Well, now there’s something you don’t see every day. Mark Hoekstra from GeekTechnique subjected his iBook’s motherboard to successive rounds of burnination and managed to correct the infamous iBook video display defect. Had this not succeeded, I think I’d still have to give him 10 points for style. In addition to other quality control problems […]
This bot was built by Andrew Hundt, Boris Lipchin, and Ned Fox for an Intro to Robotics class at Carnegie Mellon. It uses modified DarwiinRemote software and the venerable MIT HandyBoard to tank-drive a camera-equipped LEGObot. Andrew writes: This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 […]
A friend saw this cruising around the Arizona State campus: Chris Coleman, a sculptor, has made a self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard based on Ben Smither’s design. He fabbed the metal frame himself, used an Arduino microcontroller, and published his code. Incredible; great job! Self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard – Link. Related: Homemade balancing one-wheeled scooter – Link.
Dingolishious writes – Inspired by MAKE and the Stylophone my first non blinkey light Arduino project. It is a 1 octave midi keyboard. The keyboard is etched circuit board wired up to the Ardunio using the pull up resistors on the board. The stylus is ground. Touch the note with the stylus and it send […]
While checking inbound links to his Steampunk Workshop, MAKE pal Jake von Slatt stumbled on this amazing steampunk casemod on a Polish modding forum. Really amazing, with needle guages, lots of lighting F/X, a porthole with clockworks inside, and lots of old school plumbing hardware. Not sure how much of it is functional and how […]
Mrgalleta writes – The idea is to build a replica of the Daft Punk Table sold at Habitat, very nice, but, as long as I know not sold anymore. The building process is not very complicated, the hardest part is to decide everything when your starting point is zero. I could get some ideas about […]
This short vid shows two really sweet BEAM Vibrobot “spiders” skittering around on a dinner plate. If you’re interested in learning how to make solar-powered vibrobots, I did a how-to on Street Tech a while back (see link below). BEAM spider bots face off – Link How-To: Build BEAM Vibrobots – Link
