3D Printed UAV Wing with Printed Electronics
A collaboration between Stratasys and Optomec, Inc. has produced the first 3D printed UAV with surface printed electronics.
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Foot-Steered Electric Scooter
Love this fun little scooter that MITERS and GT Invention Studio members built over spring break. [Charles via Adafruit]
Homebuilt PCB Drill Press
reboots used a Micromot 50 rotary tool and a modified rack from a hamfest to build a very precise drill press for his homemade PCBs. Mounting the motor was tricky. The nose of the Micromot is a machined steel collar, but the body is ABS plastic with perceptible dimensional variance. If the motor was not […]
Laser Oscilloscope Wraps up Year of Hacks
Congrats to MAKE pal Dino Segovis, who just published the 52nd and final project in his one-year Hack a Week series: This cool laser “oscillograph” that modulates an audio input across the beam from a green laser pointer using a linear actuator recovered from a junk hard drive. A spinning mirror provides the time element.
Origami CD Case
Do you find yourself always hunting around for a case to protect that DVD you just burned for a friend? Next time, try folding up this simple origami case from a standard letter-sized sheet of paper.
An AR Desktop Behind a Clear LCD
Stevie Bathiche, director of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, introduces this video from GeekWire by explaining that “it looks like we just took an LCD and took the backlight off, but that’s actually not true. There’s actually been a lot of work that Samsung has done to improve the transmission quality of this display.” Be that as it may…
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…