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Homemade hovercraft

05/19/2006

David has a great resource for building your own homemade hovercraft, including how to make a wall sucking robot version...

MAKE Controller Kit

05/11/2006

Last year, MAKE magazine approached “MakingThings” to create the MAKE Controller Kit, a next-generation family of modular, programmable controller boards....

Bring your Roombas to Nerd Salon! Roomba fights!

05/08/2006

MAKE will be at the next Nerd Salon showing how to make Bluetooth / Serial controllers to control the iRobot...

MAKE Volume 06 – and 5,000 posts

05/08/2006

MAKE 06 is shipping, lots of robot projects, it’s my favorite MAKE so far! – In this volume build a...

Documenting projects (photos and video) – some ideas

05/05/2006

One of the hardest things about doing projects is oddly enough, documenting them. New tools/sites like Instructables and Flickr make...

Microcontroller design projects

05/05/2006

Bruce writes – “Students were given the responsibility of choosing a microcontroller project, then designing and building it. This year’s...

Cool Tool: Third Hand

05/05/2006

Here’s a quick tool blurb we sent over to Kevin Kelly’s great Cool Tool blog – “The “Third Hand” is...

Hack a Robosapien + kit

05/04/2006

Robodyssey shows how to upgrade the Robosapien and it looks like they’re going to sell kits soon too! – ”...

Steam Armatron

05/03/2006

Crabfu SteamWorks writes “Steam Powered Armatron Hack. Taking the best toy ever made – Armatron, and hacking it to be...

GRL at Maker Faire…

05/03/2006

RESISTOR sent in the GRL video from Maker Faire – “The Graffiti Research Lab just returned from a tour of...

Zach Radding Homebrew Laser Cutter

05/03/2006

Tim writes “Zach Radding and his daughter Taylor with some robots he built with his own CNC laser cutting machines....

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT goes open source

05/01/2006

LEGO isn’t messing around, they’re open sourcing their firmware for their processor – “The LEGO Group today announced that for...

MAKE Podcast:Microsofties Make Bugbots at Maker Faire

04/29/2006

What do you get when you combine a capacitor, some LEDs, and a solar cell? A B.E.A.M. Bug Bot! B.E.A.M....

Make Movie Festival:

04/26/2006

The Make Movie Festival was a great success! Phillip Torrone, David Pescovitz, and I worked together to gather all the...

Maker Faire is Over: Media Makers Begin Sharing.

04/24/2006

The Maker Faire was a huge success. Over 20,000 people came to the faire and had a great time. Maker...

Easter eggs dyed with onion skins and ferns

04/15/2006

BigCoCo writes – “I followed the instructions given by wrique in this instructable using ferns and red onions. We also...

MAKER FAIRE – 9 more days!

04/13/2006

Joe Grand is like a kit building robot, made out of meat. Maker Faire is almost upon us — April...

MAKER FAIRE – 9 more days!

04/13/2006

Joe Grand is like a kit building robot, made out of meat. Maker Faire is almost upon us — April...

MAKE VIDEO PODCAST: Computer Controlled CNC Etchasketch

04/12/2006

In between robot battles at Seattle Bot Battle IV, I got a chance to interview Scott Ferguson about his computer...

Tinkering School

04/12/2006

Gever writes – “Back for it’s second year, the group that built a rollercoaster in two days is accepting applications...