Homemade 5-DOF manipulator arm
Antonb of Lets Make Robots built this excellent looking five-degree-of-freedom arm using pieces of Polystyrene plastic, that he laid out and cut to shape by hand.
Year: 2010
Ruffled Rose Pillow from a Bridesmaid Dress
Samantha at the SF Examiner has a great photo tutorial on how to refashion an old bridesmaid dress into a ruffled rose pillow.
Lunar landing simulator
Inspired by Atari’s 1979 Lunar Lander game, Iain Sharp created this excellent lunar landing simulator to honor the 40th anniversary of the landing. The electronics for Lunar Lander are based around ATMEL AVR microcontrollers. An Arduino board acts as a convenient USB to serial converter which makes the computer interface nice and easy. All the […]
Printable MakerBot Dremel mount
Thingiverse user Webca’s Dremel attachment is output on a 3D printer in three parts and then screwed together. Plus, it’s strong enough to hold the actual Dremel instead of requiring the use of a flex-shaft.
Wooden lamp kit
From the MAKE Flickr pool: This cute assemble-yourself lamp is available in kit form from the Chinese website GeekCook.net (?) and costs 78 yuan. Mangled translation courtesy of Google: Impetuous anxiety in this vast land, and we afford to dream of a moment’s peace. In the night, lit one for himself only to his own […]
MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Arduino digicam by arms22, LED lighting PCB board etching by Joel Miller, Print-your-own 35mm pinhole camera by Francesco Capponi, Improving breadboard layout through practice by mrbbking, DIY digital view camera rig by FiveseveNp90, Spiderbot walking mechanism by Richard, Beatfeat by Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika, and […]
Polish Butter Lamb
I came across Cap’n Ron’s lamb made of butter shavings the other day, and I find it really endearing. According to Wikipedia, it is a Polish Catholic tradition to make a lamb out of butter for Easter. Which got me curious about other interesting traditional Easter foods out there. Of course there are Easter eggs, […]