Trossen Robotics has announced the winner of their latest TR Community contest. The winner is Otto. Well, Otto is the bot, Kdwyer is the builder and actual winner. Trossen writes: Otto is a humanoid/track hybrid droid with an incredible range of capabilities. Kdwyer’s mission was to make an autonomous robot that could avoid obstacles, track […]
Brano Meres, a Slovakian industrial designer and engineer says of his Bluetooth-equipped Red Army phone: This is the first Soviet army phone from the 1960’s to be equipped with Bluetooth technology. It was intended for use as a Bluetooth headset with my mobile phones. To redesign this phone, Titanium and high quality wires from dismantled […]
Todbot posted up the class notes for “Bionic Arduino – Intro to microcontrollers with Arduino†he’s currently teaching at Machine Project, good stuff – Link.
Mg_man writes – After seeing all the LED menorah projects out there I thought this was the next (although warped) step.This is a melding of a hanukah menorah(chanukkiyah) and an Adafruit Industries miniPOV. The candle holders were drilled out to pass wires for the LEDs and with a little help from a soldering iron and […]
Holiday light Arduino project from Brian @ Hackszine– I wanted to take control of the lights on my Christmas tree this year, so I read everything I could about interfacing an LED matrix. The idea was to have a setup where I could turn individual lights on and off, and run a little program that […]
Justin Smith has a great collection of tips for marketing your brand, company, product, or service on Facebook: …most marketers lack a comprehensive understanding of the vast array of explicit and implicit marketing channels Facebook offers – most of which are viral. My goal here is to provide an introduction to what’s possible on Facebook […]
In preparation for work on his steam-powered car, MAKE pal Jake von Slatt went Medieval on a 29′ Cobra Sierra mobile home and turned it into a 21′ (chop, chop) car carrier. And just in time, too. On the day he finished the project, he found (and bought) on eBay a replica of a 1929 […]
