Stephanie has an *awesome* laser project, turn a DVD burner into a high powered laser – “The laser pictured above has a peak output measured at 225 mW (average output 200 mW). It’s a visible red at about 650nm. It can light matches, pop balloons, cut electrical tape, and so forth. It can do pretty […]
The Real Elliot writes – “Build your own (needlessly tech) servomotor-driven 4-leg walker robot! First, a warning: This bot is basically a microcontroller-brain version of the classic BEAM 4-legged walker. The BEAM 4-legger may be easier for you to make if you aren’t already set up for microcontroller programming and just want to build a […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member cyenobite posted up a bunch of photos from the 11/12 MAKE: Philly meeting – Highlights included a workshop on soldering and a presentation & Maker Challenge on BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics) robotics – Link. Related: MAKE: Philly Art Buggy – Link. MAKE: Philly – Link. More: Beam bots […]
Kabukistar writes – “This instructable will show you how to make those nifty 3D virtual-reality “tours,” that you see on some web-pages, in Windows, using entirely free software. If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, this is a VR panorama from WWU’s campus, which I’ll be making for an example in this instructable…” […]
Red Scorpion writes – “I have always been frustrated with the performance of my laptop Wi-Fi. I tried many solutions to improve the signal from far away routers, but few of these worked. I’ll cover a solution that I came up with that finally did yield some results for me.” [via] – Link. Related: MAKE: […]
MAKE reader Cuthbert writes – “If you don’t like carrying two headsets with you (one for using Skype on your laptop and another for your cell phone) then here is a small adapter that will convert a cell phone headset with a 2.5mm jack plug to the 2x 3.5mm jack plugs used by PCs.” – […]
MAKE FLickr photo pool member farneawrites – “We’ve started experimenting with plexiglass and lights. Just scrape a drawing with a dimmer tip on one side of the plexiglass piece. Then make a little hole in the edge below, enough to insert a little light source as a led. Turning the light on, you will see […]
