Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Steven Lemos, engineering intern For a school project in my AutoCAD class, my group and I decided to design and build a hovercraft. At first we were planning […]
Here’s a fun little thing to do with your 8 x 8 LED matrix and an Arduino MCU, create a classic game of Pong. Hey, I have an itty-bitty 8 x 8. Maybe I’ll make one of these. Bruno has the code on his site. Unfortunately, the site is in Portuguese. Ping Pong com Matriz […]
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.
Justin Huynh sent in this: At Maker Faire a couple weeks ago, Matt and I showed off the Open Source Gameboy and OpenBerry, and in the tradition of hacking together arduino versions of cool handheld gadgets, Matt put together the Open Source PSP with two player ping-pong on it. It’s got two inputshields and a […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member lovro made clever use of a portable game board/case as an ESD safe wallet
Now this is a train layout, 1,800 sqaure feet of it. It’s the pride and joy of the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society, Walnut Creek, CA, who’ve been at it since 1975. I like how the piece on Wired.com opens: Before SimCity — even before Dungeons and Dragons — back when “computer” was a job […]
Here is a collection of chess sets built from mechanical and electrical bits, mostly nuts, bolts, and washers of various flavors.
