Scratch-Built Wall-E Mobile PC
Tinkerer “thechoozen” of Cologne, Germany built this superb Wall-E robot with a Mini ITX computer, an Arduino, and some servos. Nearly every step is documented from concept through paint! [Thanks, Petar]
Month: May 2011
Top Cookies
Sean Ragan @ MAKE has named his picks for top ten cookies. Suggest your additions in the comments!
Make: Projects – Chemical Woodburning
If you want to apply a maker’s mark or other repeated pyrograph to wooden goods, but can’t justify the expense of a custom branding iron, a practically identical effect can be achieved by applying a strong solution of ammonium chloride, for instance using a foam rubber stamp, followed by relatively mild heat.
How-To: X-Wing Fighter From Office Supplies
Our pal, Bonnie Burton, points us to this rad Instructable from spookylean for an X-Wing Fighter that’s made entirely with office supplies. Maybe you could work out a way for it to shoot rubber band blasts!
Android Controlled 3D Printed Slalombot
Walking, rolling, floating, and swimming among the packed crowd at the Google I/O afterparty were numerous robots autonomous and otherwise under the influence. If you were to drop by the Maker Faire booth you would have gotten the chance to try your luck at navigating the slalom course with Brian Jepson’s 3D printed Slalombot using an Android smartphone’s accelerometer.
R2-D2 Trashcan
Not much information on this one. Would love to know who made it and how. [Reddit via Boing Boing.]
MAKE Karts and Wheels Contest Winner Jeremy Ashinghurst Interview
Leading up to MAKE Volume 26, we ran a fun and simple Karts and Wheels Contest. The basic criteria was that entries had to have wheels, be able to carry a person, and the build was to be documented with images and step-by-step instructions in our projects wiki, Make: Projects. We got some great entries, […]