MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Doug had a problem to solve: when he swims early in the morning, there’s not enough light to see the pool’s pace clock at the end of the lane. Like any good maker, he devised his own solution. He built a waterproof swim timer that uses an LED display to show your time.
Chris Walker, the author of Getting Started with Netduino, is presenting a free webcast (preregistration required) on Friday, April 13, 2012: Start building electronics projects with Netduino, the popular open source hardware platform that’s captured the imagination of makers and hobbyists worldwide. Join Chris Walker, inventor of the Netduino and author of Getting Started with […]
Weekend Projects is back! This year we’ll be making more with LEDs (but of course!), lasers, and solar power; we’ll be building bots, rovers, and bending circuits, among other projects. And for our first build – Game Show Buttons – we’ll be using the versatile and legendary 555 timer.
“Aperture” is a large wall made of 130 hexagonal components, each of which contains a circular opening with a moveable iris. As the user covers and iris, it opens up, revealing the light on the other side of the wall. The work as a whole is reminiscent of Danny Rozin’s Wooden Mirror.
Larry Ogrodnek, creator of the LED NameTag kit, figured out a great way to use an RGB backlight LCD to display temperature data. His simple project lets you see rough temperature data from across a room.
Our maker this week is Ayah Bdeir, the founder and lead engineer of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets and makes it fun and easy to make interactive electronic projects.