Our pals at ROBOT magazine have a -great- review and photos of this new/low-cost bi-ped robot, the BRAT – “This pictorial shows the assembly of Lynxmotion’s, www.lynxmotion.com, new BRAT, an entry level bipedal robot that is a milestone robot. With a starting price of less than $300, BRAT offers an affordable yet sophisticated entry into […]
In the 1987 Sony introduced a solar Walkman, you can get solar panels to recharge the new Walkmans (also known as iPods) – but this might be one of the few with a solar cell built in… – “The famous “Solar Walkman” was indeed a technological marvel. Not only was this model solar powered, it […]
In the 50’s and 60’s John T. Frye, W9EGV / Popular Electronics published a series of fiction stories called “The Carl and Jerry stories” – In each story the pair acquired new skills, got their ham radio licenses and used their knowledge of electronics to get out of a jam or solve a mystery – […]
Here’s a good Eprom programmer, good for folks who hack up pinball machines and need to program their chips, $80 or cheaper around the web/eBay… – “The Batronix Eprom Programmer has been developed for amateur constructors as well as small companies that need a programming device for a very affordable price but don’t want to […]
Here’s how to make a fan a little more exciting by adding LEDs and some old floppy drive guts, Svo writes – “Prerequisites: 1 floppy drive, defunct; 6 leds, preferrably different colours; a short length of thin wire; a short length of thicker wire; some drilling and soldering skills…It involves carefully ripping the windings and […]
Here are two pumpkin computers and they were made – [via] – Here’s a PC – and here’s a Mac (1990 Mac Classic, nice). 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 […]
You still have over a week to make an LED pumpkin. Go check out the Weekend Projects Podcast: Make A Programmable LED Pumpkin and then download the pdf instructions and you’re good to go. To make it easy, subscribe in itunes and have the video and the pdf instructions downloaded automatically for you!
