How-To: Appetizing lemon flashlight
Learn to make the Lemon Flashlight, reukpower’s electro-culinary dish.
Computers & Mobile
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Walking table
The quintessentially Dutch, singularly functional, aesthetically innovative, and yet alluringly strange table in question is by designer Wouter Scheublin. “Walking Table,” as it is cleverly named, is human-powered, incorporating a mechanical linkage that converts gentle lifting and pushing of the top into oscillations of the legs that move the table across the floor with little effort. [via NOTCOT]
Dug North launches online automata plans index
Respected automata builder, blogger, and long-time MAKE pal Dug North has started collating plans for whirligigs, mechanical toys, and other automata in a single page.
3D freehand drawing pen
Italian maker “MadSimon” sent us info and a link to this video for his 3D freehand drawing rig. He explains: It is an experimental DIY peripheral that behaves like a “3D pen.” Just hold the tip of the robo-arm, and act like you’re drawing, pressing keyboard buttons to lay down points and lines. The advantage […]
Airsoft minigun
Made almost entirely from machined aluminum by Kuba_T1000. It feeds plastic BBs from an electric ammo pack that holds 16,000 rounds. [via Hack a Day]
Hacker Trifecta: iPad, Arduino, kegerator combined in single device
John Boiles, whose extracurricular exploits as an undergraduate at UT Austin brought us iPhone-controlled dance floor lights, R/C cars, and yes, even full-size automobiles, has since moved to San Francisco and scored a job with Yelp. His latest “spare time” project, with the Yelp Engineering crew, is KegMate–a keg-mounted, Arduino-controlled data-logging suite with an iPad-based user interface. Among other features, the system reports and records the keg temperature, tracks which of its registered users is dispensing beer and how much they’ve dispensed, and collects user ratings of whatever brew happens to be on tap. [Thanks, John!]
Your Comments
And we’re back with our eleventh installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Prompted by the Make & Mend ideas from @make_tips DanYHKim had an interesting tip for re-using coffee grounds: I was patching my roof with a tar-like material, and got […]