Trossen Robotics has announced the winners of their latest Trossen Robotics Community building contest. This scratch-built Wall-E, by TRC member 4mem8, won first prize (a SG-5UT Robotic Arm). Trossen writes: We got to watch 4mem8 bring this guy to life and document every painstaking step that he took building this Wall-E robot from scratch. That’s […]
Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection is running a garden instrument contest this summer. Send in your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. Let us know if you enter!
On O’Reilly’s FYI, Sara Peyton has a brief interview with me about the Maker’s Notebook: Q: Tell us what made you all decide to create a notebook for the do-it-yourself crowd? A: We’ve been kicking around the idea of doing a Maker’s Notebook for a while. We figured the MAKE audience was likely big on […]
Instructables has teamed up with Discover magazine to bring you the Green Science Fair contest. Deadline for entries is June 6 – there are some great prizes! Green Science Fair Contest
Fay Rhodes, LEGO Mindstorms NXT author, is holding a contest to find an alternate foot for a camel design. The wheel used as feet for my camel design came from the Education Resource set, but now LEGO has exchanged that wheel for another that lacks the TECHNIC pin holes–making it unusable for the foot. I […]
Peter from CreateDigitalMusic writes – We’re holding a competition for makers of musical interfaces at Yuri’s Night Bay Area, starting out the day’s events at 2:30 pm. There are some crazy projects in the lineup — a number of which will also be presenting at Maker Faire, including the bubblegum sequencer, custom controller hardware and […]
The first wave of entries for our “Make a Cylon” contest have started to roll in – looks like we’re in for a wide variety of work with this one – and in case you haven’t heard yet, Flickr now does video! This is great timing for the Cylon contest – those LED visors don’t […]
