How-To: Make Conductive Ink
There are so many cool projects out there that use conductive ink, but where to get the ink? Now you can DIY that part, too!
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Dangerous Prototypes Visits Akihabara
DangPro visited Akihabara Electric Town, the fabulous electronic component district located in Tokyo. So jealous! [via Adafruit]
Robot Tourist is a Land Surveying Blimp
Ezer Lichtenstein of ITP made an autonomous blimp called the Robot Tourist that can sense its surroundings and take photos of the landscape it flies over. This was accomplished using a Link Sprite camera, a microSD Arduino shield, and an Arduino Uno.
WWII Air Raid Siren Speaker Conversion
Listen to your iPhone loud and clear with this vintage WWII era air raid siren conversion. Austin’s Chase and Scout preserved the speaker’s industrial vibe while updating it for modern playback. You can connect pretty much anything with a standard 1/8″ headphone jack to the recessed amplifier and 6″ powered speaker for a unique listening […]
Make: Projects – Tiny Wanderer Bump Sensor and “Moth” Behavior
Two Make: Projects teach the Tiny Wanderer robot (from MAKE Volume 29) new tricks: Bump sensor navigation and light-avoiding “Moth” behavior.
Building a Robotic Bee With MEMS 3D Printing
Basically, microscale 3D printing the same way a popup book creates a three-dimensional shape. The Harvard Monolithic Bee is a millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques. This video describes the manufacturing process, including pop-up book inspired assembly. [via Ponoko]
Ask MAKE: Modding Vacuum Tubes with LEDs
On today’s Ask MAKE, a reader writes: “I have a box full of old vacuum tubes and would like to do an LED tube mod but I have no clue as to how to wire, power supplies, etc. Could you help me as far the nitty gritty on making this project work?