Mikey’s HOW TO – iRobot dead cell battery fix… I have three iRobots which help clean our house. I bought them about two years ago. As the one year warranty was coming up I called iRobot and asked them to help with various issues. They basically replaced all three of them. Now that I am […]
Each week we all hear stories about the “good ole’ days”of science, engineering and chemistry – decades ago kids had chemistry sets, made rockets, we invested in science everywhere – we were heading to the moon. We can’t live in the past though – only build on it, the best days of science are not […]
This is an interesting DC motor controller that uses a MOSFET H-Bridge with AVR ATmega8 micro controller. This looks like a nice start to powering your next robot project. Here is a very simple project of controlling a small DC-motor (taken from an old personal cassette player) with ATmega8. The ATmega8 is having three PWM […]
Huge POV (Persistence of vision) via Hackaday. You can of course make your own version, maybe a little less “dangerous” using the POV kit we have in the Maker Shed store – propeller not included.
Make your own hot sauce… via Lifehacker. Makers, have a recipe? Post up in the comments! Kits For The Holidays (hot sauce) – MAKE 04.
Cyber writes – Some enterprising folks over at Google have collaborated via Google Documents to create holiday art using cells in a spreadsheet as the pixels. A time delay video was taken and is available over at YouTube and the result is pretty spectacular. More info on how they did this is available behind the […]
Cousteau and the undersea world. Cameron and Titanic. And now, Joe Reinhardt and Mike Fields and the depths of Lake Moraine in upstate New York. Every summer, Reinhardt and brother-in-law Fields tackle a new DIY project at the family’s lakeside camp. In 2005, the pair built their own underwater ROV (remote observation vehicle) with two […]
