How-To: Building a Raspberry Pi WiFi Controlled Car
Why buy a toy store RC car when you can make your own!
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Printing On The Floor With A Roomba
This printing robot allows one to print on the floor using an iRobot Create combined with an old Epson Inkjet printer. The Roomba allows for forward motion, while a carefully stripped-down printer allows for horizontal motion and something to attach the printing device to. As described, this allows “the robot to print a virtually unlimited […]
Dronecode: Linux Foundation, 3D Robotics Create Open-Source UAV Software Platform
A new initiative will put open-source drone software under one unified platform managed by the Linux Foundation.
Sign Plus Plus at the Atlanta Maker Faire
At the Atlanta Maker Faire on October fourth, I was happy to meet Payam Ghobadpour and Madeleyne Vaca who were showing off a prototype sign language translation glove called the Sign plus plus. They, along with Kelley Sheffield abd Andrew Thieck came up with this device at a HackGT hackathon event. The glove is powered […]
Julia Christensen’s Upcycled iPhone Art Project
Media artist Julia Christensen is interested in what happens to “techy trash” like old phones when we’re done with them, so she made a work called BURNOUTS from upcycled iPhones.
How To: Hocus Pocus Book Replica
Remember the spell book from Hocus Pocus with the creepy moving eyeball? Since it is the season of Halloween-movie-replica-prop-making, I’ve found a great DIY tutorial that covers the steps required to make a pretty accurate copy! This tutorial doesn’t include how to make the eyeball actually move, but I would love to see someone hack […]
Animating A Halloween Door Knocker with Digispark
A software engineer turns a cheap $5 Halloween decoration into an animated nightmare.
A Digispark development board controls the LED eyes and knocker actuator for haunting effects.