The Airship: A DIY Graphic Novel
Todd Thyberg is writing, illustrating, and printing his own graphic novel.
DIY Projects
Beatty Robotics’ Awesome CNC Setup
Robert Beatty and his daughters built a great CNC mill to help them create custom robot parts. Previously we covered the Beattys’ sweet CNC-controlling PC with its custom acrylic and MicroRAX enclosure, but now we get to see it lit up inside with blue LEDs! The whole setup appears complete and looks great. In includes: […]
Gigantic Speaker, Back to the Future Style
At the start of Back to the Future, we find Marty in Doc’s lab, standing in front of a six foot tall speaker with a guitar in his hands. One strum on the strings sends him flying back into a bookshelf, emerging covered in debris. This scene was the boyhood inspiration for two University of Wisconsin students and their attempt to recreate that speaker.
LED & Acrylic Zoetrope
An edge-lit acrylic zoetrope based on the linux game Word War VI. The game was written by Steve Cameron, a fellow member of hackerspace TX/RX Labs. I was looking to do a zoetrope project and his vector based game was perfect for a straight forward laser etched animation. The display is a series of 12 […]
Weekend Projects – Monkey Couch Guardian
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Monkey-Couch-Guardian/2232/1
Combine an Arduino with a proximity sensor, and make an obnoxious device to discourage cats and other fur-shedding pets from jumping on beds and couches. This project will also introduce you to the SPDT relay, a fundamental component of hobbyist electronics projects.
That’s No Moon… That’s a Pumpkin!
With Halloween rolling around soon, it seems appropriate to feature a geek-tastic decoration such as this pumpkin made to look like the Death Star.
Arduino-Controlled Vocal Effects Box
Amanda Ghassaei built this sweet vocal effects box: This effects box uses an Arduino to sample incoming audio at 40kHz with 8 bit precision, the audio data is then digitally pitch shifted and distorted to produce a wide variety of effects. To minimize the amount of computation required by the Arduino, I used a technique […]
