Knitted Wrist Movement Sensor
The folks over at HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT have devised an amazing knitted sensor using resistive yarn that can detect the movement and angles of the wrist.
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How to Make a Homebrew NMOS Transistor
Jeri Ellsworth shows how to build your own NMOS transistor out of a kiln, vinyl cutter, Emulsitone, stain remover, and a silicon wafer she found on Ebay.
Maker Hangar Episode 9: Cutting and Covering Foam
Maker Hangar is a 15-part video series by Lucas Weakley. Episode 9 of Maker Hangar is the first episode of the build series for the Maker Trainer. In this episode, Lucas Weakley shows us how to lay out out the plans, cut out the foam, and cover the foam with colored packing tape. So grab […]
Projects With Ryan Slaugh: Robot Redo Part 2
Here it is, part 2 of the robot redo! In this video we finish the design and build the final robot. The video will show the highlights of the entire process.
Math Mondays Goes to Bridges
Last weekend, the Math Mondays crew traveled to Enschede, The Netherlands, to attend the annual Bridges conference. If you’re a serious math maker and don’t know about Bridges, you should. It’s a meeting that draws 200-400 people, all focused on the connections between mathematics and art, and the folks there create some seriously amazing objects that are often stunningly beautiful and which subsume often deep and surprising mathematical themes. Over the next several weeks Math Mondays will present a travelogue of sorts of the incredible objects — and people — you can encounter at Bridges.
Build Your Own Relay-Triggered Power Cord
Ryan Edwards of Sparky’s Widgets shot this YouTube video showing how to build a DIY version of the PowerSwitch Tail that can switch up to 120VAC/12A.
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Unboxing Video
This video by EV3 developer Laurens Valk shows you what you get in the box. The word on the street is that the Technic parts are mostly the same as previous sets, with the EV3 microcontroller brick showing the most changes.