Homeade monorail for puppies
James Horecka built a monorail for puppies, it’s like pouring sugar in your eyeballs, it’s that cute. [via] Link. In MAKE volume 01, Made on Earth, we have the people version if you’re thinking of building one yourself.
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Lord of the dancing robot…
Robot dancers deployed in Australia – “Gone are the twirling aerial ropes that became something of a 1990s signature for the Adelaide-based Australian Dance Theatre. Enter the robots, towering, ambulatory, geometric structures that cross art deco with Lego, or smaller, silvery creatures that swarm across the stage with bunched spidery legs.” [via] Link.
Rubberband gun, LEGO lamp and Axim hack…
Jonny5rd’s sent us word of things he has made and took photos of – “Rubberband Gun: I wanted a semi-automatic rubberband gun, i had a pizza box, two nails, and copious amounts of hot glue. This is what came of it. And yes, that is a laser pointer. Levitating Lego Lamp: This was origionally one […]
Wearable motion capture MIDI controller
Make music as you walk, dance, run around – “…a unique performance instrument for motion-capture midi control, featuring extensive customization to enable a wide range of musical and visual applications. Setup and operation is simple, intuitive and quick. The suit is modeled on the human skeletal form using rotational sensors placed on the joints. The […]
HOW TO – Build a practical HTPC
Eliot on Engadget has a sub-ish $1,000 HTPC how-to, he writes “We’ve seen a lot of home theater PCs lately and being in need of a new workstation, we decide to build one of our own. We started planning by looking around to see what others had done. It would be fun to own a […]
HOW TO – Measure temperature with the Dallas Maxim DS1820 sensor
Refik writes – “Sometimes we have a need to measure the temperature of a room, of an object or just maybe a terrarium; so it never gets too hot or too cold for your hamster and it warns the system to turn on a cold or hot fan (ok just a bit Sci-Fi). A DIY […]
NES Alarm Clock
Clever NES Alarm clock mod, the Maker, Aaron writes – “So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two […]