Open Hardware Scholarship Voting!
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Year: 2011
TurtleBot Builds on Make: Projects
In the Robot Roundup section of MAKE Volume 27, we featured the TurtleBot hobby platform as a great reasonably priced open source robotics kit. (Check out our review on page 77.) Now, the fine folks at TurtleBot are sharing project builds on our DIY wiki, Make: Projects. To date, there are eight TurtleBot projects, and […]
NYC Resistor’s Hexascroller LED Sign
Phooky from NYC Resistor wrote about his hackerspace’s LED sign: It’s Hexascroller, your friendly neighborhood integrated clock/wireless notification system/annoying beep generation solution! Hexascroller was hacked together from donated LED panels for this past spring’s Interactive Party. It’s got six 30×7 LED displays, an Arduino Mega, a charmingly obnoxious loudspeaker, a DS1307+ RTC, and an XBee […]
DIY Missoni Blanket
Missoni is debuting a line of clothing and home goods for Target this month, and I don’t even need to step in a store to snag the look thanks to Vikki Howell’s DIY version of the blanket! What a perfect way to get a designer look you made yourself. I choose handmade over store-bought any day!
News From The Future: 15 Year Old, With Bionic Fingers
“A schoolgirl from Swindon has become the youngest person in Europe to be fitted with bionic fingers. Chloe Holmes, 15, lost her her fingers as a toddler when she suffered from septicaemia after contracting chickenpox.”…
Bust Craftacular Preview: Part 1
Maker Faire New York is just a few days away. With any Maker Faire, you can bet all of the makers are either en route, making finishing touches to their work, or just getting excited. Today, Thursday, and Friday, you’ll meet your Bust Craftacular vendors right here on Craft with a link to check out […]
Maker Faire New York: 10,000 Matchbooks Interview
One of the things that makes each Maker Faire so incredible is the wide variety of makers presenting. Creative folks are out there making things you may have never thought about, and they are each so passionate about what they make. We’re merely two days away from the beginning of our second Maker Faire New […]