MAKE is going to be at Greener Gadgets later this week. One of the kits we will have on display at the show is the Fuel Cell Car & Experiment Kit by Thames & Kosmos. It looks like a really well made kit that includes everything you need to get started with fuel cell technology. […]
Go is hard to play while traveling; the pieces slide all around, and the board is too big to maneuver, but you can play on any size board really, so instructables user Roger-X made this travel go set using cardboard, paper, and matchsticks. Holes in the board hold the matchsticks in place while playing.
This might be just the thing for a robotics project cancelled on account of – “expensive”. Professor Mason created a quadrature encoder by fitting a motor with 2 inexpensive hall-effect sensors and a small magnet – In this application, two sensors are attached 90 degrees out of phase around the motor. A small permanent magnet […]
Magnify your workbench… William Grill needed a better view of his worktable for prototyping. He was using a three-times lighted lens mounted on his workbench, but it wasn’t enough for working on small gadgets. So he created a gadget for gadget prototyping — a monitor that can display his work at 12-times scale on his […]
In response to the scratch-built kid racer piece I blogged about, Nik Schulz sent us a link to this site celebrating CycleKarts. CycleKarting? Who knew? I love that you’re not allow to buy one. To race it, you have to build it. This is where we get to introduce everyone to the inordinately fun world […]
This Instructable details how to make a simple plastic mold injection tool for creating artificial fishing lures out of a hot melt glue gun. How to make artificial fishing bait for little to no $
I love this Arduino (mini) wristwatch via Popgadget.
