When I found out that Jesse and Nate make Rube Goldberg style contraptions, I challenged them to come up to my family’s nature preserveand make a contraption out of sticks, stones, and twine. We gathered up on Whidbey and for a weekend messed around in the woods during the day and roasted marshmallows on the […]
David Schilling and Gus Jansson started up SMART which stands for Seattle Mindstorms And Robotic Techies and they’ve got a great community of lego robotic enthusiasts. I met up with them at the Seattle Dorkbot where I had a chance to interview them. They work with other lego robotic folks in the Seattle area to […]
This site takes a web pages and turns it into a MIDI you can listen to – [via] Link. Here’s what MAKE sounds like – Link (MID). I then imported the MIDI file to GarageBand – not a bad way to make music for soundtracks, games or whatever else. Here’s the MP3 – Link (MP3).
WSJ article on our pal Bunnie and poking at the Xbox360 – “Videogame fans braved long lines last fall to be among the first to buy Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 player. Andrew Huang got one so he could be among the first to tear it apart. The remains of Mr. Huang’s Xbox 360 are now […]
John writes – “The goal was to make a set of humbucking pickups for an es175 jazz electric style guitar that I have just about finished. Since it isn’t a heavy metal guitar that I was shooting for I wanted some pickups that were a bit milder and cleaner then the Super Distortion Pickups. […] […]
Luke Luck writes – “Here’s a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you’ve got lying around. In the Tesla Turbine, air, steam, oil, or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. The fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted through ventilation ports near the center […]
The pr0fess0r is cranking away on his automatic cat feeder and waterer, the latest – solving how to get the correct amount of food dispensed – Link. Related: Automatic Cat Feeder/Waterer – Link. VCR Cat Feeder. Liberate a motor from an old VHS deck, attach it to a food chopper, and program the deck’s recording […]
