Water-to-Wine Cooler
Our sacrilegious illusion converts water into flowing red wine.
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Get Started with BeagleBone
Got a project too big for a microcontroller? This embedded Linux board offers powerful features in a small package.
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MotorShield Kit
Arduino is a great starting point for electronics, and with a motor shield it can also be a nice tidy platform for robotics and mechatronics. The MAKE MotorShield Kit, designed by Adafruit Industries in partnership with MAKE, is a full-featured motor board that can power many simple to medium-complexity projects. It’s got: 2 connections for […]
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Fetch-O-Matic: Automatic Ball Launcher
Several years ago I watched a viral YouTube video that starred Jerry the Dachshund, whose engineer owner had built him his very own automated ball launcher. I had two dogs at the time, and was also unemployed with some time on my hands, so I decided to try my hand at building one. After a […]
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True 800-Lumen Flashlight
This project is fairly simple, but should use a fairly large housing for good airflow. A good battery should last for a little less than an hour.
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Optical Tremolo Box
Plug your guitar into light-programmable waveforms with this unique effects box.
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Evil Mouse Prank
Joe Bowers is sneaky, resourceful, and rotten to the core. Whatever you do, don’t get in a prank war with him. Returning to my desk from a coffee break, I sat down, grabbed my mouse, and … nothing. The cursor was stuck to the left wall of my monitor. I shook my mouse wildly. The […]
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