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The iGloLED programmable RGB rope light kit falls somewhere between your garden variety X-mas tree lights and professional grade carnival ride lights. At $300 for a 16.4′ set of 120 lights, they’re one of the more expensive options out there, but if you’re looking for a novelty lighting effect that’s fun to operate, the iGloLED set has to be one of the cooler options out there. They’ve been out for a while now, but have been an iPhone-only option until now.
For around $30k you, too, could have your very own iPhone display built using 56 iPads. Though comprised of interactive displays, I’d be surprised if the display itself was interactive. Now I’m just curious how many of these it would take to build a ginormous iPod Nano display.
Laen of Dorkbot Portland started a batch PCB Order project a year ago, to make it more affordable for his friends to order prototype boards by grouping them together into larger group buys.
And we’re back with our twenty-fifth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Steve Davee made a version of the Compressed air rocket, using a Presta valve and black pipe: Thanks for such a fantastic project and such thorough documentation, Rick! Here’s […]
MAKE subscriber Xiaoji Chen of Cambridge, MA, is experimenting with mechanical logic gates made from wood sticks and rivets. Click on the image to see a Processing simulation.
With a beer fridge stocked and music blasting, engineers from across Google–and the world–spent the month of October soldering and hacking in their 20% time to connect hobbyist and educational robots with Android phones. Just two months later we’re psyched to announce three ways you can play with your iRobot Create(R), LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R) or VEX Pro(R) through the cloud.
Last week, my Juniors and Seniors are creating cellphone stands with laser cut parts. It started with a discussion about how to get a cellphone in good viewing position, and how the sound is often traveling away from the viewer. You may have noticed that when you cup your hand behind a phone in speaker mode, the sound bounces off your palm towards your ears. For many, this was a first project with the laser cutter. Others have been working with it for several weeks on the Locker Organizer project, so were able to start at a higher level.
