I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing a lot of TV-inspired Halloween characters this year, thanks to shows like “Pan Am” – even our own Haley sported the blue suit with Meg Allan Cole on “Fox & Friends” recently! I’m pretty sure I won’t be the only Leslie Knope, AKA Pawnee Goddesses Troop […]
Our pals over at RoboGames are already…um… gearing up for another great robot bash-up next year and they want you to be there when the bolts burst and the wheels come flying off (’cause isn’t that what it’s really all about?). Once again they’re generously offering MAKE readers discounted advanced tickets to their 2012 games, their eighth annual international robot olympics.
I think our own Lish needs these awesome eyeglasses photobooth props from Oh Happy Day so all her friends can be as rad as she is in her iconic glasses.
Underground app markets and rooted phones will make it possible for anyone to disrupt internet connections. Begun, the Android war has. Couldn’t the Cylons knock out electronics too?
In her latest Intersil “Academy of Analog Pinball Wizardry” video, Jeri Ellsworth replaces an HC55564 Continuous Variable Slope Delta (CVSD) codec chip with one she reversed engineered into an FPGA. What in blue-blazes is a CVSD modulator? Watch the vid and find out — as usual, Jeri does a great job of showing how it works, how she reversed engineered it, and what the result are.
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
From user Douglas Desrochers. The barrels appear to be PVC. They rotate around a piece of 1/2″ copper pipe, and a high-intensity LED is positioned to shine down the top one, strobing as the barrels spin. The whole thing is driven by the motor and battery pack from a cheap cordless drill. Let the Predator jokes commence.
