camSlider Open Source Motion Control Slider
German maker Stefan Kohler built the camSlider motion control slider to take incredible panning stop motion animations and motion control video. The project is open sourced and available on his website.
DIY Projects
Atlanta Maker Alliene Bouchard
A few weeks have passed since the Atlanta Mini Maker Faire 2011 and I’ve been enjoying some follow-up visits with some of the many makers I met at the event. Time was short during the one-day fair, so I didn’t get to visit much with Alliene Bouchard, an Atlanta-based maker. Alliene (pronounced Ollie-yen) impressed me […]
DIY Tyvek Mailer Stuff Sack
Check out this cheap and easy way to create a durable stuff sack for hiking or camping out of a Tyvek mailer, a length of paracord, and some dental floss.
How-To: Playful Puppy Robot
Make: Projects community member and winner of the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest, OddBot, recently shared a new project build with us in the form of a Playful Puppy Robot. How playful? You be the judge: OddBot shows you how to build the puppy bot, which is Arduino compatible and requires no soldering. The sample […]
How-To: Speed Vest for Night Cycling
If car users knew how fast cyclists were moving, would they be more willing to share the road? That’s the question posed by Mykle Hansen in the intro to his Speed Vest project from MAKE Volume 19. Bicyclists receive a lot of honk-based grief from car drivers who perceive them as slow and in the […]
DIY Sous Vide: Cook Perfect Steaks with Arduino Electronics at BioCurious!
Come one, come all, science geeks, food lovers, Arduino hackers. Build a magical box with Arduino-inspired technology that will control the temperature of an appliance you hack, up to 0.1 degrees accuracy. October 15th at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale!
1,000-Piece Popsicle Stick Bomb
Looks like a great parent-child project. It’s not in danger of breaking any records, but a fun project nonetheless. [Via @ItsColossal]