The Plasticfanpiper lives up to his name demonstrating a homemade ‘membrane pipe’ apparently built from straws balloons, and plastic valves – must be a pretty sturdy build to stand up to the air pressure. [Thanks, Stephen!] A quick search for “membrane bagpipe” turned up this interesting how to – The results produce a tone somewhat […]
A recent visitor to TechShop in Menlo Park, CA said that he was amazed by a story he was told on his tour. Initially, there was concern that tools would walk out the door at TechShop. In practice, though, the opposite has proved to be true. Members of this community-based workshop brought tools from home […]
Marcus wrote in to tell us about his latest ping pong ball electronics project, the Gravitron. In half of a ping pong ball, he’s crammed 12 LEDs, an accelerometer, and an ATmega168 for a brain. If you pick it up and tilt it, it will light the highest LED. It’s sort of poetic. If you’re […]
A company called Robot Services Group is running i-SOBOT soccer matches over the Internet. Using free video conferencing software called ooVoo, you control one i-SOBOT against an opponent’s bot on a soccer field. Another cool service the company provides is a robot test drive, where you can try controlling various mini-humanoid type bots. This might […]
Give the gift of MAKE this year, and spruce up your gift card while you’re at it! For example: Here’s a noise-making card/circuit that I built using a 555 timer IC and some other junk parts I had around the house. The robot “talks” by squeezing the leads of one of the capacitors that make […]
I really like these noodley knits made into furniture! Via BoingBoing.
It’s just a concept, but I love to see interesting ideas on using the Chumby. Designer Bruno Fosi imagines it this way: Inspired by the form of a Heart and featuring one social network that enables you and your friends to interact with each other fish, using the Chumby’s hardware! It’s possible now to fully […]
