Floppy Drive Imperial March 09/28/2011 The nerd quotient of Silent’s project is nearly off the charts. The sound created by movement of the head, which...
Playing Tetris with DDR Controller Mats 09/28/2011 MIT students Andrew Carlson, Leah Alpert and Russell Cohen built this Tetris game that uses pads from dancing game Dance...
Lumitock, An Open Source LED Grid Clock 09/28/2011 Love Nick Veys’ clock: Lumitock is an “LED grid” clock, where the time is represented by the number of lit...
Bunnie Huang’s OHWS Talk on the Future of Open Hardware 09/26/2011 I missed the Open Hardware Summit but by all accounts Bunnie Huang’s talk, “Why the Best Days of Open Hardware...
Exhibition Honors Electronic Music Pioneer Daphne Oram 09/26/2011 Daphne Oram headed up BBC’s electronic music department in the 1960s before starting heir own studio. In February 1962, she...
Home Plastic Injection Molding 09/25/2011 My first attempt at injection molding with PETE plastic (Mountain Dew bottles). The molded part is the shape of a...
Jeri Ellsworth Talks Solenoids 09/23/2011 Jeri shows the basic construction of solenoid actuators and demonstrates the relationship between strenght and hold power relative to current...
MicroRAX/NXT Robot Class 09/23/2011 A Seattle organization called Xbot Robotics held a workshop where students built robots using MicroRAX girders and NXT microcontroller bricks....
Schuyler Towne’s 24-Part Online Lockpicking Course 09/22/2011 Schuyler Towne, the locksport aficionado who rode the Kickstarter wave to the tune of $87K, has uploaded a 24-part lockpicking...
Reno Hackerspace Opening 09/22/2011 Bridgewire is a member-funded, non-profit makerspace, hackerspace, workshop located in Sparks, NV serving the Reno-Sparks area. We’ve been busy recently...
