MAKE pal Todbot posted up his slides from Sketching with Hardware, it’s good stuff, he writes – “My talk was “USB on Rails”. The USB HID standard enables the sending and receiving of arbitrary data-structures (“objects”) between a host PC and a device. All without any additional device drivers, since the HID driver is built […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Coloradocrim writes – “I did a simple circuit-bend on an easy button about 3 months ago. The most common question I get is “Can you change what the easy button says when you press it?” I haven’t seen anyone else online who has done this, so here are some pics. […]
Zach writes – “headLamp is about 300 leds soldered into a metal colander (like you use for straining noodles), which happens to be the perfect size and shape for a lamp. The leds form 7 seperate segments of red, green, and blue. These segments are wired to a circuit and controlled by the parallel port. […]
Great article by Gregory Daigle on the advances in inkjet technology that might lead to robotic origami – “From the diminutive ASIMO from Honda to the colossus in the animated film Iron Giant, kids around the world know that robots are cool yet complex machines. Advances in robotics, fuel plans from NASA that read like […]
Design News has its latest “Gadget freak” how to up, build a fading LED for spooky projects – “Partial to things that go bump in the night, Bill built a circuit that slowly illuminates and fades a pair of red LEDs. It consists of two op amps, one producing a slow rising and falling voltage […]
Our sincerest apologies to all of you who have already pre-ordered the MAKE Controller Kit and are being affected by its delayed release. The issue lies with an announcement from the manufacturer that one of the crucial capabilities of the chip was possibly no longer available. At one point they said it might work, but […]
Here’s how to build your own one-person submarine, from Modern Mechanix 1933 – “Take Thrilling Underwater Cruise in ONE-MAN SUB. YOU get all the keen thrills of deep-sea diving and underwater cruising in this one-man submarine. Towed by a motor-boat, the novel craft will take you down to a depth of at least 30 feet, […]
