Sequencing Valve Controls Six Streams of Water 05/05/2011 Rob Torcellini of Eastford, CT, built this valve for controlling water in his aquaponics system. I love all the clever...
Lego Mindstorms Eggbot 05/05/2011 Mike Brandl’s Globe Plotter can draw the shapes of the continents on a white ball. For this robot the coordinates...
Toner Transfer and Muriatic Acid Etchant: Making PCBs at LVL1 05/04/2011 Brad Lyuster of Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace wrote an excellent guide to etching your own PCBs. A few months ago, the...
Fanscooter Adds Motorized Propulsion to a Razor Scooter 05/04/2011 Charles Guan’s Fanscooter was built in 5 hours out of busted Razor scooters, a big fan, cordless drill batteries, and...
Hackerspace Happenings: Interactive Show at NYCR and GGHSC Finals 05/03/2011 NYC Resistor Interactive Show on May 7th NYCR will be hosting our super duper Interactive Show. The theme this year...
Arduino-Controlled Ultrasonic Sensor Helps You Park Your Car 05/03/2011 Eric Rogers of Hawaii built this ranger to warn him — via FM radio — when he was about to...
Kinect Han Solo in Carbonite 05/02/2011 This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get...
Kinetic Sculpture Manipulates Rare Earth Magnets 05/02/2011 Dave Johnson’s magnet machine has a lot of fascinating details: This machine manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets. slicing one...
Interactive Light Sculpture 05/01/2011 This interactive sculpture, built by Andrew and Deborah O’Malley of Ottawa, ON, has 120 light panels each featuring a Shiftbrite...
Turning Trash into Toys for Learning 05/01/2011 At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that...
