Use OR Logic to Build a Game Show Circuit
Weekend Projects maker Max shows off his version of Game Show Buttons, based on Experiment #21 from Charles Platt’s book Make: Electronics.
Year: 2012
How-To: Felt Tissue Holder
After attending a screening of “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” Tonya Staab wished she would have had this handy tissue holder with her. Check out her blog for a tutorial showing you how to make this felt tissue holder, good for your purse and travels.
Maker Camp Gets an Inside Look at the CERN LHC
Join Maker Camp for Field Trip Friday as they travel to CERN to get an inside peek at the HLC and the CMS Experiment!
Etching Metalized Plastic
I have been hacking on some cheap R/C cars, lately, and wanted to etch metal films off of a few of the bits. I knew that the usual strong acid and base suspects would remove it, but many folks don’t keep these substances around, for whatever reasons. I got curious about milder etchants, and did a simple test with some household chemicals.
How-To: Panda Doily Pattern
This panda doily from Ravelry user Chinami Horiba is just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! Fair warning: The pattern is available for free, but to get it you’ll have to jump through a few Facebook-related hoops after you click through the link on Ravelry.
3D Printer Made With a SCARA Arm
I love Dane Kouttron’s monster 3D printer! This project documents the re-purposing of a ‘rescued’ 1980’s IBM 7575 SCARA Robot Arm, into a functional 3D ABS printer. The project features some motor upgrades [listed earlier], documentation of encoder positioned motor control feedback theory, the interminglings of EMC2 [Linux CNC], heated workspace construction and a step […]
Self-Balancing Unicycle
21-year-old MIT computer science and electrical engineering student Stephan Boyer built Bullet, a self-balancing electric unicycle that reaches a top speed of 15 miles per hour and is the envy of his peers.