Hackerspace Happenings for March 20 03/20/2012 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
3D-Printed Circuit Boards 03/20/2012 An interesting idea for printing a circuit board by Thingiverse user CarryTheWhat. The goal of this project is to enable...
Microwave Oven Hacking 101 (and 102 and 103) 03/19/2012 An anonymous tipster sent in these great videos: how to hack microwave oven transformers. The first video shows the complete...
Hacked Jaminator Band 03/18/2012 Revolution-J features several circa 1992 Yamaha Jaminators that have been hacked with Arduinos and connected to Max/MSP patches. See the...
Ambient Bus Arrival Monitor 03/18/2012 Check out John Graham-Cumming’s ambient bus arrival monitor that he built out of a hacked Linksys wireless router that pulls...
ShapeOko, the $300 CNC Kit 03/16/2012 ShapeOko, an open-source, Kickstarter-funded CNC, packs an 8″x8″ bed with a 3.5″ Z-axis. The $175 kit, which is currently sold...
Artbot Clock Draws the Time 03/15/2012 Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi’s Doodle Clock draws the time with a dry erase marker, then erases the last digit and redraws...
Lego Robots Used to Build Artificial Bone 03/14/2012 Cambridge scientists talk about using Lego Mindstorms NXT robots to create artificial bone. Why spring for budget-busting professional gear when...
How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries 03/14/2012 Check out Adam Savage’s TED-ED talk “How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries“: Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples...
Lego Mindstorms NXT Beer Machine 03/13/2012 NXT1engineer‘s remote controlled Beer Machine twists off bottle caps and trundles the beer into a mini cooling unit, which chills...
