Dancing badger robot ornament
Ever see that Badgerbadger flash movie? Here’s a robot ornament version sure to taunt other robotic opponents at an upcoming robo-war tournament, nice work Vrogy! – Link & movie.
Technology
The Great Pumpkin mod
Check out Russ’s awesome pumpkin PC case complete with flickering lights, tombstone and spider themed keyboard/mouse! [via] – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on […]
ThinkSafe: A Magnetic Power Connector for Thinkpads (DIY Apple power connector!)
Outstanding, here’s a DIY version of those fancy magnetic Apple power connectors, Breath writes – “My Thinkpad’s power connection started getting flaky, so I made a magnetic connector that works just like Apple’s MagSafe connectors. It’s effective, cool-looking, and breaks away cleanly when kicked. I used common materials that I had around or could find […]
AVR Robots (photos)
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rbotguy uploaded a ton of really interesting homemade AVR based bots [via] – Link. Related: Robots @ MAKE – Link. AVR projects @ MAKE – Link.
HOW TO – Turn your EAGLE schematic into a PCB (Printed circuit boards)
Westfw writes – “In a previous Instructable, I provided an intro to schematic entry using CadSoft’s EAGLE editor. In this instructable, we’ll make a printed circuit board from that schematic. I guess I should say that we’ll make a PCB DESIGN; making the physical board is a different task, and there are a lot of […]
Autorange capacitance meter
Here’s how to make a DIY capacitance meter (it measures capacitors) E=MNC writes – “Finally, I managed to persuade myself to make a really powerful capacitance meter. This is an autoranged version, which means one does not need to adjust the range settings. Furthermore, the measuring range is quite large, from 5pF all the way […]
Light up talking Halloween pumpkin (it wants candy)
Max shows you how to make a talking and light up pumpkin for getting precious candy (Also entered in the MAKE & CRAFT contest, woo!)… [via] – Photos & how-to (site seems to be down for me)… Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers […]