The SegWii: A Wiimote-Controlled Self-Balancing Robot
17-year-old hardware hacker Tijmen Verhulsdonck of the Netherlands built this self-balancing robot with two Arduinos and a Wiimote. [Via Arduino blog]
Year: 2011
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Polite houseguests print and repair
Last night I was out on an adventure. In the morning, the shower curtain fell down because the pole was a bit too short. After I pulled the paper towel tube shim out, I tried to twist the rod to lengthen it. Since it was maxed out, it needed a little something special to help make ends meet.
When I went downstairs, I took a few extra steps out to the car, got the Makerbot and returned to fire up the computer with Sketchup. It took two iterations to get the dimensions right. The new part came out sized to fit over the end of the curtain rod and take up a bit of the gap.
How-To: Easter Egg Balloons
Jeromina of Paper, Plate, and Plane has a tutorial on how to make Easter egg balloons. These are so easy to make, they are the perfect instant Easter decor piece.
Take a Phototour of this Marvelous Woodshop
Designer Keith Scharwath took a tour of Woodshop, the San Francisco studio of Jeff Canham, Lyke Bartels, Danny Hess and Josh Duthie. Check out Keith’s post about it and the nice batch of photos that he took while he was there. [via Color By Numbers]
Upcycled File Box
I think I’ll be trying this out with one of my old file cabinets, thanks to a great post from Apartment Therapy. Make sure to keep checking out our UpCraft section this month for all sorts of recycled inspiration.
How-To: Paper Flower Corsages
Brittany of House That Lars Built shares her tutorials for creating these charming paper flower corsages over on Oh Happy Day.