CloudSCAD: Design your 3D parts on the web
Like OpenSCAD, but want to be able to use it from any device?
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Top ten “internet of things” videos
Deane Rimerman, of ReadWriteWeb, put together a top ten list of YouTube’s most popular videos introducing the concepts behind the “internet of things” (basically sensors and microcontrollers connected to the internets). Our “Introduction of Arduino” video, from 2007, starring Bre Pettis and Joe Grand, is #2 on the list. Here’s a nice intro to the […]
Dirt cheap $50 Android tablet prototype
Seriously, I’ve spent more on dirt for our backyard garden than you’d end up paying for this tablet from Allgo Systems. Technology demonstrations, such as in the accompanying video, lower barriers of entry and expose new possibilities that normally wouldn’t exist. For a few dollars more than the leading name brand microcontroller board you could have a complete system with I/O, display, storage, etc. I know it’s like comparing apples to oranges, but it does get you wondering. What sort of projects would you build with access to cut-rate tablet hardware like this?
Time lapse CNC-milling a face from solid aluminum
Awesome video from YouTuber leehound:
Cutting a face using my 15 year old Milltronics CNC Milling machine. Was a great machine that I sold recently. The programming for the face was done with Mastercam V9.
[Thanks, Dustin!]
128 vintage pocket calculators
We first discovered Emil Dudek’s online index of vintage pocket calculators back in 2006, but it’s grown dramatically since then. [via adafruit]
Your Comments
And we’re back with our twelfth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Skull artist Noah noticed when the Silver Skull Spoons article was re-posted on Craft: I love Tom’s skull spoons! You might be interested to know that he was inspired […]
How-To: Snap-action Batarang prop
Instructables user spookylean shows us how to make this cool little folding prop based on a weapon from the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. He does it the labor-intensive but inexpensive way–cutting the profiles by hand from clear hardware store Plexiglas and then painting them black. I am too lazy for that and would probably just have them laser-cut from black plastic to start with. Embedded magnets lock it in the deployed position.