The buzzer on a washer or dryer may be OK for most people, but what if you would like something a little more versatile to tell you when your laundry is done? Here’s an interesting solution involving an Arduino Yún that sends a text message when the washer or dryer is done. Rather than hacking […]
Pets are people too. If corporations can be labeled as people then why can’t our pets? Regardless, when it comes to our pets, we often spoil them with lavish gifts to show our affections. Makers on the other hand tend to build projects that help with everything from feeding tasks to keeping track of […]
If you’re tired of folding up a piece of paper into a triangle “ball,” Here’s another interesting idea for papercraft football, just in time for bowl season! This game looks to be a combination of electric football, where plastic “players” are moved around the vibrating playing surface, and a bristlebot, that moves with its own […]
If you’re in the Times Square, New York area, you owe it to yourself to visit the Times Square RadioShack today. They’ve got a room set up where you can look at a whole bunch of littleBits demos, and even make your own littleBits ornament that you can take home. Come in, pick up a […]
The Bottle Bit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582093084/the-bottle-bit See on Kickstarter Raax Robotic Linear Actuators https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668088607/raax-robotics-biomimetic-arm-with-modular-linear-a See on Kickstarter Zubot Transformers https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/821921289/zubot-tranformers See on Kickstarter Desktop Record Cutter See on Kickstarter Zano Drone https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torquing/zano-autonomous-intelligent-swarming-nano-drone See on Kickstarter Anura Pocketable Drone https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1364595768/anura-the-beginning-of-the-drone-era-for-the-masse See on Kickstarter
Note: This is an excerpt from Charles Platt’s newest book, The Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Volume 2, the second in his reference trilogy. Unlike the “Learning by Discovery” emphasis of Charles’ popular Make: Electronics and Make: More Electronics, the Encyclopedia series doesn’t have step-by-step instructions for experiments, but rather, is intended to pull together the […]
In partnership with Astronaut Tim Peake, UK Space, and the European Space Agency, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is sending their single board computers to the International Space Station in a program dubbed “Astro Pi.” Two Raspberry Pis will be sent to the ISS as part of Tim’s 6 month mission there and they’re inviting primary […]
