World Maker Faire New York is on all this weekend in beautiful Corona, Queens. We love to see the makers, and we love to see our readers, and we love to see folks who have never been fall in love with the faire and the maker experience.
The team here at MAKE HQ has built a list of the makers we know, and think deserve your attention.
It’s a great weekend for catching up on things we’re making. I tweeted out a call on the MAKE twitter handle, and folks seny along these pictures of the projects they’re working on.
Bored of your favorite Twitter client ? No problem, here’s the solution ! In this post we are going to explain how to control the awesome WowWee Robosapien with a wirelessly connected Arduino to trigger some actions on the robot through a specific Twitter hashtag.
Whiskey Tango Hotel’s Hand of Pi is a robot hand that gestures (sometimes rudely) when a tweet is sent to @OurCatDoor that contains certain keywords. It’s all controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Looks like this is one of the entries in our Raspberry Pi Design Contest which closed last night…
Drew Fustini recently got his hands on an AlaMode and used it display tweets from his Raspberry Pi to an 2.8″ TFT LCD Touchscreen Shield. The AlaMode and shield are connected to the Raspberry Pi which runs the Arduino IDE and a bit of Python code to make it all happen.
Fellow ITP student William Lindmeier created a project I like a lot called Magpi Radio: Magpi Radio uses text-to-speech to read tweets coming in from various channels. Volume and power are controlled by the knob on the left. Channels can be selected by turning the knob on the right. As you click through channels, the […]
