MAKE pal I-Wei Huang has fallen big-time for mini-humanoid robots. We can only hope he won’t give up his steam obsession in the process. For ROBOTS-DREAMS, I-Wei has written an in-depth review of the A-621 GENEX Suit kit, a Polycarbonate skin/”body armor” for the Kondo KHR-2HV. Ever the kit basher, I-Wei added LED eyes to […]
Moddy has a step by step guide on hacking up hand crank flashlights with a USB port for charging 5V gadgets (electronics that get their power or can be powered from the USB port)…Link.
If the Maker movement had a soundtrack I think there might be couple songs from Lullatone & Loud Objects / Tristan Perich/1-Bit Music. I went to Glasslands Gallery in NY, it’s a warehouse-like space in Williamsburg that had a few bleepity-bloop electronic sampled music acts in one evening. Loud Objects being a live soldering show […]
There are so many Arduino projects lately (and we are now stocking, well trying to keep stocking) the Arudino kits in the Maker store I’m giving them their own category here on MAKE… What’s Arduino? Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, […]
Xsmurf has more photos of the “Arduino TV” project and code! – [via] Link.
Here’s how to mod an alarm clock so that it will enter snooze mode when you smack it, Dimension Engineering writes – In this project, we will bypass the mechanical snooze switch on top, and instead turn the alarm clock off in a much more fun way: punching it! Hopefully along the way I will […]
Wiley has a 46+ page PDF on how to make your own DIY auto-camera trigger – [via] – Link (PDF). From the pages of MAKE: Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky. To take pictures from a kite, you need three things: a kite, a camera, and a special rig that attaches the […]
