In the Maker Shed: Ultimate Microcontroller Pack
Are you a tinkerer that would like to get into microcontrollers but wants to do more than simply get started? Have a look at the Maker Shed’s Ultimate Microcontroller Pack!
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Titanoboa: A 50′ Electromechanical Snake and a Few Words on How it was Made
If you made it out to Vancouver Mini Maker Faire last year, you would have seen theTitanoboa in-progress. Man, has it come a long way!
Environmental Monitoring With Arduino goes to the Gowanus Canal
Emily Gertz and Patrick Di Justo, authors of Environmental Monitoring With Arduino (available from Maker Shed and O’Reilly), wrote it to let me know that the book got used as a textbook in the recent NYC Water Hackathon. They’ve got the pictures to prove it, too! Brooklyn, NY, March 25 — Patrick and I went […]
Drummerbot Makes Beats with Arduino
Using a web-based phone controller, Steffest controls an array of fourteen percussive instruments that are packed into a setup so tightly I can’t help but use the word “cute.” Despite the amount of instruments, the bot uses only eight servos, six of which play different instruments depending on which direction they swing towards.
Luma League: Superbright LEDs Save Lives Supercheap
Inexpensive DIY phototherapy equipment is saving the lives of newborns around the world.
Printable Stub Case Adapts AA Cells to C
A standard-sized AA cell is 0.5mm longer than a standard-sized C cell, but in practice that difference is negligible. Besides “stub case,” an adapter like this is also sometimes called a “sabot.” They can be purchased commercially, but I’d just as soon print my own. And now I can. Thanks again, Thingiverse!
An Inexpensive Self-Balancing Robot
This self-balancing robot was designed and built by Kerry Wong and uses just a few ICs and some basic electronic components to get the job done. This project is definitely more up your alley if you’re interested in using discrete components rather than a microcontroller designed for prototyping, but the cost in doing it this way makes it attractive.