Like electric giraffes? We’ll have one at Maker Faire! “Based on a Tamiya model walking giraffe, the Electric Giraffe is a life sized robotic giraffe based on this small toy’s walking mechanism. The ‘Raffe actually walks, just like its small scaled design model, but towers at 17 feet tall when its neck is raised. The […]
Here are a ton of photos of the upcoming Nintendo DS lite cracked open and compared with the DS and Gameboy SP [via] Link.
Drew66 sent us in another “Maker’s heaven” store – “The Black Hole of Los Alamos, a recycler of “nuclear waste,” has the world’s most diverse stock of used scientific equipment, electronics, lab supplies, nuclear by-products, surplus items and manterials. We have over 17,000 square feet of pre-owned test equipment and laboratory supplies.” [via] Link.
Over on DIY live there is a cool project brewing on sending data with a laser beam via serial ports. Their idea? Multiplex a DVI signal and shoot it over a laser beam to a home projector. Link.
Greg writes – “I just got Make 05 and I saw your iSight Tripod mount. I think my design is better, and I even have a video up on how to build it. This provides a true stable mount for the base of the iSight and is low profiles as well. The problem with the […]
I really like this low tech scale, you use the known weight of coins to make a balance to figure out the weight of your mail. [via] Link part of the Toys from Trash site.
Abe Usher has an interesting app I’m going to try and use to back up some of my documents, it’s an app that finds all the important docs and downloads them to your iPod. But, it’s more of a security demonstration – or a now-real prop from all the action films where a hero/villian gets […]
