Switchblade Ninja Star
Cool mechanical toy made by Thingiverse user Zach Redding for his little brother, who requested “a ninja star where the blades pop out.” I want one water-jet-cut from stainless steel.
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Mitch Altman on Manufacturing Your Design
Mitch Altman is one of those blessed human beings who is always smiling, and the most beautiful thing about his smile is that it’s completely genuine. The man lives what he believes and loves what he does. The inventor of the TV-B-Gone, Mitch has valuable life experience to share with makers who want to manufacture […]
Cansole: Arduino Based Video Game Console in a Can
Tinkerer and author John Graham-Cumming (he wrote the Geek Atlas) created an Arduino-based gaming system that fits in a can. On the left is the main controller (the power switch is visible) and on the right is the expansion controller with its cable. The left (red) controller also has a ‘fire’ button that isn’t visible […]
The Latest In Hobby Robotics 07
Frits Lyneborg is back in his workshop in Denmark, with his guest this week: Andrew “ignoblegnome” from New Jersey.
The show is revealing great news for fans of The Yellow Drum Machine, and a look at a Matrix-inspired version of “The leave me alone box”.
Homepage of “The leave me alone box:
http://www.leavemealonebox.com/
Kairoshi’s blog:
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/d061333/27803627.html
The original Yellow Drum Machine home page:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/112
Maker Teen Inspired by Faire to Build Robot Minions
Right before this past weekend’s Maker Faire, I got an email message from Ben, a 13 year old from South East Pennsylvania. He told me an amazing story about him going to last year’s Maker Faire New York, learning how to solder, and then planning and building a telepresence robot for a science fair project afterwards. I told him I wanted to publish his story and asked to have a parent email me permission. The letter I got from his mom was amazingly moving. Not only had Ben learned soldering at the Faire and parleyed that into an amazing robot science project, he’d had a very serious illness leading up to the NY Faire and had set his sights on the Faire as a get-well goal for himself.
Replacing a Pricey Dishwasher Controller with an Arduino
UnaClocker writes: This is the problematic dishwasher I have. The control panel on the front of it died, it failed from corrosion getting into the laminated plastic PCB that it’s made up of. Not really repairable, just meant to be replaced, except that it’s a $150 part. From what I could find online, it seems to be a common failure, so why buy an overpriced part that’s just going to fail all over again?
TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists – AGAIN
TI, what the heck is going on? You are better than this, you are not SONY… via /. Texas Instruments has struck back against Nspire gamers and hackers with even stronger anti-downgrade protection in OS 3.0.2, after the TI calculator hacking community broke the anti-downgrade protection found in OS 2.1 last summer and the new […]