Mindstorms Cake Cutting Robot
This creation, by Bart and Stef, repurposes a can lid to cut cakes. You can select as many slices as you want and the NXT brick computes the angles.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Combat Gnomes
MAKE regular Shawn Thorsson, of Petaluma, CA, casts and paints these rather brilliant army man / lawn gnome mash-up figures in his home workshop. They are available in both painted and unpainted varieties in Shawn’s Etsy shop, and there’s also a Flickr set full of great in-process photos.
Controlling Mario with an Eye Tracker
These Waterloo Labs cats are looking pretty cool! I like their video series, of which this is the fourth. The second video is a how-to. In this episode we show off our Eye Mario system that allows you to play any NES video game just using your eye movements. In this video we give you […]
TSA Closes Terminal Over Science Project In Mint Tin
The item in question – wires, battery, mint tin – yah, it looks like almost every single electronic project featured here on MAKE. The TSA knows people make and travel with electronics, they have tests for whether something is an explosive or not.
Self-Serve Bike Repair Kiosk
Bike Fixation, run by Chad and Alex of Minneapolis, MN, manufactures Bike Fixtation, a bicycle repair kiosk consisting of a vending machine selling drinks, inner tubes, patch kits, and other stuff, a free air compressor and free tools connected by cables to a bike rack. [Via core77]
Sock Zombies!
Becky Stern shows you how to make brain-hungry sock zombies for Halloween! http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/10/sock_zombies.html
Mindstorms CNC Mill
This Mindstorms CNC mill was the first original model YouTube user kabeltomten made with his NXT 2.0 set.
