Steve from Robots.net writes – “Microbric Pty Ltd of Australia offers modular robotic kits that allow the construction of a wide range of autonomous mobile robots. The modules are solderless, interconnecting parts built up on PC boards. Microbric recently sent us one of their Viper kits along with an add-on kit containing line-following sensors. The […]
Nirlog.com has a how to on dual booting a MacBook pro to OS X and Windows XP – “Finally I’ve succeeded in installing Windows XP in MacBook Pro. Now it can dual boot between Windows XP and MacOS X. There’re few issues with windows xp but being able to boot smoothly between these 2 OSes […]
Did you catch our recap of American Inventor? We live blogged the 2 hour premiere, cataloged and screenshot’ all the inventions – then we invited you to post comments, cheers and jeers in our MAKE forums, check it out and post up! – Link. Pictured here – Invention #16: The Tizzy Tube, when your kid […]
Jmumby writes – “Create a cheap yet effective dual ended light saber for a sci-fi fancy dress party. Anyone that has seen Star Wars knows Mr Kickarse ‘Darth Maul’. He was different, he had a light saber that had a blade on each end. He didn’t say much but you knew he was trouble. With […]
Ok Makers, we have a lot of new and interesting things we’re doing with MAKE, first we rolled out the MAKEbot, the first instant message bot from a magazine that delivers the news, audio, video, forums, how-tos, search, photos and more – next up – a public MAKE search for the print magazine. If you’re […]
Kevin writes – “After becoming frustrated with yet another spray bottle that didn’t work, I decided to fix the problem. And with the help of Dave Youngberg and Kevin Ostrom, developed a spray bottle that actually sprays out every drop of liquid. We’ve set up a blog and have a video here (3 mins) to […]
Ken writes – “I’ve created a modular, teleprescent, WiFi rover for $103. Pictures, CAD drawing, and more on the site. The project was created with an 8-year old laptop running Slackware Linux. Hope to add some neat gadgets like GPS, thermometer, IR…. Took my project to my local science fair this weekend and won 2nd […]
