Today on BBtv, Xeni talks with Wired’s Chris Anderson and “airplane geek” Jordi Munoz about blimp-based aerial drones. Through his DIYDrones site, Chris is on a mission to create an under $100 UAV. The robo-blimp used in the vehicle shown in the vid is based on Jed Berk’s Blubber Bot design, featured on the cover […]
five.b.oh writes: I’ve been playing with Mobile Processing for a few months now and I recently wrote a little sketch that can shuttle bytes from an arduino board to a website and back using a cheap Motorola phone. All the work is largely based on samples and tutorials I found around the web. . . […]
Everyone knows I am a fan of Parallax, but I am not too sure if I can justify this purchase any time soon. However, this might be a good starting point for your autonomous robot project. It would save a lot of time designing the power plant and hydraulics. Then again, it might qualify for […]
MAKE art contributor Dustin Amery Hostetler/UPSO.org created this snazzy desktop wallpaper as part of a weekly series over @ the Kitsune Noir blog. The past entries are very cool too – [via]Link From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:04, p.78 Cigar Box Guitar – Link
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes This week’s CRAFT Video Podcast is the second in a two part series on how to make intarsia/stranded knitting pattern from an image in Photoshop. We’ll go from the gridded pattern we made last week to a knitted back panel for the sweater using […]
I posted earlier this week about abrasion holography, a hologram technique that uses a network of simple arc shaped scratches to encode a visible, 3D hologram into a chunk of plastic. Carl was the first to comment on exactly what was on a number of peoples minds: This is just crying out for someone to […]
This is an interesting DIY tachometer with some unusual features for the R/C enthusiast. Generally tachometer is a gauge to measure rotation speed of any rotating things. In RC hobby tachometer is the instrument for measuring and monitoring propeller revolutions per minute (RPM). This tachometer has some additional functionality like: thrust, pitch speed and power […]
