How-To: Carve a Stone Bowl
Want to make a gift to eternity? Nothing says forever quite like a hand-carved stone bowl.
DIY Projects
An Inexpensive Self-Balancing Robot
This self-balancing robot was designed and built by Kerry Wong and uses just a few ICs and some basic electronic components to get the job done. This project is definitely more up your alley if you’re interested in using discrete components rather than a microcontroller designed for prototyping, but the cost in doing it this way makes it attractive.
MicroRAX and Lego CNC
Jason Welch built this lovely CNC from MicroRAX t-slot beams with Lego bricks for the linear paths. See the video’s notes for some notes on sourcing the various components.
Homebuilt PCB Drill Press
reboots used a Micromot 50 rotary tool and a modified rack from a hamfest to build a very precise drill press for his homemade PCBs. Mounting the motor was tricky. The nose of the Micromot is a machined steel collar, but the body is ABS plastic with perceptible dimensional variance. If the motor was not […]
Mike Davey’s Wooden Wall Clock
Mike Davey is a maker we’re already familiar with through projects such as his incredibly detailed Turing Machine. This time he’s made a wooden wall clock, based on a design by Clayton Boyer, that almost looks like a long-legged creature with a little finger periodically pulling on the escapement.
Illuminated Boat Responds when Tilted
ITP student Tak Cheung casted this boat hull from fiberglass and epoxy resin and embedded a tilt responsive LED matrix within it.
In the Maker Shed: Netduino Plus
Are you familiar with .NET programming and want to get into microcontrollers? Have a look at the Netduino Plus available in the Maker Shed.