Dingolishious tipped us off to a cheap way to receive power outage notifications, as well as remotely power-cycle electronics. Our remote wireless site keep being unplugged or having the circuit trip from some combination of cleaning devices. I took a spare UPS and asked if we could get a $200 SNMP card for it so […]
The i-Sobot, Tomy’s mini-humanoid, has barely been stacked on stores shelves and already toybot enthusiasts have been busy making silly videos with them (as has been widely done with Robosapien and other consumer robot “toys”). The above all-in-good-fun goofiness is brought to you by Robert Oschler, chief meatbot at Robots Rule. Looking at this elaborate […]
This Instructable shows you how to create an electro-mechanical deadbolt that’s controlled by an X10 module and remote. Build a Remote Control Deadbolt – Link
Maker Jason Wolf sent us a link to his page detailing his build of half-mil Tesla Coil. Nice docs, with beautiful photos… and video. Thanks, Jason! [All our normal cautions and caveats go here about the dangers of working with high voltage, not doing anything boneheaded, ask your mother first, etc.] Wolf Engineering – High […]
I’m helping to organize a local monthly DIY community meeting in Phoenix, AZ. We’re calling ourselves Phoenix DIY, and our first meeting will be Wednesday, October 17th, at 7pm at Coffee Plantation in downtown Tempe. We want to have workshops and share our projects, ideas, and skills. Please come share and shape this community! Applicable […]
Jason writes – he Atari Punk Console is a simple electronic music circuit that you can easily put together in a weekend. The original concept was created by Forrest M. Mims III, writer of Getting Started in Electronics. At it’s simplest it’s just a 556 dual timer IC, a couple potentiometers, and a few capacitors […]
CNET has a mention about our new book ‘Making Things Talk’ here. I just received my preview copy (the book is from us at MAKE) and if you’re interested in getting knee deep in hardcore micro-controller programming for cool/artsy projects this is for you! More: Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing […]
