Open Music Labs on Piezos
Here’s a tutorial from Open Music Labs on piezo transducers.
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Air-Powered Origami Robot
This “multi-gait soft robot” may be moved by sequentially inflating its various air pockets. Kinda creepy-cool the way it undulates under an obstacle! [Wired Science via b_b]
Arduino-Controlled Pneumatic Servo
Kinetic sculptor David Bynoe of Calgary, AB, sent in this project he’s working on. Looks pretty slick! For an upcoming project I needed a pneumatic ram with a closed loop control system so I could position it accurately. Didn’t have the budget for an off the shelf solution, so I bodged one together with an […]
Open Music Labs on the ATmega328p ADC
Here’s an amazing article from Open Music Labs which provides an in-depth explanation of the inner workings of the ATmega328p ADC, and how to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it.
PCB Sprayer Machine Helps You Etch Your Own
MIT student Christian Reed built this PCB Sprayer top etch his own boards: Plenty of people have published and built CNC machines. Even some 3D printers have started to pop up. Countless tools and devices for creating projects have been published on Instructables and across the internet. All of these devices use circuit boards and […]
In the Maker Shed: Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Did you forget about Valentine’s Day (like I did) and need a gift for that special someone? Here are some great ideas from the “Geek Chic” category of the Maker Shed!
Super-Simple Bat Glove
By now, hopefully, most of you will have seen Steve Hoeffer’s Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder project in MAKE Vol 29. MAKE regular David Prutchi recently saw it, and just sent me a link to this functionally similar device built by his daughter Hannah back in October. While Steve’s rangefinder goes “all out” with an embedded […]