Maker Faire Loves Robots
Maker Faire loves robots. Don’t you? Here are just a fraction of the robotic exhibits, presenters and performers at World Maker Faire 2013. Robots for kids! Aerial Drones, Robotic Art, Humanoid Robots, and more.
Drones & Vehicles
How-To: Make A Paper Airplane Fly Forever
Take your paper airplane skills up a notch with this incredible trick to make your airplane fly forever using the heat of an electric stove!
Crochet Bicycle Skirt Guard
Lorna Watt of Knits for Life shared this attractive and effective Crochet Bicycle Skirt Guard.
MapperBot Charts a Simulated Asteroid at World Maker Faire
Gotham Laboratories will be at World Maker Faire next month to show off MapperBot, a drone that demonstrates mapping an asteroid with a plenoptic camera, which they have mounted on a quadcopter which will circumnavigate a 2-3 meter asteroid mockup and map the surface details in real time.
Crowdfunding Sympathy for the Scouts
In Ken’s column this week, he unveils the Boy Scouts/Hacker Scouts poll results, catches up with Pedalusion, gives the crowdfunding report, and more!
Bicycle-Powered Treehouse Elevator
Ethan Schlussler of Sandpoint, Idaho, built this clever bicycle-powered treehouse elevator to make it easier to reach his nearly 30-foot-high treehouse. “It was originally a 20-something speed bicycle, but first gear wasn’t slow enough, so I cut the large sprocket off the front, and welded it on the rear to get a lower gear. I also had to do away with the de-railers and make a new chain tensioner,” he writes.
DIY toy car Drone Featured at World Maker Faire
This toy car kit, which the creators call the RoboTech SuperCar, will be demonstrated at World Maker Faire next month. It’s Arduino powered with RGB LED headlights and tail lights, an ultrasonic sensor, and a 24-pin RC bus that interfaces with RasPi, Teensy, or any other microcontroller.
