John Maushammer

Rocket-Launched Camcorder

12/18/2012

Hack a $30, single-use camcorder to make it reusable, then launch it up in a model rocket and capture thrilling...

12/12/2010

Youtube user correx37 made this homemade knitting machine using old printer parts, two servos and a Picaxe-18x microcontroller. I love...

11/22/2010

The latest in robotic vacuum cleaning is the XV-11 from Neato Robotics – and it features a scanning LIDAR laser...

10/13/2010

photo courtesy of greenwithevil I wasn’t able to attend the third birthday party for San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge, but I...

10/08/2010

Software is a mix of computer instructions and data, but rarely do you get to see how the two interact...

09/04/2010

Craig Kaplan and Robert Bosch turned the Traveling Salesman Problem – a famous and important problem from computer science –...

08/31/2010

Musician and musical robot maker Charlie Williams created this fun art piece with a combination of OpenCV (an open-source computer...

01/30/2010

Tom Wilksch’s Portable Gliding Simulator offers two improvements over a traditional simulator installed in a fixed location. Built on a...

01/05/2010

A friend of mine claimed you can make a laser from a gin & tonic, and so I had to...

12/28/2009

When you connect an odd number of digital logic inverters in a ring, you’ll get a Ring Oscillator – one...