Digi-Comp II: 8-balls make math fun!
This mechanical binary computer is a giant calculator powered by 8 balls and Evil Mad Scientists.
Month: May 2012
Gyroscope Motorcycle You Can’t Knock Over
Here’s a potential game-changer: a two-wheeled, in-line motorcycle that won’t tip over, even if you try to knock it down. The team at Lit Motors envisions a world where nobody’s afraid to ride motorcycles because they’re as safe and intuitive as climbing into a car. At Maker Faire they’re showing off a prototype electric bike […]
Spin art robots in minutes!
The team at Spinbots is offering young makers the opportunity to create easily reconfigurable marker bots that teach the principles of design in a super fun hands-on way. While I was there, one young boy modded his bot to only have two marker legs, and everyone looked on in wonder at the cool design his […]
Robot Petting Zoo
MakerBot’s Robot Petting Zoo shows that 3D printing enables you to design and engineer things much more interesting than some of the standard Hello World tchotchke. This collection of Arduino-controlled 3d printed robots was a big hit.
DIY Pick and Place
Patrick Hood-Daniel was designing and hand assembling surface mounted circuit boards for his CNC machines at buildyourcnc.com. Working with those little tweezers gets old pretty quick; it seems only natural that he would design a pick and place machine to replace him and supplement his line of DIY machines.
Chris Anderson Packs the House!
DIY drones are the rage! Chris flew a quadcopter off the stage, and entertained droves of questions from how much weight the copters can carry, to FAA regulations, and announced that they would have a new ARM-based APM (Ardu Pilot Mega) by Maker Faire New York.
Round and Round They Go!
Swing by the South Lot and watch the Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Cars compete! An array of Cycle Kart-inspired pedal-powered contraptions racing each other – they make the perfect GIF!