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Jim writes in with his version of MAKE 14’s Living Room Baja Buggies – I took issue #14’s cover project and made my own version using the MINDSTORMS NXT – I have one NXT tribot and another NXT I use a remote control. I bought the goggles recommended and already owned the wireless camera, so […]
Anders Søborg built an amazing scanner that can use either the light sensor that comes with the NXT or a HiTechnic color sensor. Each line of the image is created by moving the sensor over the image at a constant speed while recording the position and corresponding sensor values with a fixed sample rate. The […]
My parents just got back from a trip to Alaska, where they saw these amazing shingle mosaics made by artist Paul Paquette. His artwork is all over the town of Seward and includes gems like this puffin and also orcas, faces, fish, and many other local sights.
Curiousinventor wrote a nice technical guide to working with ps2 controllers – Despite the large number of guides already out there that describe how to communicate with a play station controller (or guitar hero), most do not cover all the details, or do so sparsely. We consolidated and tested all the info we could find […]
Indie disco-pop starlet Doe Deere (warning: her site has sound) shows how she made over her outdated clunky wooden dresser with spray paint and sneakiness in this funny YouTube video.
There were lots of events happening in the craft world this weekend. Here’s a recap of 2 of the events we attended. (Jenny will have a full recap soon of the CRAFT launch party that was in LA on Sunday.) ICE in Atlanta CRAFT’s own Ginny Robinson (pictured above bottom left with ICE’s Christy Petterson) […]
Who doesn’t want/need a “Flux Capacitor” for their time machine? Here’s how to build one. DIY Flux Capacitor
