MAKE will be at the next Nerd Salon showing how to make Bluetooth / Serial controllers to control the iRobot robotic vacuum, oh and we’ll fight them to the death, bets will be taken in virtual currency (Lindens) – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make a Roomba Serial Interface – Link. Videos from Roomba fights! […]
What’s the best way to control your music collection? With a rotary phone, here’s how to make it! – [via] Translated page & Link.
Graham writes – “The project began after considering building a really small machine much like Matt Keennon’s Microbat and deciding a better bet might be to use an existing rubber design as a basis for a larger model to start with. It seems great minds think a like as you will see in this thread […]
Carl sent in his alarm clock case mod, turned out pretty nice! – I did this neat little Digital Clock-Radio casemod as an excuse to play with lexan and update my bathroom’s decor a bit. It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out pretty well. It’s nice to know you can […]
Nick writes – “Here are brief details of a project I completed using a PIC 16F73 Micro-controller. I’d seen persistence of vision clocks, like these from Bob Blick and Daryl Bender, on the Internet and wanted to take things a step further. I wanted to make a display which displayed a clock and a spinning […]
Doug writes – “For our final project, we designed and built (and exhaustively tested) an RFID-based proximity security system for use with Cornell Identification cards, which have been RFID-embedded since fall of 2003. The idea for this project was sort of spawned from our general interest in RFID technologies and the near-simultaneous occurance of Lab […]
Ryan writes “I’ve noticed a lot of attention about SketchUp happening lately, so I figured I’d send in some of my stuff. It’s basically all conceptual, but it gets the point across. SketchUp is the only 3d modeling program I use besides NURBS-based programs, and only because it’s so easy to use. I’d definitely recommend […]
