No-friction bicycle dynamo light kit
Here’s a kit (and how to make) a no-friction bike light dynamo. Learn about electromagnetic induction and make a bike light! – Thanks Hone Link.
Kits
Japanese do-it-yourself cars
Spluch writes – Mitsuoka Motor, a Japanese company, has just unveiled a micro kit car “K-4”, equipped with a 50cc engine on its classical tested sports car body, developed for the do-it-yourself customers in Tokyo. It is composed of more than 500 parts and takes approximately 40 hours to assemble. The Kit-Car measures just under […]
Carl & Jerry PDF – “Electronic Cops and Robbers”
Jeff just posted up a Carl & Jerry story PDF from the February 1957 Popular Electronics called “Electronic Cops and Robbers”. Carl & Jerry stories are some of my favorites, the original author John T. Frye wrote over 119 tales of electronic hackery – the book Jeff recently published of the stories with Copper Wood […]
Beginning with the Basic Stamp – Make: Video Podcast
In this special edition of the Weekend Project Podcast, Bre Pettis of Make: Magazine brings special guest Joe Grand to the podcast for the Awesome Electronics Workshop. Joe is a hardware hacker and shows you two simple projects to get you started programming with the basic stamp. Make an LED blink and make a little […]
Beginning with the Basic Stamp – PDF Cast
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 […]
Dorkbot Austin
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 […]
Assembly of vacuum tube radio kit
Shawn sent in a neat video from a radio hobbyist in Toronto, Canada, who’s put together a Gakken regenerative radio kit he ordered from Japan. “It’s a vacuum tube regenerative receiver for the AM broadcast band. Even though the instructions are only in Japanese, the illustrations in the instruction manual make it easy enough to […]
