It’s a monumental week for whiteboard drawbots, here – LadyAda has a version she’s been working on for awhile now available for gawking and if you’re super ambitious you can make one with her new Arduino motor shields – Link (photos). I fully expect there to be dozens of these out in the next few […]
This looks like a really interesting, and fairly easy, project to build. The problem was, I wasn’t really sure what you could actually detect once you finished it. Luckily, the web site has a link to a PDF that has experiments you can perform with your new radio telescope. This system is NOT a radio […]
Here’s a Macbook air I laser etched the other night, a couple people asked me if it was possible and the answer is yes… the settings are the same (100 power / 100 speed, depending on your laser) and you’ll need a few 1/4″ “jacks” underneath the front of the Macbook air to make it […]
TimW writes – It seems like MAKE is fond of arduino projects, so here is my contribution. Here is 4 cheap $1 displays mounted in a picture frame and hooked to and arduino. Using just 6 pins, I am able to individually control 552 leds. I wrote a bit of code to write a series […]
A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lisa Smith, has designed these rapid prototyped unique RFID dongles. She calls her process the “cuteness generator.” The Touch blog writes: One of the key aspects of the project for me is the translation of the unique identity of RFID into a unique […]
Hackszine reader IraqiGeek writes: I made an application that uses libusb-Win32 and PPJoy to map the Sony Sixaxis into a windows joystick with the accelerometers working and mapped. Unfortunately, the gyro on my sixaxis seems to be faulty. So, while the code is already there to read the gyro data, it can’t be used for […]
Sparkfun writes: This is a USB to UART board that allows easy reprogramming of the LilyPad main board without the need for soldering. This board is based on the FT232RL IC from FTDI. Features: Implements full v2.0 USB protocol Needs no external crystal Internal EEPROM for device ID and Product Description strings Royalty-Free Driver support […]
