Do Not Build This Knife-Wielding Chopping Machine
Simone Giertz designed an incredibly dangerous automatic food-chopping machine using a kitchen knife and servo motors.
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XLR8 Project Blends FPGA Speed with Arduino Coding
The XLR8 is an FPGA based board that looks and feels like an Arduino Uno. But not all is what it seems on the surface.
Built from Scrap: This CNC Machine Was Made for $160
German Maker, Norbert Heinz, shows how to create a homemade CNC mill using inexpensive chipboard and repurposed computer CD drives.
Let This Helmet with a Robot Arm (Sorta) Brush Your Teeth
Maker Simone Giertz creates a ridiculous, impractical, yet awesome motorized helmet that brushes her teeth. Sorta.
Giant Fog-Breathing Robotic Crow Shoots Lasers
Artist David Cranmer’s “Stakcgrox” is a 3.5 meter tall robotic crow with a rotating head and glowing eyes that shoot lasers.
Adorable Robot Built Around a Credit Card Body
If you’re worried about your credit card “walking off,” now there’s another explanation than simple theft. If you’re the creator of this credit card robot, it can literally walk off by itself. On the other hand, it looks like it would be very hard to use in a reader, so that might be a deterrent […]
How To: Hocus Pocus Book Replica
Remember the spell book from Hocus Pocus with the creepy moving eyeball? Since it is the season of Halloween-movie-replica-prop-making, I’ve found a great DIY tutorial that covers the steps required to make a pretty accurate copy! This tutorial doesn’t include how to make the eyeball actually move, but I would love to see someone hack […]
