Robert writes – He’s furry, red, and robotic! Meet ElmoSapien, the fusion of Sesame Street’s legendary Elmo puppet character and WowWee’s fantastic Robosapien RS Media robot. Like VaderSapien, ElmoSapien is out to dominate the world, but in funny, silly, way! Watch the video to see ElmoSapien in action. The costume was made from a Plush […]
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Ryan (co-founder of the MAKE NYC group) made a cool keyless entry hack for his apartment awhile back, he writes – Now don’t tell the co-op board, but I crafted a plan to ditch my Mul-T-Lock key for good. My apartment building, of course, uses an intercom system to remotely unlock the front door for […]
I’m sure we’ll see a cheapo “retail” version of this iPhone light amongst the metric tons of iPhone accessories, but for now here’s how to build your own – [via] Link.
Here’s a fun kit, it’s a fully functional alarm clock and stopwatch… Link.
If you’ve previously unlocked your iPhone, or you are considering doing it in the future, you should probably hold off updating your phone for the moment. Apple’s recent 1.1.1 firmware update has been bricking hacked phones, and though there’s a method for downgrading back to 1.0.2, the telephony portion of the device will remain broken […]
The work of Dutch physicist-turned-artist Theo Jansen has inspired many, including us here at MAKE. His amazing “Strandbeest” (beach animals), giant wind-driven walking sculptures, are staggeringly cool. A number of miniature machine and robot builders have tried to incorporate some of Jensen’s ideas into their own work. Here, a Japanese maker has built a tabletop […]
