We were lucky enough to get our hands on one of the Red Bull TurBull Encabulator boards early, and even opening the box was a cool experience. The laser-cut wooden sides came with diffusing paper, leading me to the idea that it would make a great-looking lamp. After some more brainstorming, I decided on a programmable, lighted “MAKE” sign, and the “big letters project” was born.
The deadline for the first ever Raspberry Pi Design Contest is next week, on Thursday April 11th at 11:59pm PDT. Enter now before it’s too late. Over $3,500 in prizes will be won, including a Printrbot Jr. 3D printer for the grand prize project!
Pete Prodoehl’s beautiful MaKey MaKey Banana Pong controls a Processing pong game with game paddles made from bananas. Of course, the MaKey MaKey handles the banana inputs — that’s kind of what it does. Inspired? You can pick up a MaKey MaKey Standard Kit from the Maker Shed.
Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype product that she had designed back in 2005. “I thought what’s the biggest kick in the ass that I […]
I love this — a laser cutter just powerful enough to cut vinyl, but that’s great for creating your own PCBs. Are you sick and tired of using a tooth pick to apply solder paste? Are you still using through hole components because you don’t want to deal with soldering surface mount devices (SMD)? If […]
This tutorial series from our friends over at EZ-Robot shows you how you can build your own robot using items from around the house (like cardboard boxes) and the EZ-Robot Complete Kit (available in the Maker Shed). The resulting “BoxBot” not only looks cute, it’s quite capable!
Instructables user Re-design stores his resistors in ziplocks with ohms written on the bags. He uses an index card for a little structure and to record additional information. As someone who stores his resistors using the “big ole heap” system, this looks great to me! Another, more expensive option in a similar vein is to […]
