PS3 Move controller teardown
Ever since it debuted I’ve wondered what made the PS3 Move controller tick. The folks over at iFixit have satisfied my curiosity with their latest teardown.
Month: September 2010
Laser-cut model rocket stands
Sascha Grant, of I Build Rockets (Melbourne, Australia), uploaded these laser-cut rocketry stands to Thingiverse. They’re for displaying his model rocketry collection. They were cut from 3mm acrylic. He did some in clear too, which makes more sense to me. 13 & 18mm Rocket Stand
Reminder: Family Challenge — Technojunk Teardown
Don’t forget, we’re closing in on our Technojunk Teardown contest. If you’re participating, do send in your entries ASAP. If you haven’t whipped out the drivers and gotten busy on a cast-off piece of technojunk yet, there’s still time! Deadline is 11:59 p.m. PDT on September 24, 2010. There are some great prizes at stake […]
GITD Iron Man cross-stitch
This fantastic Iron Man cross-stitch from Flickr user Stitchfight is a beautiful application of glow-in-the-dark thread. When I’m teaching my embroidery classes and mention glow-in-the-dark thread, folks always ask, “Well, yeah, but does it really glow?” Here’s a good answer.
Console record player retrofit
Check out Travis’ (Saskatoon, SK, Canada) sweet stereo casemod using a 60s-era Fleetwood model 4057 cabinet stereo record player/radio (like sold via Sears) with a modern turntable (a Stanton T.80 turntable, capable of digital S/PDIF output), a digital music system (via a mini-ITX computer), amp and controller. Console record player retrofit
Fab Academy in Providence now accepting students
The Fab Academy provides instruction and supervises investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. The academy is a new distributed education platform built on the infrastructure of the international Fab Lab network and taught by MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld and a global roster of visiting faculty and local instructors.
Playing with the Arduino-compatible Beagle Board Trainer
The Beagle Board Trainer from Tin Can Tools is a nifty daughterboard for the Beagle Board, offering level shifters for the built-in outputs such as GPIO, I2C, and SPI. This enables you to talk to 3.3v and 5v devices (the Beagle Board works with 1.8v signaling). Tin Can Tools sent me a Trainer board to take out for a spin.