Mitch Alman, Jeff “Mightyohm” Keyzer, and Andie Nordgren, just released their “Soldering is Easy” comic book. It’s part of a book they are working on that will be published later this year. You can download the comic in PDF format from the Mighty Ohm website. The comic (and lots more cool stuff!) will be included […]
The Gakken EX System was a series of educational electronics kits that were produced in the late 1970s. The kits uses “denshi blocks” (also known as electronic blocks) to allow electronics experiments to be performed easily and safely. More than 25 years after its original release, one of the main kits from the series was […]
This Kinect controlled AR Drone mashup from the folks at Ziekel Engineering looks like a load of fun.
I like this demonstration of an alternate input device by Paul Bishop. He built an Arduino light pen using an Arduino, television, and photoresistor. It works by displaying a series of flashing boxes on the screen, and using the photoresistor to measure if there was a change in the amount of light that it saw […]
Jaroslaw Lupinski designed the Senpai (Shield for Extra Nimble Programming of Arduino) shield, to make it easy to program AVR microcontrollers using an Arduino: If you want to take your device to the next level, you’ll need to program a bare AVR chip to run the code you’ve developed. If you want to build around […]
17-year-old hardware hacker Tijmen Verhulsdonck of the Netherlands built this self-balancing robot with two Arduinos and a Wiimote. [Via Arduino blog]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
