Instructables user peterdr has put together a really excellent tutorial on how to build his CT-1 open-source hardware intervalometer for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. There’s more info about the project at his personal website, and a parts kit is for sale on Amazon.com.
Troy Davis created some very awesome recreations of Devo’s signature Energy Domes. Beginning with a tiered stack of fiberboard for the mold, through to vacuum forming, paint job, and padding – a thorough explanation can be found in his project pictorial. sweet.
Check out this homebrew accelerometer controlled USB gamepad using a PIC18F2550 from Starlino. You’ll find code and schematics on their site.
My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting.
The Boston Globe covered the preparations:
The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.
The weapons are cylindrical pieces of thick cardboard about 4 feet long. The appeal, explains young-adult librarian Ellen Snoeyenbos: “It’s totally ridiculous.”
As word of mock combat with reliably harmless weaponry spread among the town’s youthful warriors, Snoeyenbos and the Bookmarks seized on the fund-raiser as a chance to exploit their discovery of the fighting fad made popular by YouTube.
Saturday’s event will feature one-on-one tournaments, guild-on-guild skirmishes (up to 10 fighters per team), “and an all-out battle for possession of the Royal Crown,” according to the club.
Last week I wrote about how to construct a simple sheet metal “bridge,” which, in combination with an ice cube bucket and a jelly jar, makes an effective pneumatic trough for collecting gas samples over water. This week I’m going to show you how to use this apparatus to generate and collect pure oxygen, and how to use that oxygen to observe the brilliant blue flame of sulfur oxidation.
The Mystery Box kit is a clever puzzle box made by our very own John Park, host of Make: television. Here is how it works; first you assemble the laser-cut wooden box, placing a treasure inside.
Unity3D hacker Pieter Floris writes in to say that he’s finally got his Arduino connected compass controlling a camera in Unity3D. The barrier of entry continues to be lowered by projects like this. Kudos, Pieter!
