Mystery Electronic Switches
Only you know how to make this nifty magic gadget light up.
Technology
Gregory Charvat’s Radar Dissertation Now Online
Greg Charvat earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2007, and his dissertation described a low-power radar imaging system (PDF download). Now Dr. Charvat has made his dissertation available for anyone to download. This system uses the combination of a spatially diverse antenna array, a high sensitivity range-gated frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system, and […]
BEND: A Circuit Bending Documentary
If you’re only somewhat aware of what circuit bending is–or have no idea!–be sure to watch BEND: Short documentary on circuit bending created by Greg and Tim Andresen of Greater Sirens with Nick Petterson and Thomas McColskey for one of their classes at Expression College. It features interviews with Dmitri SFC, Derek Sajbel (a.k.a. Dr. […]
How-To: LED IKEA Lantern Hack
Toss the candles and turn a regular tea light lantern into a charming—and surprisingly bright—LED version with this IKEA lantern hack!
Webcast: How to Get a Raspberry Pi Up and Running
This Wednesday, Shawn Wallace and I will be hosting an O’Reilly webcast about the basics of how to get a Raspberry Pi up and running. It’s a free webcast, but you do have to register to attend. If you can’t make it to the webcast, check out our book, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, which […]
Visiting a Motor Factory in Shenzhen
MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able to go to that factory. Once we arrived at the factory, […]
Magic Eye Audio Spectrum Display
Sylvain, AKA MicroSyl, wanted to build an audio spectrum display using old “magic eye” vacuum tubes: After doing some project with vintage tube I got the idea of doing an audio spectrum display with “magic eyes tube” and driving those with an AVR MCU with Fast Fourier Transform. The enclosure is sweet too! [via Embedded […]