MAKE pal Tom from BotMag writes – “We just posted an expansive article, with video, on the inaugural Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup at www.botmag.com. There’s not a lot of diy how-to but there is a lot of humanoid robot eye-candy from Japan and some discussion of MANOI robot hop-ups, and a video, so it may […]
Here’s our new Make Projects: Small Form Factor PC ebook (sample chapter) on LinuxDevices… “This detailed book chapter describes how to add a Linux-based, Bluetooth-connected control interface to a scrolling LED sign. The 35-page chapter is excerpted from Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs, a 232-page O’Reilly book featuring nine interesting and instructive embedded projects, […]
John writes – “LibraryThing lets you catalog your books, but the coolest part, to me, is that they have a feature that lets you repurpose the CueCat, a late-ninties barcode scanner which was hitherto useless dot com schwag. Now you can use it to scan your books into their system! Very cool.” – Link. Related: […]
Mikest picked up some conductive velco, he writes – “It finally arrived! This stuff is expensive at 15$ a foot, but check it out, full current to a luxeon through 2 feet of hook-and-loop :) it has the neat property of acting as a resistor too… “ – Link. Any makers use this stuff? Post […]
Go-to Hacks author Paul Bausch shares another productivity problem he’s solved for himself with a bit of hacking: Windows doesn’t have a command line utility for compressing files (that I know of), and I had to come up with a way to automate some file transfers today. So I whipped up a tiny Perl script […]
Meg writes – Here’s a guide on how to make a basic vibration meter that might be helpful for people working on cars/machines – Commercial vibration meters will typically cost $1000+, and may be more than your average hobbyist needs. The parts cost of this project is $85, and it gives you a basic vibration […]
Ian and Hans made this fantastic DIY all-valve 1-inch oscilloscope… “This oscilloscope uses a 1-inch diameter Mullard DH3-91 CRT. Some nice pictures of the DH3-91 are here. I found it at a car boot sale, priced £1. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t recognise what it was: I only bought it because it looked wierd […]
