Make Subscriber Dave Vondle let us know about this great project he just posted. He started with a rear projection TV, turned it into a laser light plane-based multi-touch screen, and wrote it up on the IDEO Labs Blog: Continuing our multi-touch research, we’ve been working on turning an off-the-shelf rear projection TV into a […]
Dave’s Coffee in Charlestown, RI, has just shared an old-school coffee roasting technique: Straight from the mountains of Ecuador, we here at Dave’s Coffee recently came across a very old school way of roasting coffee beans…right on the griddle. They call it, “La Esencia.” With a bad ass name like that, how could you go […]
Design it, build it, test it, fly it In your classroom, students may be working with concepts like aerodynamics and the Design Process. Many kids use the CO2 dragster as a way of exploring these ideas. In MAKE: Volume 15 and MAKE: Volume 16, we have a couple of projects that can really help students […]
Gakken’s Aurorarium is a fun and easy to build LED light kit available in the Maker Shed. It would be a great first-time project to make with your kids. You don’t even need any tools to build the Aurorarium. All you need are (4) AA batteries and a little time for assembly. Check out all […]
ladyada writes-… I remember seeing a commercial for the “Cricut†and thinking “wow, this is fablab level equipment!†Instructables member opendous has done inspring work here, by turning a ’sticker machine’ into a professional mylar solderpaste stencil cutter that can do TQFP-scale. You can cut mylar stencils on a laser cutter but I find it […]
Nora & Torvald – sensor-controlled digital media in custom-designed pieces of furniture… ‘Nora & Torvald’ – By rootoftwo (John Marshall and Cezanne Charles). Birch plywood, Arduino micro-controllers, sensors, speakers, audio. ‘Nora & Torvald’ embeds sensor-controlled digital media in custom-designed pieces of furniture. The starting point of this work is a re-reading of Henrik Ibsen’s play […]
Nitro writes – A fairly in-depth technical report by the security researchers at TippingPoint was released on how to reverse engineer the proprietary protocol for controlling a USB missile-launching toy system. They develop an iPhone application to control the device. ‘The hardware is coupled with a simple GUI controller written in Delphi (MissileLauncher.exe) and a […]
