Hey those craft engineers who did the Disco Dance Floor have a new company and sell kits now, check’em out, yay more ‘lectonic kit makers! – “Our flagship product, the Disco Dance Floor Controller Board is capable of controlling up to 192 LEDs (with 4-bit intensity control) and 64 binary switches via a USB interface. […]
MAKE pal Robert writes – “We just had our third Make:Philly meeting last night and I gave a presentation on: “Make Your Own Robots: Integrating and Controlling Popular Electronics and Robotics kits with Adobe Flash” I showed off BlueMelons BlueSense Kit, MakingThings Telo kit- talked about the new Make Kit and Vex, demonstrated a LEGO […]
I saw this at Burning Man (called the Cubatron) and it was incredible, Ryan writes – “These guys just came back from Burning man, having created the worlds largest true 3D display with a bunch of programmable LED strands. And now they’re selling them, along with a USB controller box so you can program to […]
Rick writes – “This is an easy way to make your own $50+ value mood light with a minimum of parts/effort/Cost and electrical or electronic experience. Even soldering can be avoided!. Total cost could be as little as $2.” – Link. Related: DIY mood lamp – Link. HOW TO – Make a RGB mood lamp […]
Here’s a way to remove logos with sugar on all sorts of gadgets…Spanval writes – “This instructable is to show you how easy it is to remove some unwanted logo’s from cell phones and other plastic / metal products. The logo has to be of the type glued onto the surface rather then etched in […]
Spark Fun dropped a load of wonderful with some new goodies – A GSM/GPS module that you can query when you call it, awesome (you can finally make a GPS enabled rotary cell phone, ring ring) – and the open source Arduino board (see MAKE 07). GM862 Cellular Quad Band Module with GPS – This […]
RGBphil made a stunning LED watch, he writes – “This project is a circuit board for making a wrist watch size version of my minidot clock with a few more functions more applicable to a portable device. A lot of help and suggestions came from ians 01//atch binary watch. Eaglecad schematic and PCB are available […]
