“The Amp Hour” Turns One 07/26/2011 Congrats to The Amp Hour on a year of podcasts. 52 weeks and 52 episodes of electronic goodness! Dave Jones...
Hackerspace Happenings: Power Racing Series Gears Up for Maker Faire 07/26/2011 Imagine grown men and women racing souped-up Power Wheels and similar ride-on children's toy cars. We're talking about the Power...
Pocket Biometric Cootie Detector 07/26/2011 MAKE subscriber Rob Miles of Tacoma, WA, made a cootie detector for his kids out of an ATtiny45 with a...
Lil’ Spud, a Potato Powered Synth 07/25/2011 A potato powered transistor oscillator with light dependent resistor, which gets its power from potato battery. Low power circuit is...
Origami Crane Flaps its Wings With Memory Alloy 07/25/2011 This crane uses HT Flexinol actuator wire to flap (or more accurately, curl) its wings when the circuit is closed....
Lego Curiosity Rover 07/24/2011 Tim Goddard used Lego to masterfully recreate NASA’s Curiosity rover. Towards the end of 2011 NASA’s latest rover will be...
ADA, an Analog Interactive Kinetic Sculpture 07/22/2011 Karina Smigla-Bobinski‘s project will be displayed at FILE in São Paolo. ADA is a huge helium-filled ball trapped inside a...
Arduino-Controlled Bubble Bot 07/22/2011 I was cleaning out the garage (it’s a disaster!) and in the mess inspiration struck. It’s Summer and I have...
Project Enclosure Torture Tests 07/21/2011 PopSci blogger Vin Marshall puts pelican cases, plastic project enclosures, and junction boxes to a series of torture tests.
QC Co-Lab’s LED Matrix 07/21/2011 Quad Cities Co-Lab used GE Color Effects Christmas lights and an Arduino to build their matrix. Also check out this...
