No-Nonsense Beginner Hydroponics
Sean @ Make: Online writes: Our pal Jared Bouck, whose light sculpture project appeared in MAKE Volume 24, has just posted a trifecta of simple, low-cost hydroponics tutorials for beginners like me.
Month: February 2011
Magda Sayeg And Guerilla Suit’s Willie Nelson Yarn Bomb
Guerilla Suit and Knitta Please present: #Williebomb from Guerilla Suit on Vimeo. Over the weekend, Magda Sayeg (Knitta Please) and Guerilla Suit teamed up and tagged the W hotel in Austin in celebration of Willie Nelson’s inagural performance at the new Austin City Limits venue. Willie’s iconic braids and bandana were re-created in yarn to […]
BeeSim Game Using LilyPad and XBee
To teach children about complexity theory, a group from Indiana University created an electronic game called BeeSim using LilyPad Arduinos and XBee radios: During the game children wear a Bee puppet wrist band with embedded electronics to allow for game play. The children have a finite amount of time (45 seconds) to collect and deposit […]
How-To: Build Japanese Sawhorses
If Len Cullum’s Skill Set pieces have been getting you in the mood to try your hand at some woodworking, check out these gorgeous sawhorses he shows you how to build on Make: Projects. Based on the trestles from a Japanese woodworking bench, they’re moderately difficult to build, but Len does a clear job of […]
How-To: Giant Spin Art Rig
Whether the people you’re entertaining are pint-sized or adults, this super simple Giant Spin Art rig from the pages of MAKE Volume 25 is guaranteed to be entertaining. Brothers Bob and Pete Goldstein came up with the rig design in an attempt to supersize the old classic. The frame is easy to build, and power […]
IBM’s Watson vs Humans, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Wolfram
On Monday night IBM’s super computer tied the humans on “Jeopardy” – a few stumbles, by the end of the week, a winner will be declared… The computers haven’t proven to be our trivia overlords just yet. Give them at least until Wednesday. An IBM supercomputer named Watson finished one round of the TV show […]
Arduino-Based Digital Clock
While pong clocks are a dime a dozen, Ottowa, ON, maker Andrew O’Malley’s super slick DOTKLOK raises the bar. DOTKLOK is an open-source, hackable, Arduino-based digital clock that displays a series of unique time-telling animations. The passing of time is depicted with numbers and abstract/geometric patterns such as Morse code and minimal analog clock faces, […]
