Open Music Labs on the ATmega328p ADC
Here’s an amazing article from Open Music Labs which provides an in-depth explanation of the inner workings of the ATmega328p ADC, and how to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it.
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PCB Sprayer Machine Helps You Etch Your Own
MIT student Christian Reed built this PCB Sprayer top etch his own boards: Plenty of people have published and built CNC machines. Even some 3D printers have started to pop up. Countless tools and devices for creating projects have been published on Instructables and across the internet. All of these devices use circuit boards and […]
In the Maker Shed: Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Did you forget about Valentine’s Day (like I did) and need a gift for that special someone? Here are some great ideas from the “Geek Chic” category of the Maker Shed!
Super-Simple Bat Glove
By now, hopefully, most of you will have seen Steve Hoeffer’s Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder project in MAKE Vol 29. MAKE regular David Prutchi recently saw it, and just sent me a link to this functionally similar device built by his daughter Hannah back in October. While Steve’s rangefinder goes “all out” with an embedded […]
Rotary Tumbler From Printer Parts
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this homemade jewelry tumbler from user Copper Pete, who built a custom plywood case and packed it with repurposed parts from a dead printer to create what appears to be a pretty nice little machine. I think the drum, itself, is a purpose-made component.
How-To: Dye Your MacBook
This guy dyed the major case parts of his factory-white MacBook bright orange using Rit fabric dye (and swapped out some other bits with a factory-black model) to create this cool custom color scheme. This method is known in the modding community, but “The Brain” has improved on its speed and consistency for glossy parts […]
Arduino-Powered Robot Balances on a Ball
We are Jeroen Waning, Brian Kosoris, Bahati Gitego, and Yuriy Psarev, and this is our senior design project here at Southern Polytechnic State University… (A) Ball-Bot is a robot (fully autonomous) that balances on a ball. In our case, it was a vertical aluminum structure approximately 3′ tall and balanced on a basketball. Our system […]