Founded in Japan in 1962 by a nightclub owner and an accordionist, Korg has been designing, manufacturing, and selling electronic musical instruments since the beginning. Their products have introduced ground-breaking features into keyboards and synthesizers and many of their older models are considered “classics.”
Jan DiCintio of Daisy Janie is gearing up for a fun sew-along on her blog next week. She’s just posted the materials list for this cool hip pouch. Check out her blog for all the information and get ready to start sewing on July 6!
In this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits and Andrew are looking at an interesting home made project: An environmental homemade robot, with some interesting moves, plus it’s own oxygen, hydrogen tank hooked up to a fuel cell.
Finally there is a tip from OddBot on how to use the reset button on Arduinos as a function on your projects.
Here are links of interest, related to the show:
Mr Lobster (TeleFox Whegs example)
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12583
Using a Hybrid Wheels and Legs
Whegs: http://biorobots.cwru.edu/projects/whegs/
RHex: http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/RHex/Home
Roller-Walker: http://www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/robot/walking/rollerwalker/rollerwalker_e.html
Roro (MarkusB RHex example):
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/24656
Tip: Use your Arduino EEPROM to create a button function
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26712
Here’s the full Miles O’Brien piece that aired tonight on PBS NewsHour. Really well-done, neat little package exploring the DIY/maker movement in general, the Maker Faires, the critical state of STEM education and making as a potential answer to that, and more. Follows the DeRose family and some high schoolers building projects for the Faire and then presenting them there. Good stuff.
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This picnic cutlery caddy project from Madigan at Madigan Made makes al fresco dining a snap. No more getting to the park, only to realize that you forgot plates and forks!
Wonderful Maker Faire interview of Adam Savage, conducted by Miles O’Brien, which aired tonight on PBS Newshour. Adam discusses Maker Faire and MAKE, the maker movement, the sad death of shop classes in schools, our current sweet-spot period for hacking the tech in our lives, and the need to embrace a certain degree of danger/risk in learning. A really nice piece.
