How to Make a Zener Diode Shunt Regulator
Instructables user Kurt E. Clother shows how to make a shunt regulator out of a Zener diode.
Technology
A Maker Wedding
Software developer Phil Tucker of Toronto went all out for his wedding, creating some awesome personalized projects: rustic Edison-style hanging light fixtures, an animated Arduino LED matrix lounge table top, vinyl “flexi” record wedding invitations (complete with a lovely acoustic song the couple wrote themselves, called “Invited”), and even a bachelor party wireless accelerometer Stab-O-Meter, named after the Futurama character Roberto, the stabbing robot.
How-To: Text Your Coffeemaker
Introducing the world’s first Raspberry Pi-powered, cloud texting-enabled espresso machine, called Textpresso.
Sparkfun Interviews Beatty Robotics
Robert, Camille and Genevieve Beatty, a family of robotics enthusiasts, gets the celebrity treatment on the Sparkfun Electronics blog about their custom build of a Mars Rover replica.
OpenSkan: An Open Source Full Body 3D Scanner
HeatSync Labs’ Moheeb Zara built this full body scanner with a Kinect that raises and lowers on a gantry while a turntable rotates the subject
Arduino Powered Poker Table
Great first attempt at a poker table with an Arduino brain and LED lighting.
Bringing a Classic Marklin Z-Scale Model Railroad to Life With Arduino
“I have this train I bought in Germany,” said Lynn, who approached me at a train show, “and I’m looking for someone to build a railroad for me.”
