The really cool thing about the maker featured in this YouTube video is that his home automation system is cobbled together from salvaged components and bits of junk. My advice is to ignore the insipid voice-over and fast-forward to 0:23, where the good stuff starts. Via AfriGadget.
This Saturday, July 11, 2009, is the next meeting of Dorkbot Southern California: ***** 1:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 Here’s the line-up of speakers: Heather Knight Previously with the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, Heather is a Social Roboticist who works at […]
Erica points out this early 80’s profile of artist/engineer Remo Saraceni on Omni Television. You’re likely familiar with at least one of Saraceni’s playful inventions – he created the “Walking Piano” played by Tom Hanks in Big, plus a bunch of other fun pieces of tech.
I love these flies, CNC’d from trash CDs and DVDs. Sent to us by Jacek Tomasiak from Poland. The flies were posted on the Polish CNC Forums by one of their members. The attachment on the post is the DXF files, if you care to cut your own. Mucha
Set your DVRs, VCR cat feeders, and Arduino-controlled doggie dish dispensers for 10:30pm tonight. The Discovery Science Channel will be running a segment about Maker Faire on their Brink program. Brink: Science Channel
Francesco Fondi, of the Italian site Hobby Media, sent us a link to a story about Giulio B, an Italian drug trafficker jailed in Spain, who attempted a prison break using this small dirigible. The site’s in Italian, but I gather the R/C craft was supposed to fly into the prison, with the payload of […]
After a fourth of July BBQ, I was tuning around on the radio and made contact with Vince, K4AOC (operating as K2L) the 13 Colonies Special Event station in South Carolina. July 1- July 5th was the 13 Colonies 4th of July Special Event during which all thirteen original colonies were on the air with […]
