DIY Mobile Phone 05/02/2012 Arduino team member and MIT PhD student David Mellis created this DIY Cell Phone that packs a fascinating premise: An...
CMKT 4 West Coast Hackerspace Tour 05/02/2012 CMKT 4, the makers of Creme DeMentia Contact Microphones, are excited to announce their upcoming tour. The DeKalb, IL based...
Hackerspace Happenings for May 1 05/01/2012 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
Sixth-Scale Star Wars MAME Cabinet 05/01/2012 You can waste time when your chores are done, retro and mini-sized! This 1:6 MAME console perfectly matches the classic...
3D Printed Electromechanical Computer 04/30/2012 NYC Resistor’s Chris Fenton (who built this tenth-scale Cray-1) is building an electromechanical computer using 3D-printed parts (it doesn’t work...
Building an 8-Bit Computer From Scratch 04/30/2012 Kyle Hovey is building his own 8-bit Transistor-Tansistor Logic (TTL) computer from scratch. I set out to learn as much...
RobotGrrl Interview 04/27/2012 I loved this interview with kickass robot builder RobotGrrl by Robot Dreams. [via Adafruit]
Mindstorms Bottle Opener 04/27/2012 R.J. McNamara built this great Mindstorms bottle opener: I decided to tackle building LEGO Mindstorms NXT Bottle Openers… The task...
Power Racing Season is Heating Up 04/26/2012 The Power Racing Series (PPPRS), where grown men and women ride around on souped up toy cars (like the pink...
Voice-Controlled Wheelchair Prototype 04/26/2012 Lego builder Yaya Lu created a prototype voice-controlled wheelchair out of Lego Mindstorms NXT elements, along with such 3rd party...