Wired Gadget Lab has a piece, as a teaser about their attendance at Maker Faire, about Steve Chamberlin’s home-wound 8-bit, chess-playing CPU made by wire-wrapping some 50 basic logic chips. Quoting Steve on the benefits of undertaking this project: Computers can seem like complete black boxes. We understand what they do, but not how they […]
Coupla old dudes built a three-wheeled unmanned vehicle for pulling a person controlling the rig from rollerblades, via push-pull rod steering. Feng-GUI Research – The Red Sea Mobile
I’m a huge fan of business cards that DO stuff, that you can punch out, fold into usable tools or make into monitor pets, desktop siege weapons, cards that you can use in a circuit, cards that contain data. So, I’m over the moon about ladyada’s new card, a laser-cut, punch-out “spirograph” art-machine. Maybe if […]
Last Friday, we had a great show with Ken Gracey of Parallax and Jeff Ledger of the Parallax forums, the fellow organizing the upcoming all-night Unofficial Propeller Expos. The first one, Expo West, is happening on June 27-28, 2009, at Parallax HQ, in Rocklin, CA. Expo North East is happening on August 22, in Norwalk, […]
Bre writes: We got ABS into the MakerBot store (store.makerbot.com) and Marius and Philip of the Whatever Lab in Vienna were visiting and they set up the MakerBot named Martha Vader to sing the imperial march and make a Darth Vader Head. The force is strong with this one. Bre will be at Maker Faire […]
What we can learn from a Depression-era homesteading couple.
The folks at TheWorkshop.Ca turned an old push mower, a leaf blower, a galvanized tank, and some concrete, ceramic filler, and aluminum dross into a small, mobile forge. Knife-Making / Blacksmithing /Alloy Melting – Forge/Furnace
