Animation from 517 Seven Segment Displays
Skot Croshere’s DigitalGrid uses 517 seven-segment displays controlled by a Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA to play animations. Skot fully documented the build and even posted the schematics, PCB layout, and code.
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The Watchmaker
Dustin Cohen is a Brooklyn-based documentary film maker collecting rich, textural vignettes of local burough artisans passionate about their craft. In his latest Made in Brooklyn short, The Watchmaker, Cohen follows David Sokosh, a former gallery owner turned horologist.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
How-To: Archive Five Thousand Floppies
With about 5,000 3.5″ Amiga floppy disks stored in six wooden crates, Dwellers wanted to free up that physical space, but didn’t want to lose his archive of data. The process of archiving so many disks would be incredibly time consuming and monotonous, so he built the Floppy Autoader.
Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door
Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door
How Toys Can Save Lives on CNN’s The Next List This Sunday (April 1)
CNN’s The Next List this Sunday, April 1, will profile Jose Gomez-Marquez, who hacks toys to make inexpensive and flexible medical equipment for developing countries.
Sand Flea Robot Leaps Thirty Feet
Boston Dynamics’ Sand Flea is an eleven pound bot equipped with a device that can launch it onto buildings, over compound walls, or through a second story window. It can jump around 25 times before it needs a recharge.