DIY TV & Media Center 01/07/2014 Make a DIY television with the ability to display broadcast TV programs. It will also play movies with the help...
Getting Started with Arduino–The Maker Faire Edition 01/06/2014 If you were dying to learn about Arduinos last September, the place to be would have been Maker Faire, at...
Automated Mindstorms Battery Exchanger for Drones 01/02/2014 This Lego Mindstorms robot automatically switches a quadrotor's battery pack, extending its flying time without the operator having to intervene.
LEDscape On Display at Maker Faire 01/02/2014 Two projects featured at Maker Faire caught my eye because, well, I'm obsessed with LED displays right now. It turns...
Stepper Motor Makes Beats 01/01/2014 Miguel Valenzuela created a series of computer controlled beats by placing a stepper motor on a guitar's pickup.
Arduino Near-Field Communication 12/31/2013 Don Coleman demonstrates using both Adafruit's and Seeed Studio's NFC shields to read Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags.
Robot-Assisted iPhone Unboxing 12/30/2013 uFactory's uArm is equipped with a vacuum pump and solenoid valve, allowing it to lift even heavy things like a...
Make Your Own Mindstorms Cube Solver 12/27/2013 David Gilday's MindCub3r robot is made from a single Lego Mindstorms EV3 set and solves mixed-up Rubik's Cubes.
Face Detection in 10 Minutes 12/22/2013 Jason Kridner, a software architecture manager at TI and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, shows how to program a BeagleBone to run...
littleBits Synth Kit Makes Every Kid Into a Musical Experimenter 12/20/2013 littleBits' Synth Kit it's a series of open-source synthesizer modules, co-designed with synth legends Korg. In short, it lets kids...
