Continuing the tradition of homemade resonator guitars, follow along as we build a License Plate Guitar. A discarded vehicle's license plate will serve as our metal resonator top. This will be mounted atop a soundbox custom-fitted for the license plate, and the build completed with a hand-wound pickup, bridge, nut, and neck. The electronics are simple, the woodworking is fun, and the project sounds great!
Build a Filabot Wee and make all the plastic you can print, for a fraction of the retail price.
Cast metal right on your desktop!
No security system is complete without lasers.
Print your own articulating action-hero robot model.
Want to upgrade or customize your 3D printer? Build this robust extruder using a handful of tools, one online parts order, and a trip to the auto-parts store. For a heater, it uses a $10 glow plug from a diesel engine — and it performs as well as commercially available extruders.
Use this rig with a Kinect sensor to make full-body scans of your guests for 3D printing.
Build a heavy duty turntable for use with your Scan-O-Tron 3000.
You can show off your mobile photos and your phone hack savvy by turning your smartphone into an inexpensive projector.
It’s alive! Hack your My Keepon toy into a low-cost animatronic puppet with many of the same functions as Keepon Pro. We'll show you how to connect an Arduino to My Keepon’s electronics, so you can control it using just about any sensors, devices, and interfaces you can imagine, wired or wireless.
This project uses the Seeed Studio GPRS/GSM v2.0 Shield to build a versatile Arduino-based remote alarm system that can notify your cell phone within seconds, via text message, when nearby doors or windows are opened or closed, pressure sensors depressed, or motion sensors activated, just to name a few of the many possibilities. Here we'll teach you how to connect simple motion, touch, pressure, and light sensors, and how to program the Arduino to use the shield to send text messages when these detect events. It's easy to adapt this system to use other sensor devices like temperature probes, magnetic switches, tilt sensors, etc.
Some 3D printing software is easier to learn than others.