MAKE pal and Roomba hacker Todbot show you how use the Roomba as a MIDI instrument, maybe we’ll have this running at the Roomba fights – “The Roomba has a piezo beeper that can play tunes. You’ve heard it. And its motors make noise. Why not put them under MIDI control? So here is RoombaMidi: […]
Silicon Graphics filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection today – so now might be a good time to check out this old favorite – How To Turn a $175,000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge [via] – Link.
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 […]
