MeggyCade Jr, an arcade machine made from a Meggy Jr
Michale Molero turned his Meggy Jr into an Meggycade Jr arcade machine by building a custom housing for it, complete with actual arcade machine controls.
Year: 2010
Willow Garage PR2 controlled with Kinect
The OpenKinect windfall keeps rolling in. The folks over at Willow Garage look like they’ve been having a blast developing an improvised teleoperation system and generally riffing on all the wonderful possibilities inspired by the Microsoft Kinect controller and OpenKinect driver.
Giving Thanks for the Joy of Making
An experience at a university residency that reminds us all of the “joy of making”
MakerBot keyfob housing
In the concluding fourth part of the car keys series on the MakerBot blog, a sturdy replacement housing for a cracked plastic keyfob is reproduced: One half has a 2mm lip and the other has a 2mm groove – the result is a case that required channel lock pliers to shut… but isn’t coming apart […]
How-To: Bows from Candy Bags
Jessica at Zakka Life shows you how to make these pretty upcycled bows for presents using old candy bags. Related: Recycled Wrap Art
Homebrew magnetic swipe card emulator
Craig of flashingleds was apparently looking for distractions from his PhD work, so he built a magstripe card spoofer to try and gain entry into his own research lab.
Top 10: Rubik’s cube posts
I really could’t tell you why Make: Online runs so many Rubik’s cube posts. Maybe it’s because the cube is an iconic toy, or because of the intellectual, math-focused challenge. Either way, we like ’em. Here are ten Rubik’s cube posts pulled from our archives. #10 Android-powered LEGO Rubik’s Cube solver #9 Magnetic acrylic Rubik’s […]
