MMckenna just announced their new Emulation kit – these are simple lamps you can build/snap together and power with a 9v battery – “DEK4 is modeled after Castiglioni’s Toio. It is the second Castiglioni lamp to be emulated, but the fact remains that he was both prolific and a genius. The world is a poorer […]
Steve from Finkbuilt has a clever way to make really nice play sets for kids, he writes – “Lately, Harlan (4) and I have been using google images to find textures, then printing out inkjets to use in the construction of simple carboard sets for our PlayMobil games. Kids seem to like these homemade buildings […]
Max writes “Do you need a Bar-code scanner for your app? Today we will try to use a Metrologic Voyager Bar-code scanner to scan a coke bottle, Jagermeister bottle, CT1721 Start Kit Bard code label, and yes, UPS tracking number.” – Link.
Simple LED flasher project – “…LED flash circuit which is often used as the PIC software making practice. This circuit controls the blink of eight LEDs with the software of PIC. The blinking pattern can be changed with five switches.” [via] – Link. Related: 41 LED Flasher circuit using 555 IC – Link. Two transistor […]
Mr_tentacle posted a bit about his new robot, the Gloom II – he writes “Gloom II replaces the original “Gloom”, which died of unknown causes. This is a Solarbotics Sumovore kit, which is a decent kit as these things go, but had a few issues, the biggest being a flawed trace on the main board […]
Tom (High school student and MAKE reader) made this wood computer and documented the process from design to finish – Link.
Leo shows you how to diagnose your ATX power supply step by step before you buy new one when your computer doesn’t crank up – Link.
