iPad Dry Erase Template
Building a tablet app? Then you’ll dig this cool iPad Dry Erase Board from Design Commission. It even comes with a couple of pens and a handy list of icons on the back.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Check Out the Improved Makezine.com Homepage
On Monday AM, we rolled out a few changes to the stage.makezine.com homepage. If you’re used to coming to the site through blog.stage.makezine.com, you might want to start coming in through the front door. Every day, we’ll be updating the three-image gallery at the top with links to popular posts, projects, special features, contests, and […]
AutoCAD WS now on Android
Do you ever wish you could take your CAD drawings with you wherever you went? With the release of AutoCAD WS for Android, your chances of accomplishing this feat have increased dramatically as Autodesk brings this mobile version of their venerable CAD software in sync with the iOS version.
iPhone 4 3D Scanner
Using projected light from four different directions, an app called Trimensional, from Georgia Tech researcher Grant Schindler, will assemble a 3D scan using an iPhone 4’s built-in camera. Once you’ve captured a desirable visage you can optionally memorialize said countenance by outputting a watertight file and sending it to your favorite 3D printer.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Personalized Cotton Candy Maker
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user usopyon and friends created this internet-enabled cotton candy machine. It consists of an Arduino-powered colored sugar mixer, which dispenses measured amounts of pink, green, and blue sugar to create a uniquely colored puff of cotton candy for each user. Yum!
Make: Projects – Micro FM Transmitter
This transmitter is commonly credited to Japanese multimedia artist Tetsuo Kogawa. It takes audio input through a 1/4? phono jack and, constructed as shown, without the optional antenna connections, will broadcast an FM radio signal about 30 feet.
This is the standard model of Mr. Kogawa’s simplest FM transmitter, which is slightly more complex than his most basic design in that it includes a trim capacitor to adjust the transmitting frequency. It can be powered by a 9V battery and uses a hand-turned copper coil.
