Discover the inner workings of a mortise and cylinder lock, first developed by the Egyptians over 4000 years ago, with the Beginners Lock-Picking Blend by TOOOL (The Open Organization Of Lock-pickers). Each set contains 8 hand-picked tools that will get you on your way to opening a variety of different locks.
Using special designed and machined grippers, this prototype ‘bot from researchers Matthew Journee, XiaoQi Chen, James Robertson, Mark Jermy, and Mathieu Sellier can climb wooden, metal, and cloth surfaces with ease. Rough textures and small gaps in the substrate apparently present no problem, and the video includes impressive footage of the machine dragging an additional half-kilo weight up a wooden door and rolling around upside-down on a ceiling made of glass.
Honduran teenager Luis Cruz, whose low-cost homebrew embedded video game system was featured in MAKE Vol 23, wrote in to let us know about his most recent project, a similarly low-cost prototype electrooculography (EOG) system, based on the ATmega328P, that allows people with motor disabilities to write text on a screen using only eye movements.
I think it’s safe to describe Ryan Palser as a “replica video game prop master” at this point. Those of you who enjoyed his fantastic Fallout 3 replica weapons last summer will probably also enjoy his exquisitely crafted Portal turret replica. going on.
There are many, many phone mounts out there. This Kickstarter project called The Oona, seems more versatile than most. The designers set out to solve these use cases and more: • A GPS on the windshield of your car • A reference device on a white board or Refrigerator • The ability to mount your […]
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Nineteen feet tall. Twelve feet in diameter. “The F-1 is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever put into service. Manufactured by Rocketdyne, five F-1 engines were used in the first stage of each Saturn V rocket, each generating 1.5 million pounds-force of thrust—more than all three Space Shuttle main engines combined.”
