What time is it? If you live in the North East, it’s time to shovel! Then again, maybe it’s time to stay inside and make something? I built the Gakken Edo-Style clock kit from the Maker Shed last week, so now I’ll always know the time. The kit doesn’t include English instructions, but it does […]
One of my side projects has been to develop an open-source visual motion / optical flow sensor that may be usable in all sorts of devices, whether robotic related or not. I’ve found though that one of the most difficult parts of developing tiny vision sensors is finding the right optics. Ideally we want something […]
Garret Mace’s simulator uses an Arduino and three of his creations, a ChronoDot clock module, a ShiftBar RGB LED board, and a Satellite Module to change the color of the moon to match that of the eclipse.
After working all week on the Tron bag tutorial and video, I’m dressed to impress tonight with some EL wire on my knee brace. Some dude yelled at me for being in the front of the bus the other day, but it was because he couldn’t see my giant post-surgery knee brace under my long […]
After some time I finally got up the nerve to buy some servo brackets and put together a servo robotic arm. However I needed a stage and mobile platform for the robotic arm to go onto and thus The Sharpie Dotifier was born. The Sharpie Dotifier uses 5 servo actuators to move the arm up, […]
Zach Lieberman writes: The EyeWriter is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis to draw using only their eyes. The original design featured a pair of glasses as the basis for the eyewriter design. Since that first video, we’ve been hacking on […]
Artist Luxy McRae walks us through the process of making the tubing garment for Robyn’s “Indestructable” music video: This ‘Making Of’ video showcases a project that started over two years ago generating dynamic textiles made from liquid, air and vapor. 1.2 kilometres of transparent plumbing tubing was knitted with fishing wire to skin Robyn’s body. […]
