Joe Grand drew up this schematic out to go with our first Awesome Electronics Workshop. You can also get these schematics in itunes as a pdf. Since it’s a schematic and a pdf podcast, I declare it a schematicast! Here’s a pic of the basic stamp hooked up with a piezo buzzer for the ringtone […]
This is the first part of what should be a great howto series on large scale mold making. We’re making an HPV! That’s human powered vehicle ;) We are required to have at least 1/3 of our frontal area covered by a fairing (a fairing is just an aerodynamic shell — like your car’s outer […]
Last night Make: Magazine sponsored a dorkbot meetup in a tent just outside of SXSW in Austin. Austin makers showed up and shared amazing machines, robots, and contraptions. I got their a little early and got a chance to take some video before it got super crowded. Austin makers have got it going on! I […]
Benstar writes – This is a small rear-view mirror, meant to mount on your bike helmet (or glasses, or baseball hat…) so you can see behind you with just a little turn of the head. It’s made from a bottle cap, a bike spoke and nipple, acrylic mirror, and glue. Beer-view mirror – Link.
After getting a few winks at the banks lake motel our posse headed out to a remote undisclosed location. Our team of crackerjack location planners used balloon tracking software to compile weather and windspeed data to simulate our flight and picked a location out the flight maps that would keep us from landing on railroad […]
Spluch writes – Didi Senft, also known as the Tour de France devil or El Diablo, is a renowned German inventor who has created over 100 bicycles including the largest in the world as listed in the Guinness Book of Records. This picture shows him seating atop his latest bicycle creation which is made up […]
Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! We’re using weather balloons to go up to approximately 100k feet armed with 4 cameras… 20 megapixels of […]
