How-to Tuesday: The Danger Shield for Arduino
It’s Tuesday again! This time I made a Danger Shield for my Arduino. You can read more about it at makezine.com
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John Park in the Maker Shed: LoL Shield
The LoL Shield for Arduino has Lots of LEDs! http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKJR3 music by Collin Cunningham
John Park in the Maker Shed: Joystick-driven VoiceShield
John Park of Make: magazine builds a fun audio playback device using an Arduino, VoiceShield, and 2-axis joystick from the Maker Shed http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKSKL3&Click=37845
Life-size Spitfire model kit
Yesterday’s post about artist Wayne Chisnall’s life-size model kit of his own body actually marks the second time I have posted about a life-size plastic model kit version of something, and the second time a commenter has responded by mentioning James May’s life-size Airfix Spitfire model from the first episode of his 2009 BBC series Toy Stories. Which means it’s time for a proper post. Unfortunately May’s model doesn’t have a very robust web presence. The BBC hosts a streaming teaser video for the episode, and this page has a brief review. If anybody’s got a better link, your comment would be appreciated.
Life size plastic man-model
And When I’m a Man is an unassembled, life-size, 12-piece plastic model kit version of its creator, artist Wayne Chisnall. [via Geekosystem]
Cyclon lawn tractor plow
Snow is on the minds (and driveways) for us in the northeast, so Johngineer couldn’t help but to cylon-up a lawn tractor snow plow. He writes: Back in September I attended the Open Hardware Summit — Everybody who attended got a swag-bag of goodies. Included among these was a Larson Scanner by Evil Mad Scientist […]
How-To: Gakken Inchworm string-crawling hack
Bagleemo shows us how to modify the Gakken Mechamo Inchworm to make it crawl upside down along a string with some wire coat hangers and rubber bands. He dropped a comment about it on our Inchworm build. Nice work! In the Maker Shed: The Gakken Mechamo Inchworm kit is available through the Maker Shed.