What’s Inside an Array of Transistors? 08/15/2013 ZeptoBars recently broke down a 7-transistor ULN2003 Darlington driver chip and analyzed what each component does, identifying the resistors, diodes,...
Building Memory Registers With Transistors 08/14/2013 Teslaling's DIY RAM uses 24 NPN transistors and 24 resistors to create three bits of memory.
RobotGrrl Offering Tentacle Bot Kits 08/14/2013 Maker Faire staple Erin "RobotGrrl" Kennedy has a sweet new kit, called Botbait. It's a servo-controlled tentacle equipped with RGB...
Makers Steer Project Aura Toward the Marketplace 08/13/2013 Project Aura is a smart bike safety lighting system that creates POV light stripes on the wheels that change color...
Cyber City, a Modular Lego Cyberpunk Diorama 08/13/2013 BroLUG, a group of over a dozen Lego builders, collaborated to build this fantastic cyberpunk model. Each BroLUG member, who...
How did They Make That Huge Comic-Con Robot? 08/13/2013 How did they build that cool cosplay robot that looks like a RoboCop robot villain?
3D-Printed SkySweeper Robot Inspects Power Lines 08/12/2013 The SkySweeper, constructed with 3D-printed elements, is able to inch along power lines to inspect them. Built by UC San...
BPOW Festival Celebrates the Art of Salvaged Sound 08/09/2013 The BPOW festival in Portland, organized by Molecule Synth's Travis Feldman, celebrates circuit bending and electronic music.
12 Surprising Details About Lego Mindstorms EV3 08/09/2013 Yesterday I unboxed the new Lego Mindstorms EV3 set, and even before powering on the microcontroller brick, I'd noticed a...
Making Transistors out of Iron Pyrite 08/08/2013 Ryan Jordan's Derelict Electronics workshop helps participants create crude amplifiers out of chunks of iron pyrite.
