June’s Component of the Month is the diode, and a 7-segment display actually consists of seven light-emitting diodes! So, why not matrix them up? Skot Croshere built a matrix out of 512 7-segment displays: he calls it the DigitGrid: The DigitGrid is an array of seven-segment displays. There are 4096 LEDs, forming 512 7-segment digits […]
Great modular robot project that needs just a bit of a bump in its last few days on Kickstarter.
The folks from Tested have released a practical guide to the most common Arduino boards, that also includes a cameo of the Make: Special Edition Arduino Uno. Projects demoed include a countdown timer, motorized turret, handheld pong gaming device, and Arduino Robot.
Raleigh-Durham’s largest newspaper features Maker Faire North Carolina and maker Dean Segovis’ new robot, Photon.
German neurobiologist Malte Ahlers (who built a Kinect-equipped humanoid robot), sent us a progress report on his omni wheel robot. What’s especially cool about this project is that Malte really delves into how such a robot works: I didn’t want to just copy some code that I found somewhere on the internet but wanted to […]
Chrono wrote in to share PiGI, a Geiger-Müller breakout board compatible with the RPi. The Raspberry Pi is a perfect platform to be a cheap but very versatile geiger counter. It can be connected to a TV/Monitor to display a nice graphical interface, it can play the nostalgic tak, tak, taktaktak sound via audio output […]
A beautifully presented and detailed teardown of Project Glass by Scott Torborg and Star Simpson. With no idea what lay ahead they took apart, and then put back together, their Glass Explorer Edition.
