Organizing the Bookcase
What a rad video Organizing the Bookcase by Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp is. I found this over on We Love Stop Motion. I see many hours drifting away into a stop-motion haze in my future, and I’m okay with that.
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How-To: Reading Light From a Book
Rachel spotted this cool tutorial from Grathio labs. Illumination is provided by an LED strip, switched on or off by a whisker switch that detects the position of the cover. Mechanically dimmable by the simple act of opening or closing the cover at a wider or narrower angle.
Name the Geek Contest
Our friends over at Geek Crafts have just unveiled a new logo, and are hosting a “Name the Geek” contest to give her a proper moniker. You can enter your suggestion by leaving a comment over on their site, and the winning name gets an epic prize pack, including (among other things) a Jayne Cobb […]
GGHC Finalist Profile — Build Brighton
Our coverage of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge continues with a profile of BuildBrighton and their fabulous Phonicubes project.
Phonicubes is a super nerdy way of teaching kids to read using the Phonics system. It uses an Arduino Duemilanove, a protoshield, a custom wave shield, and an ID-2 RFID module for a total cost of £81, well under the team’s US$900 budget.
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, […]
GGHC Finalist Profile – Pumping Station: One
#google_ads_div_mz_hackerspace_125x125_ad_container { float:right; margin:-14px 0 5px 10px; } // The element14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge has run its course, and the number of contestants has been whittled down from 30 to three. We’ll be profiling each finalist on MAKE, starting with Chicago’s Pumping Station: One! PS:One’s project was a wearable biosensor array consisting of multiple […]
MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest Deadline Extended!
We’ve extended the deadline for our MAKE Volume 27 robot contest by one week. The new deadline is 11:59 PDT on Friday, May 20, 2011. Got bots with character? We want to meet them! We’re in search of entertaining bots that you’ve built. The most important part of this contest is the video of your […]