Kinect Controlled AR Drone
This Kinect controlled AR Drone mashup from the folks at Ziekel Engineering looks like a load of fun.
Year: 2011
Arduino Light Pen
I like this demonstration of an alternate input device by Paul Bishop. He built an Arduino light pen using an Arduino, television, and photoresistor. It works by displaying a series of flashing boxes on the screen, and using the photoresistor to measure if there was a change in the amount of light that it saw […]
PVC Pipe Garbage Corral
Chalk up another win for PVC Pipe Storage solutions! I spotted this garbage can corral during one of my recent journeys around western Queens. This intersection is especially windy, so my suspicion is that whoever built this corral did so to keep the containers from blowing around whenever they’re empty. Such a simple solution to […]
Easter Egg Embroidery Sampler
I love this sweet Easter egg embroidery sampler from Sara of The Split Stitch. It’s a perfect spring project that you can complete in its entirety, or just pick your favorites and stitch them. Download the free pattern over on her blog. [via Feeling Stitchy]
Attaching Motors (and Attaching to Motors)
Recently, we’ve been messing about with motors and gears at Pemtech. Students in one of my classes are building an underwater ROV, and we don’t have any decent propellers. Rather than shop for them, we’re fabbing our own with the laser cutter and Makerbot. Earlier this week, Jett worked out the proper dimensions to fit a plate to a motor shaft. He did this by measuring out a range of holes and then cutting them in quarter inch acrlyic. Once they came out of the laser, he tried pushing the motor into each of the holes until he found the ‘goldilocks fit.’ Once we had a plate, he used the same process to cut a series of holes in the plate that could be threaded with M3 screws. This setup allows us to attach anything to a motor.
Program AVR microcontrollers using your Arduino and the Senpai shield
Jaroslaw Lupinski designed the Senpai (Shield for Extra Nimble Programming of Arduino) shield, to make it easy to program AVR microcontrollers using an Arduino: If you want to take your device to the next level, you’ll need to program a bare AVR chip to run the code you’ve developed. If you want to build around […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Pillowcase Sundress, by thezenofmaking, Skull shirt attempt by loveandasandwich, and Ladies skirt 2 by needles and lemons,