JR writes – “Your story on trebuchets reminded me that Punkin Chunkin is only a few weeks away. Mid-Atlantic Makers should consider a road trip to this unique sporting/artillery/MAKEing event: The trebuchets, air cannons, and rotary machines are all great fun to watch — it’s like a cross between a tractor pull, a Gallagher show, […]
Creatrope writes – “Here’s a kid’s halloween robot costume with a twist – candy-powered and ATmega16 blinky lights! Most of the material is recycled. The entire costume was assembled from concept to treat-or-treating in about an hour and half (beside the trip to buy the materials above). The only parts are had to buy are […]
Here’s a look back at some of the cutting edge electronics as seen in Popular Science 1979, I like the “Everything set” and the “Goof corrector” – “” – Link.
Lots of Makers are sending in great projects for Halloween that use the 555 timer chip, so here’s another resource to get started for all your LED blinky needs – “Timer circuit has been used in many projects and there are basically 2 types that are used these days. One of them is the use […]
Here’s a pretty simple burglar alarm you can make and toss in your car/desk drawer/whatever, it uses the handy dandy 555 timer chip… – “In this auto shut off tone generator project, once the switch to the 9V power supply is connected, the alarm will trigger at a frequency of approximately 1.27 kHz. It will […]
Circuit Cellar, Luminary Micro, and Keil are running a design competition with $10,000 in prizes and your entry may be published in the Circuit Cellar hobby electronics magazine – the kits were free, but they ran out, so if you want to enter you need to find a kit ($49 @ Mouser)… [via] – Link […]
One of my favorite makers, Todbot is doing a “Spooky Projects” class held at the Machine Project, the notes from the second class are now posted along with this fun video… – Link. Related: Spooky Projects – Introduction to microcontrollers with Aurdino – Link. Arduino Fever – The tale of a cute, blue microcontroller that […]
