Episode 15 was live from Make Labs in Sebastopol, California. The interns show off projects from the magazine and their own creations, like Dan Spangler’s combustion cannon called “Big Bertha.” Max Heald shows us his in-progress electric wheelchair robot, and Brookelynn Morris brings her LED hula hoop and puts the staff to the hula challenge. Get a tour of the lab from Nick Raymond and meet more folks who make the magazine and projects you love.
Chris the Carpenter is giving his wife a ride, Jaimie’s robot is bigger than him, MarkusB keeps launching rockets, Stoerpeak has made a cheap robot arm that can copy moves, and LMR is written in sweets by mogul’s m&m sorter #3. All this in what will be the last weekly version of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, as we’re changing the format of the show to be a monthly tutorial video.
The day before Maker Faire Bay Area opened, we ran into Kurt and Bobbi Pires putting the finishing touches on a unique quadricycle in the South Lot of the fairgrounds. Dubbed Opabinia Regalis, the vehicle is named after an extinct Precambrian creature and has now been reborn as an angry, fire-spewing art bike.
Cuno Pfister’s Getting Started with the Internet of Things is now available in the Maker SHED. This new book from MAKE and O’Reilly shows you how to create cloud-enabled sensor networking projects with the Netduino Plus.
During Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, we caught up with Lindsy Lawlor, creator of one of the most popular attractions at the Faire– Russell the electric giraffe. With the help of his English programmer, also named Russell, the rolling, walking, talking giraffe bot gets better every year with new sounds, touch sensors, and lights.
Make: Live airs tonight! Ep15 is live from MAKE HQ in Sebastopol, CA.
The Arduino Mega ADK has been in the MakerShed a couple weeks now and we finally have sufficient quantities to blog about it. It looks just like an Arduino Mega 2560 except it has an integrated USB host controller and extra USB port making it Google ADK compatible! Lots of cool projects are being built around this board and Android phones. Don’t you want to get in on the fun?
