Technology

IKEA Hobo Stove

IKEA Hobo Stove

I have a new found respect for my kitchen cutlery stand. All this time I’ve viewed it as a unitasker. Now I know that if worse comes to worst, I can turn it into a hobo stove. Check out this simple, yet effective hack from LIsbon maker Pedro Brito. I’m pretty sure Alton Brown would approve.

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is Pete Prodoehl’s lovely shot of his MakerGear Prusa Mendel printer frame. It looks like a piece of pricey Danish furniture! It was a hard choice, for me, between that and Rob Hopeless’s photograph of the transparent Venus de Milo bust he recently printed on his homemade stereolithography system.

NES Controller Interface for Etch A Sketch

YouTuber Alpinedelta32 created this simple but fun retro remix by combining a Nintendo Entertainment System controller with an Etch A Sketch. The drawing toy’s knobs are rotated by 12 volt stepper motors and they’re controlled with the d-pad of the NES controller. Behind the scenes he has an Arduino for motor control and a computer power supply to provide the 12 volts needed by the steppers. I’m guessing the next logical step is to rig the start button to flip the Etch A Sketch over and shake away the drawing.