Make: Projects – Tiny Wanderer Bump Sensor and “Moth” Behavior
Two Make: Projects teach the Tiny Wanderer robot (from MAKE Volume 29) new tricks: Bump sensor navigation and light-avoiding “Moth” behavior.
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Meet the Makers, MAKE Volume 29: Simon Jansen’s Nerf Gun
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.
Reel Crime: The Pulse Sensor Counterfeit LEDs Story
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.]
Make: Talk 005 – Carol Reiley, Surgical Roboticist
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.
Build a Better Nerf Gun
hre There was no shortage of Nerf guns and other toy weapons in Simon Jansen’s geek-filled office, but none of them impressed Simon, so like any good maker would do, he decided to build a better Nerf gun himself. His coworker Lester had brought in the Nerf Maverick, and though he could load multiple darts, […]
Making More Makers (and Why It Matters)
In the lead-up to tomorrow’s Dale Dougherty/MAKE segment on “The Next List” program (Sunday, 2pm EST), CNN has posted an article by Dale entitled How to Make More ‘Makers’ – and Why It Matters.
Make: Talk 004 – Steve Lodefink, Broad-Spectrum Hobbyist
On this week’s Make: Talk podcast, Mark talks with inveterate tinkerer and “broad-spectrum hobbyist” Steve Lodefink about his sunburst guitar project from MAKE Volume 29, his atomic ball clock, bottle rockets and other projects.
