Todd Weiss, of Computerworld, has a nice review of Make: Books’ Small Form factor PCs, recently released at Maker Faire: The idea is to build around a mini-ATX motherboard, which can be fit inside small containers due to its miniaturized size, giving lots of flexibility for a wide variety of innovative cases. Were you envious […]
Nick sent in this great build for improving your WiFi connection. There are a lot of different ways to make WiFi antennas, many of them featured on the MAKE blog. This is a nice design based on the Yagi antenna, which has been around since the 1920’s. I have been playing around with some wifi […]
Alexader Gurko’s “Begging Bot” plays music just by synching up the sounds a floppy and hard drive makes when spinning their motors. After the song is done, the CD drives opens up and the bot asks for donations from the public. The sound is actually pretty interesting if you watch the above video. [via]
A couple of days ago I wrote about the visited link javascript hack that lets any website operator query a user’s browser history to determine if they’ve visited any other particular site. One possible use for this is to detect which Web2.0 social applications a user visits so that you can display the appropriate link […]
As part of DIY Drones BlimpDuino Project, Chris Anderson has a new piece up about adding vectoring thrusters to a blimp. How to add vectoring thrusters to a blimp
Libelium announced the winners of their 2008 Arduino contest. MAKE:Blog’s own Becky Stern was chosen as a finalist! Head over to their site for video of each project – Libelium Arduino Contest Winners
Sparkfun’s intros their own iteration of the Arduino board – Skinny is the first SparkFun hack into the Arduino realm. It’s not perfect, but we think you’ll like this new derivative. It’s 3.3V, runs on LiPo batteries, low-cost, low-profile, and sexy red. Which is actually one of the reasons why it cannot be a certified […]
