RPi Light Painting
A couple of years ago, we featured Gavin’s super cool LightScythe light-painting staff on MAKE. Since then he’s updated the project with a Raspberry Pi and an Open Beam staff, using this Adafruit light-painting tutorial.
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MAKE Presents: The Capacitor
Collin Cunningham provides an elegant description of capacitors, including early caps called Leyden jars.
How to Spot a Fake Arduino
Arduino’s Massimo Banzi wrote a lengthy piece on the Arduino blog describing the organization’s challenges with fakes, clones, derivatives, and Kickstarter name-droppers.
Maker Camp: Day 7
Today’s Maker Camp is all about robots! One of last year’s most popular Maker Camp guests was RobotGrrl so we’ve brought her back to talk bots along and Super Awesome Sylvia, who just got back from demonstrating her WaterColorBot at the White House Science Fair. They’ll be showing off their latest robot projects. We’ll also show you how to build a robot of your own—a vibrobot.
Old Waffle Iron Gets New Life as PCB Press
Who knew an old breakfast machine could be converted into a tool for creating printed circuit boards? We’ve covered many different ways of creating PCBs, including the toner transfer method. With this method, you use a laser printer to print your circuit pattern onto glossy paper or special toner transfer paper. The toner is then […]
Recharge Your Mobile Device Using Pedal Power with Weekend Projects
Turn rotational momentum into AC electricity, then convert the AC charges into a steady stream of 5V DC to charge your phone or other mobile device while bicycling! We call this project the Pedal Power Phone Charger. It’s the latest addition to our series of Weekend Projects powered by RadioShack.
Connect 4 Robot
Borzu Talaie, Ruzette Tanyag, Ryan Maksymic of Toronto’s OCAD University created the Connect4000, an Arduino controlled, web-connected Connect 4 robot that can be commanded by two players using phones or PCs connected to a web site.
