Tips on Printing Mechanical Parts 03/15/2011 MakerBot Industries blogger MakerBlock is working on a clockwork spider, and went the route of designing his own gears. He’s...
Arcophone Mark II Debuts 03/14/2011 Members of the Perth Artifactory hackerspace in Western Australia built a Arcophone, an instrument that uses Jacob’s Ladders to make...
Laser Light Show Fits in a Cigar Box 03/12/2011 Pete Mills, from Ann Arbor, MI, wrote in with his Cigar Box Laser Light Show. It was spring break last...
Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears 03/11/2011 Thingiverse user BenJackson designed a bracket and two gears that allow you to add numeric ontrol capability to your Etch-A-Sketch....
Mint-Tin FM Transmitter 03/11/2011 Chris’s transmitter uses only 17 parts and has a range of 100 feet indoors. The goal of this project is...
Robot Methodically Cracks Combination Locks 03/10/2011 For our Principles of Engineering class, Team JARJ has created a mechatronic system that can open any Masterlock regardless of...
Mindstorms NXT Tank Packs All The Optional Extras 03/10/2011 We posted pix of Martijn “Dino_Martino” Hellemans’ Mindstorms ‘fully functional battle tank‘ last month, and here is a video. To...
Hackerspacer Happenings: Wednesday Edition 03/09/2011 Ordinarily I want to just do Hackerspace Happenings posts 1X a week, but guess what? After yesterday’s post I got...
Hackable inPulse Watch, Now With a Screen Saver! 03/09/2011 Trammell Hudson of NYC Resistor has been playing around with his inPulse hackable watch, for which a SDK has been...
Hackerspace Happenings: Global Challenge! 03/08/2011 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
