From the MAKE: Flickr pool Anachrocomputer shares with us this handmade piece of digital days gone by – Top view of the 300 baud acoustically-coupled modem that I built in 1984. I made the double-sided PCB myself with an etch-resist pen (Dalo pen) and some rub-down transfers. The main chip is the Motorola MC14412V single-chip […]
Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more, Antti also created a very cool expansion board for the Beagle Board, and made the design available under a CC license: My Beagle bot required building an expansion board. Some requirements for expansion board: Wide […]
Evil Mad Scientist Lenore has posted a project to zombify a freebie plushie pony from Wells Fargo. Watch Mollie the pretty pony be transformed into MAULIE, the evil zombie pony who eats children that don’t eat their vegetables (okay, I made that last bit up). When I was at the Steampunk Convention last November, I […]
Jeff, he of the mightyOhm, asks: Have you ever wondered why standard 5% resistors have strange values, like 330 and 470 Ohms, instead of nice round numbers like 300 or 500 Ohms? It turns out that standard resistor values form a preferred number series defined by the EIA. 5% values are part of a standard […]
Matt of Liquidware brings us the elegant and able-bodied open source Illuminato – an Arduino compatible featuring 42 I/O pins, Atmega645 (2x code space of ATmega168) and chic white LED backlighting – Great standout details on the board such as the side-mounted reset switch and symmetrical layout in black/gold. More videos, info, and insight to […]
This month’s Handmade Music event is shaping up to be a truly awesome hands-on showcase of sound maker bliss. Check out what’ll be on hand – Bizarre sonic objects made from dismembered mannequin torsos and legs, transformed into a Theremin and maracas Mouse & the Billionaire’s Gestural controllers, made with wood and 3D printers, shaping […]
This year, for the annual gadget Bacchanal known as CES (the Consumer Electronics Show), we did something a little different — we took a MAKEcation! From the sidelines, we covered a few things that weren’t being covered, and some things through a uniquely MAKE lens. Here’s our wrap-up. If you saw tech, at the actual […]
