Mr. Jalopy has a ton of great articles in MAKE, and now he has a great new blog about his adventures in making and finding, here’s a good one – “The feature that keeps the Junktown readers coming back for thrilling updates. Each week, the most compelling item from garage sales is photographed. Please take […]
This is pretty neat, etching the ships you “play” on to glasses, Mark writes – “…my favorite 3pointD crossover of recent weeks has been the pint glasses that the father of one of my corp-mates has been engraving for us based on screenshots of in-game ships. Pictured above is an Executioner, an Amarr frigate designed […]
New Scientist on the robot that running around the web right at the moment – “A two-legged robot that walks at record-breaking speed has been developed by researchers from Germany and Scotland. “RunBot” is the fastest robot on two legs – for its size. At 30 centimetres high, it can walk at a speedy 3.5 […]
UNEASYsilence sent in their video of how to run XP on your Intel Mac – “Today, Apple just released an EASY TO USE officially supported method to load Windows XP on an Intel Macintosh called “Boot Camp.” This new application renders the old XOM.efi method useless, we have archived the old instructions, however it is […]
Today we had a bit about monowheels, so here’s another type of cycle, a propellor bicycle that’s not quite working yet, but that’s ok, it’s the propellor-bicycle thought that counts – photos & video. Related: Flying Bikes… – Link.
Ryan writes – “In robotics, there is always a need to control motors. One of the simplest source of mechanical power is a servo. However, if you’ve ever programmed a microcontroller to run a servo, you probably know that anything beyond a couple channels is not the most trivial thing to do. Doing it on […]
From Mechanix Illustrated 1949, the first disposable camera – “How often have you arrived at a scenic beauty spot without your camera? A. D. Weir got caught on this pictorial limb so many times that he decided to do something about it.” – Link. Related (modern disposable camera projects): MAKE AUDIO SHOW: Hacking disposable digital […]
