Stair-Navigating Skateboard 06/27/2012 Po-Chih Lai’s Stair Rover is designed to traverse stairs as easily as flat surfaces. The piece aims to expanding the...
HOPE Number 9 Speaker Schedule Released 06/26/2012 Check out the schedule for this summer’s Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) hacker conference, of which this is the 9th....
Power Racing Series at Maker Faire KC 06/26/2012 Insanely modded power wheels! Nerf fights! Magic smoke! Just another regular day of racing Power Wheels. The first round of...
80-Ruxpin Art Installation 06/25/2012 TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered...
Circuit Bent Coleco Talking Teacher 06/25/2012 Here’s my take on bending the Coleco Talking Teacher toy. Four bends have been added: short glitch loop, long glitch...
LED-Ring Bike Light 06/22/2012 Fabian Erblehner built this cool Lightrider bike light with reed switches triggering the lights, rather than using a microcontroller.
Flower Robot 06/22/2012 Dimos Apostolidis of GRobot.gr wrote in with his Flower Robot that uses six servos for the petals and a seventh...
iPad-Programmable LED Wall 06/21/2012 Greg Friedland of San Francisco, CA, wrote in with his 32-square-foot LED matrix. The lights in the Aurora consist of...
LVL1 Boneyard Hackathon Recap 06/21/2012 A big personal thanks to everyone who came out to the 2012 LVL1 Boneyard Hackathon. We had 9 teams consisting...
Hackerspace Happenings for June 20, 2012 06/20/2012 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
