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Real-life Mario Kart with RFID-Tagged Special Items

Real-life Mario Kart with RFID-Tagged Special Items

The team at Waterloo Labs have heavily modded go-karts to play a game of Mariokart right on the race track!

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Servo Control Direct from Ableton Live

Servo Control Direct from Ableton Live

Sebastian Tomczak is able to control a servo directly from Ableton using a Teensy.

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Putting Projects in Motion with the 555 Timer IC

Putting Projects in Motion with the 555 Timer IC

Our latest project uses an array of parts to build three separate breadboard projects. Follow along as we put Projects in Motion, showing you how to control three different motor types with little more than a few components, wire, and a power source.

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Lightplot: Painting with Light in 3D Space

Lightplot: Painting with Light in 3D Space

I absolutely love Ben Cowell-Tomas’s Lightplot, a 3D light painting system. An animation is imported into his custom software which, in turn, drives a robotic arm to draw each frame with an LED in a 3D space.

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Drummerbot Makes Beats with Arduino

Drummerbot Makes Beats with Arduino

Using a web-based phone controller, Steffest controls an array of fourteen percussive instruments that are packed into a setup so tightly I can’t help but use the word “cute.” Despite the amount of instruments, the bot uses only eight servos, six of which play different instruments depending on which direction they swing towards.

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Ask MAKE: How to Simulate a Hatching Pigeon Egg

Ask MAKE: How to Simulate a Hatching Pigeon Egg

Rick asks: I race homing pigeons for a hobby. Motivating them to come home quickly is very important. I want to simulate the random chipping (clicking / egg movement) associated with a hatching egg. I already have plastic pigeon eggs that separate in half like a plastic Easter egg to put this device into, but I don’t know where to get the device. Any help would be appreciated.

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Score Coins Like Mario, But in Real Life

Score Coins Like Mario, But in Real Life

Instructable user Bruno created this fun real life Super Mario Bros. coin block, which pops out legal tender when it’s hit from the bottom. A 555 timer controls a servo motor to push the coins out of the top while an MP3 player plays the appropriate sound effect. Luckily for us, Bruno painstakingly detailed the […]

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