Wow, BattleKits have combat robot kits ranging from 30lbs to a massive 340lb’er… all based on the extremely successful “BioHazard” bot… if any Makers use or know about these, let us know… – [via] – Link. Related: Volume 06: Robots – Build a pair of electronic insects. LED throwies. Rodent-powered nightlight. Floating tower structure. Bug […]
Nilson writes – “I have a Pioneer DEH1850 car radio system.. it’s Pioneer’s cheapest new model.. no mp3, no blue lcd, no … But, I have an iPAQ rx3715 which I use as, mostly, an mp3 player (though I get some matlab stuff done in it too). So, I figured: why not jack an extra […]
Here’s a step by step guide for mounting a 2×16 character LCD in your computer and interfacing with it… – Link.
Tonyvr writes in with this deal on BOE-BOTs – “Cheap BOE-BOTS are back at MicroCenter again, but at $70 instead of the previous $50. This is still a terrific deal, as list price is $149. I bought 20 kits at $50, and although the boxes were battered, and had “Radio Shack” price stickers on them, […]
Clinton made a shocking alarm clock, literally, he writes – “The idea for this project came to me about a year ago, it was right around the time I made the homebrew handheld shocker. I wanted to make something that I could shock my unsuspecting friends with and yet have it still be very annoying, […]
Jonathan Westhues has a how-to on cloning your own Verichip (schematics, parts list, gerber and source available) he writes – “I used a relatively sophisticated piece of electronics to clone a Verichip. This made things trivially easy. Even though I had never seen a Verichip before in my life, I just had to write a […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Steven and Sarah write – “Exploring micro-controllers with the Arduino NG development system. Seen here running in standalone mode with a 9V battery. Arduino makes embedded programming fun and easy by bringing together a clean and simple hardware and software development environment. Here, I’m messing with reading analog input from […]
