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Blinking an LED and transmitting text to a serial terminal is not the most exciting thing in the world, but it's very cool to breathe life into a balky computer, even at the most basic level. Also, I have worked with enough development tools to know that it can be a lot of work going ...
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Sparkfun is giving away things for free on January 7!
You can blame it on Chris Anderson's book Free. After reading his book, I started kicking around the idea of what we can do that's 'free'. Sure, we have free bits (open-source hardware designs, available code, etc.), but we don't have ...
Green Living
I am a sucker for a good SketchUp exploded view (although I think the screws shown in this one just have to be wrong). This plan comes from the usbddr project . From the readme file:
usbddr is firmware for the Atmel ATMega8 which implements a usb controller ("dance pad") for games ...
Green Living
Charles Pax is working on a new MakerBot extruder he's aptly calling the Paxtruder. It makes it super easy to change out the plastic filament, and can even be butted up against another one of itself for potential support material extrusion one day. Check out the plans on ...
Green Living
The holiday season is a great time of year, especially for kids! This year I came up with a list of products that will inspire your children, and let you in on the fun too! Many of these recommendations were inspired by my own childhood. I certainly made a lot of kits growing up, and I've ...
Green Living
George Will
From the MAKE Flickr pool
Flickr member Giant Eye created a handcuff mechanism with his Makerbot Cupcake CNC - 3d printers are incredibly boss, cool, fantastic, and other words that mean they make me tingle. I designed these handcuffs (okay I've only printed one out at the moment) ...
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I'm not sure if this isn't more rightly called "paper sculpture" than origami. True it uses only one sheet of paper and there are no cuts, but, well...watch the video and you'll see what I mean. Besides getting to see the mushrooms themselves, which are almost photo-realistic, it's worth ...
Green Living
A refreshingly different kind of mash-up - "We Are All Connected" was made from sampling Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The History Channel's Universe series, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The ...
Green Living
With so much cool stuff popping up these days you notice when something truly draws awe. Qi Pan , a PhD candidate at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University , has developed a novel approach to capturing 3D objects with a standard webcam. Called ProFORMA , Pan's ...
Green Living
I planned on writing an entry about burning bootloaders and updating the firmware, but I just realized my kit comes ready to go! Yay! This is a major advantage to purchasing the Generation 3 Electronics kit. If you're making you own boards, be sure to check out these detailed instructions ...
Green Living
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Tasering just isn't for 10 year olds ,
a UK man invented a lobster zapper that some
feel is more humane than just tossing them in boiling water. I would like to try this electric lobster they speak of. Looking at the photo, it looks like two big ...
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Man invents electric lobster taser
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Wow, this is interesting... Hobbymedia writes -
Yesterday I went to Tokyo MAKE Meeting 04 with Gianluca Martino: a member of the Arduino team. He has been super popular and he really appreciated the Japanese Arduino scene. During the show Gakken displayed the prototype of the JAPANINO ...
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There are woodcarvers, and then there's Gary Tatman, of Glen Burnie, Maryland. Gary explains his incredible work on Hemmings Auto Blog:
You're correct in your assumptions- these carvings start out as a block. I use the Internet motorsports archives to obtain enough photos of the ...
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What could be cooler than pop-up books dioramas? How about if they were life-sized? That's exactly what designers Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner have created with their pop-up office . Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the furniture is strong enough to use, but what fun! [via ...
Green Living
"Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models"
Interesting quote from today's big education announcement ( MAKE is part of it! ). Reminds of when Dean Kamen says "We are what we celebrate"...
Mr. Obama said academics should be receiving an athletic-like focus. And as he presented a set of initiatives intended to improve the science ...
Green Living
I've been working on microscope sets for Maker Shed. Until now, the only microscope set the Shed carried was the Thames & Kosmos TK2 . That's a decent set, at under $100, but it's still a toy. We wanted some better sets, so I put together three, which we imaginatively named the Basic ...
Green Living
The guys at Lumenlab used one of their RoBLOKS 3D deposition printers to print white ink on a black T-shirt.
RoBLOKS 3DP **ALPHA**, 3D deposition printing; fun with goo!
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An update... Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC . Every time we have a post about the LHC the crazy comes out of the woodwork proclaiming the world is going to end if the machine is operational, it didn't, so let's call a bonkers truce, ok? :)
Today the LHC ...
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Our own Brookelyn spotted this awesome lightbulb terrarium over on Instructables . [via CRAFT ]
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What would you do if you want a jigsaw puzzle with your significant other's mug on it? The standard method would be to have a custom puzzle printed up that features their photo, however Mark Setteducati and Ken Knowlton have come up with a better way: Jicazu . Using 300 generic pieces of ...
