Recycled Coroplast Panniers & Fenders
Check out these slick recycled coroplast panniers and fenders from Washington area maker Kent Peterson. Built in support of a fund raising auction, the combination was built using recycled campaign signs.
Year: 2011
Make Sparks in Your Parlor
In the early 1880s, British inventor James Wimshurst created an electrostatic generator called the Wimshurst Influence Machine, influence machines being a class of generators that separate electric charges through electrostatic induction, or influence. Not only did the sparks created by the machine provide for great scientific demonstration, but experiments like the “electric kiss” were popular […]
Planting a Pineapple
If you chop off the top of a pineapple and plant it, you can grow your own pineapple in 24 months. Tickled Red has step-by-step instructions. Have you tried planting a pineapple before? Any helpful tips? [via Pee-Wee Herman]
The Beatty Family Builds Bots Together
Robert Beatty sent us these wonderful pictures of his daughters, “Lunamoth” and “Julajay,” building robots. His “maker girls,” as he calls them, have been “involved in the designing, soldering, electronics, metal fabrication, programming, and naming of the robots, and testing, with Dad guiding the way. We really enjoy it.”
How-To: Pumpkin Pie Leather
From carving to adorning to eating, pumpkins are one of autumn’s many perks. And Ooey Gooey Knits shows us one more way to enjoy them: pumpkin pie fruit leather. Time to find a pumpkin patch!
Zero to Maker: Knowing What You Don’t Know
I just got back from New York City where Eric Stackpole and I spent the weekend exhibiting and talking about OpenROV at the Open Hardware Summit and World Maker Faire. Although it wasn’t quite as big as Maker Faire Bay Area, it was an unbelievable gathering of makers and creators of all shapes and sizes. On a scale of 1 to Awesome, it was a perfect score.
Drifting Robot Car – The Latest in Hobby Robotics
Learn how to make a drifting robot car with a few cheap components and some simple code in this tutorial episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics.
The car used in the video is a “Fast Lane RC Monster Drift 1:24″ by Maisto Tech. It’s sold in many webshops and on eBay.
The code shown in the video can be downloaded here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/28787
Microcontroller used:
PICAXE 08M on AXE230 by Revolution Education (picaxe.com)
Ultra-Sonic Ranger used:
SRF05 by Devantech Ltd (robot-electronics.co.uk)
Tools used:
DSO nano – Pocket size oscilloscope by Seeed Studio (http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKSEEED11&Click=37845)
Simple Servo Tester by Gadget Gangster (gadgetgangster.com)
How to make your very first robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start
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