Last night at a mini “MAKER” fair we experimented with a high powered green laser (161mw). We were able to pop a variety of balloons instantly, sizzle our way through some plastic cups and cook a tiny part of a potato chip. Here’s the video! QuickTime (MOV). iTunes: Click here and click SUBSCRIBE.
Hide this little guy behind a door or under a desk and then spy/roam the building after hours. See, hear, listen and control everything the RoboSapien does. Connect to the smart phone’s IP address from an Internet connected computer and then control it from anywhere in the world (the robot uses the cellular network = no wires or limits! Link.
Here’s an overview of a clever email-to-RSS hack I was forwarded. If you subscribe to an email mailing list, you can set blogger.com posting to the email address you signed up with. So, each time you get an email, it’ll post that to a blog you have set up. Then blogger.com automatically has a feed you can subscribe to. (Make sure it’s not a private mailing list of course.)
It’s that time of year again…time to bust out the headlight for a midweek-after-work-night ride! But, in order to have a fun and safe nighttime mountain bike adventure you need one critical piece of equipment…a bright light to adorn your helmet and illuminate the trail ahead. The only dilemma is, a good light system can run between $200-$300 bucks. I don’t know about the rest of you, but that’s a little rich for my blood. That’s why last year I decided to take the MacGyver approach and build my own Link.
A simple project to add a platform to Ikea speaker stands, so they can actually be used with decent speakers. I’m starting to see a trend with Ikea mods, folks are buying them as cheap parts for other projects. Thanks fluffy! Link.
MAKE will be at OSCON for the rest of the week. OSCON is the annual open source convention, looks like over 2,000 people are here. MAKE will be presenting at the O’Reilly booth throughout the week (Linux devices, PSP hacking…) and doing a presentation on Friday (DIY culture stuff). Here are some quick photos I took before anyone got here. Link. Oh, if there are any sessions or MAKER-like people you want me to interview post up in the comments.
We covered the Sony