Hackerspace Happenings: Red Bull Creation Challenge Concludes 07/13/2011 Red Bull Creation Challenge Ends Red Bull Creation was a cool hacker challenge where hackerspace members and small independent teams...
Plick, a Kid-Friendly Robotics Set 07/13/2011 This prototype, which consists of an Arduino Pro Mini and associated sensors and motors, is the work of Gabriel Paciornik,...
Store Front Music: The DIY Edition 07/12/2011 One of my favorite projects of Maker Faire this May was Store Front Music, a wonderful interactive installation that L.A....
Lego Robot Draws What You Look At 07/12/2011 An eye-tracker records the movement of the visitor's eyes while looking at photographs of different objects. A robot hanging from...
Perspective Lyrique, a Building Projected on a Building 07/11/2011 Perspective Lyrique uses Ableton Live to control the output of QC + MadMapper, creating the morphable image of a building...
Electronic Flower Made of Parts-Built 555s 07/11/2011 Flickr user ju4nic added this cool flower to the MAKE Flickr pool. According to ju4nic, it includes two 555s build...
Lego Carpentry Tools 07/08/2011 AFOL Marion (aka Brixe63) built these realistic Lego tools. My favorite detail is the way she used trans greenish yellow...
Controlling an LED with Sound and Pure Data 07/08/2011 Paul Sobczak got an LED to light up when a certain sound frequency is reached, using an Arduino and laptop...
Wave Simulator Draws Realtime Data from a Bouy 07/08/2011 This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. The wave intensity and...
CERN Embraces Open Hardware 07/07/2011 CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has jumped on the OSHW bandwagon. Geneva, 7 July 2011. Four months after...