Drone Sailboat Built by College Students 02/28/2012 The Missus, a mini (2-meter) autonomous sailboat, will compete in the 6th International Robotic Sailboat Championships this June, in Vancouver,...
PriNXT, a Functioning Lego Printer 02/28/2012 Fourteen-year-old Lego hacker Leon Overweel built this impressive Lego Mindstorms NXT printer, AKA PriNXT. PriNXT has three motors: two control...
Robot With Four-Wheel Steering 02/27/2012 MAKE blog fixture Michal Zalewski is working on an omnibot that uses a single motor to control the angles of...
Hackerspace Happenings: Weekend Edition 02/24/2012 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
Cricket-Driven Art Bot 02/24/2012 Harvey Moon wrote in with an update to his Drawing Machine art bot: It is titled “Bugs Draw For Me”...
Dangerous Prototypes Visits Akihabara 02/23/2012 DangPro visited Akihabara Electric Town, the fabulous electronic component district located in Tokyo. So jealous! [via Adafruit]
What is a Hacker? Ask One. 02/23/2012 I love this pair of “interviews” that hacker legends Mitch Altman and Emmanuel Goldstein gave to the Media Show. When...
Building a Robotic Bee With MEMS 3D Printing 02/22/2012 Basically, microscale 3D printing the same way a popup book creates a three-dimensional shape. The Harvard Monolithic Bee is a...
Following the Ten Rules for Maker Businesses 02/22/2012 Pete Prodoehl of Milwaukee, WI, who runs a web development company, is branching out into the DIY biz by selling...
Mobile Building Robot 02/21/2012 This robot, developed at Cornell, can travel along beams and modify them. BuildBot! [via Beyond the Beyond]
