Printable Animatronic Tail 11/15/2011 Thingiverse user Artharis created this awesome Arduino-controlled animatronic tail. You can even customize it to however many vertebrae you want....
Add Wifi to a Mindstorms Robot 11/15/2011 Dexter Industries has announced a new product, a wifi module that can be added to a NXT project. The Dexter...
Giant Hand-Built LED Matrix 11/14/2011 This LED matrix consists of 1,470 PCBs each packing 6 RGB LEDs, an IC, and other components for a total...
How Laser Sintering Works 11/14/2011 David Bourell of UT Texas describes how laser sintering works. This method of 3D printing uses a laser that fuses...
Rebuilt Lego Street View Car Packs an iPhone 11/12/2011 Mark Crosbie’s Lego Street View Car that we blogged in June is back, completely rebuilt: I wanted to re-build the...
All-Glass Steam Engine 11/11/2011 Czech maker Michal Zahradník built this steam engine entirely out of blown glass. The crankshaft is glass. The piston is...
The Art of Hacking: An Art Exhibit 11/11/2011 Running through November 26th at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The above work is “Identity Bureau, Synthetic off-the-shelf (OTS) British...
Milwaukee Makerspace’s RFID-Secured Kegerator 11/10/2011 They call this system the Beer Automated Dispensing and Security System (BADASS): Adam, Kevin and I have been working on...
Hackerspace Happenings: Safecast bGeigie World Tour 11/10/2011 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
Coil Driver 11/09/2011 If you like high-voltage sparks arcing through the air (and who doesn’t?), check out the Coil Driver, which drives an...