When 18-year-old Honduran maker Luis Cruz met a quadriplegic high school classmate and learned about the challenges he and other folks with disabilities face in the light of expensive assistive communication technologies, he was inspired to devise a solution. What Luis came up with is the Eyeboard: an inexpensive yet reliable human-computer interface that detects […]
Our podcast interview this week is with William Gurstelle. He’s a contributing editor to MAKE and his books include Backyard Ballistics, Adventures from the Technology Underground, and Absinthe and Flamethrowers.
Biomechanical engineer Robert Armiger and surgical roboticist Carol Reiley, both of Johns Hopkins University, created Air Guitar Hero as a fun rehabilitation exercise for people with amputations. The original version they made was a bit costly, but they wrote up a less expensive DIY version, and shared their build instructions with us on the pages […]
Two Make: Projects teach the Tiny Wanderer robot (from MAKE Volume 29) new tricks: Bump sensor navigation and light-avoiding “Moth” behavior.
Meet Simon Jansen, a software engineer by trade who likes building all manner of odd inventions and restoring old cars in his spare time. In MAKE Volume 29, Simon wrote about making the Better Nerf Gun, a metal foam-dart gun that blows away the standard-issue plastic Nerf gun.
Drinking our tea in cozy confidence, we plugged the production samples into Arduino, put the unit on our fingertip, and casually looked at the screen for the Processing sketch to perfectly render our heartbeat. [Cue first spit-take.]
Our maker this week is Carol Reiley a surgical roboticist at Intuitive Surgical and the founder of Tinker Belle Labs. Carol’s on the cover of the current issue of MAKE, Volume 29, and is the co-author of two how-to projects in this issue.
