By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics A few weeks ago, I challenged readers to arrange six great circles so that every intersection of a pair of circles was equidistant from all of its nearest neighbors. If you’re still itching to try that challenge, best to do it before you read on in today’s […]
Emile Petrone stopped by the Mini Maker Faire at OSCON and we chatted for quite a bit about his new project, tindie, which gives makers a place to sell all sorts of creations; they’ve got top-level categories for Arduino, 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, as well as kits, boards, shields, and sensors. Just browsing around the […]
The site Open Electronics recently posted a step-by-step guide to using the EAGLE PCB design software to make your own custom Arduino Shields.
Designer Guo Cheng has developed a series of tools that use mouth power to drive them. He recently graduated from the Royal College of Art in London and has this to say about his contraptions:
Christoph Schindler of Zurich’s Schindler Salmeró made this Fitz Roy climbing wall out a single sheet of plywood, CNCed with a mountain design. “The Fitz Roy Climbing Wall is a DIY item that makes Patagonia’s famous peak accessible for kids.” says Schindler. “We used a 2500 x 1250 x 15 mm plywood-board and painted it. […]
Is everyone having fun at Maker Camp? Yesterday Jared Ficklin joined us, showing everyone how to make awesome animated GIFs. In Jared’s words: “The GIF is an image format from the early days of the interweb that was designed to support animation by stringing together multiple images into one compressed format–kind of like stop-motion animation. […]
As a promotion for TNT, BREAKFAST installed this incredibly large and fast flip dot display in Manhattan’s Herald Square. The 23 foot long display is 12 feet high and made up of 44,000 dots.
