Origami CD Case
Do you find yourself always hunting around for a case to protect that DVD you just burned for a friend? Next time, try folding up this simple origami case from a standard letter-sized sheet of paper.
Technology
An AR Desktop Behind a Clear LCD
Stevie Bathiche, director of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, introduces this video from GeekWire by explaining that “it looks like we just took an LCD and took the backlight off, but that’s actually not true. There’s actually been a lot of work that Samsung has done to improve the transmission quality of this display.” Be that as it may…
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
LEGO NXT-ified Friends Robotlab
17 year-old Anika Brandsma, of the Netherlands, (known as Anika Vuurzoon in the LEGO community) built this excellent take on the LEGO Friends Olivia’s Invention Workshop set. To bring Olivia’s enviable robotics workshop to life, Anika added motors, sensors, and the micro controller brain from a Mindstorms NXT set. She hid the mechanisms below the […]
How-To: LCD Controlled by BeagleBone
Nuno Alves, an assistant professor of computer engineering at Western New England University, has been experimenting with the BeagleBone and posted an excellent how-to on getting the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780 compatible LCD screens working with the embedded Linux platform.
In the Maker Shed: The MakerShield
So you have an Arduino and you want to do more than blink the on-board LED, right? You’re going to need a way to hook up circuits and sensors, so you need a MakerShield!
New and Awesome on Make: Projects
Some new projects from our collaborative wiki, Make: Projects: hidden garden sprinklers, super easy bucket platform shoes, and more!