Control your DSLR with a Nintendo DS
Open Camera Control is a project from HDRLabs to build a custom cable to interface your DSLR with a Nintendo DS.
DIY Projects
Cajun Crawler: If Theo Jansen designed a Segway
This Segway-style transportation device uses famed kinetic artist Theo Jansen’s style of bug-like locomtion. I think the rider appears to surf on another creature, perhaps a crayfish? Cajun Crawler [via @EMSL] More: Theo Jansen papercraft walker Theo Jansen-inspired Arduino walker Interview with Theo Jansen… Reader mail: Theo Jansen signs MAKE! Lego Segway needs only NXT […]
Soup can coffee roaster
I never tire of seeing new takes on building your own sample roaster. Keeping the beans moving is the key to an even roast. Tim Eggers decided to use a drill to rotate his drum, and even cut and folded vanes into the drum to aid the tumbling. A second soup can drum focuses the heat from his stovetop burner. Genius idea, and look at those lovely beans!
A visit to All Hands Active
Last weekend, I had the great fortune to visit All Hands Active, an up-and-coming hackerspace in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cool glass bottle lamp
I dig this Cadillac Dystopic Lamp by Instructables user PopEye42, which does something I’ve been meaning to try myself for a long time–using cut 1L Perrier bottles as lampshades. I also like that the dimmer switch has a hose valve handle on it.
Steampunk coilgun pistol
Nick Thatcher’s compact coilgun uses a coil of copper wire along the barrel to launch its projectile. It’s powered by 15 photoflash capacitors juiced up by 2 AAAs. Of course the power of this gun is very much in question, the super dark video on the site doesn’t show a whole lot. It appears, however, […]
Making things at TEDActive 2010
Conference-goers had fun building tiny robots and high-tech graffiti at the TEDActive event in Palm Springs this year, thanks to Newegg and the Maker Shed. The annual get-together of big thinkers had a “lab” area where conference attendees built bristlebots, LED throwies, and RGB LED origami lamps.