along a translation of the interview, which starts at around 4 minutes in to the video above.
An anonymous MAKE subscriber writes in to let us know about this very cool wireless robotics platform based on the Arduino and an XBee. The purpose of the project was to teach their 9-year old son about programming in Processing. What a great way to introduce programming to kids!
