MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Check out our favorite pics from the Flickr pool this week. Featured is “Double Pendulum with LEDs” from Michael G. Devereux.
Technology
MicroSD Drive Poses As Mini Atari 810 Floppy
We owned an Atari 800, when I was a kid, and also owned the full-size original version of this drive. Rossum built this tiny simulacrum around an MicroSD drive that uses 8 GB cards. The case is a 3D print from Shapeways.
Make: Live Episode 08: Brewing Beer & Coffee (preview video)
https://cdn.stage.makezine.com/uploads/2011/05/xed1bk5mxjm Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep08 is all about brewing- beer and coffee. Make: Live 08 – Brewing Beer & Coffee Wednesday May 11th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at stage.makezine.com/live or on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/make-live Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets […]
In the Maker Shed: Retro Fun with the Monochron Clock Kit
The Monochron clock kit from the Maker Shed is a completely hackable, open source, clock kit that has a funky retro feel. It can be programmed to display several different clock “faces” or you can program you own.
The Latest in Hobby Robotics 05
More info: http://blog.stage.makezine.com/?p=92749
Links of interest:
Ignoblegnome, see his robots here:
http://letsmakerobots.com/user/5293/pages/robot
Frits Lyneborg, host:
http://letsmakerobots.com/user/4
Isotope’s Laydybug:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12924
Nuumio’s LadyBugBot clone:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/18506
Skaterj10′s Freedom555bot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26058
Tyberius’s Giger v4 Custom Humanoid Robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26127
The Latest in Hobby Robotics 06
In this weeks show, Rik and Frits are taking a look at one of the
oldest, yet still most popular simple and fun hobby robot projects:
“The Sumo”. Also in this show, a look at a very impressive piece of a
hand made full metal robot that looks like it is ready to explore
Mars.
Here is a list of links related to the show, including project pages
and YouTube clips:
Gary’s Nano Sumo
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22566
iRichiepoo’s Arduino Sumo Robot Prototype
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/24013
patrickmccabe and Gary’s Nano Sumo
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22568
E2TK’s ArduSumoto
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/18609
thesaxmachine’s Pyrostriker: Flame Shark
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26219
FingerTech Robotics’s FT Sumo
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12779
Solarbotics K SV Sumovore Mini Sumo Kit
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/3191
thesaxmachine’s Samm The Sumobot
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/16839
noise0’s Arduino Minisumo 01
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/5015
Antonb’s MTR – A planetary surface exploration rover
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/13080
Clip from Monkey vs. Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_QsCXm1vrk
The Latest in Hobby Robotics 04
Rik and Frits Lyneborg from http://letsmakerobots.com are back with an
update on what’s the coolest and latest on the Hobby Robotics scene.
Links to projects commented this week:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/21199
Patrickmccabe’s Lottery Simulation
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/21098
Geir Andersen’s Sea Rendering
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/4738
OddBot’s SplatBot MkII
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/13602
Mr g000ze’s Marblephone the Melody Machine
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/9433
Gareth’s ThunderBird 6 – Gold-Coin-Ring-BottleTop-Finder