Alphonse, Adam, Jon, and Dan made a Nintendo Wiimote controlled robot arm – Video of a MiniMover 5 robot arm controlled by a Nintendo Wiimote. The arm and control algorithm was our semester project in an Electromechanical design class in the University of Michigan’s Mechanical Engineering department. The MiniMover 5 is an educational robot from […]
We’ve added another one of our kits to our MAKE instructables group – Originally designed for the Maker Faire by Grand Idea Studio, the “Build Your Own Electronic Game Kit” is a custom-created kit intended to introduce you to the world of electronics and soldering. When successfully assembled, the kit becomes a version of the […]
Sean writes – I saw the post on Mobius Chess, and thought I’d point you towards Schrödinger’s Pawn, a chess variant based on quantum mechanics. This is another game that would be challenging to build in the real world (though possible, with a couple of web cams and a video mixer). DD37: Schrödinger’s pawn – […]
This Mobius chess puzzle might be fun to (physically) make – This chess board is on a Mobius strip. The length is infinite (and wraps) but the width is only four squares. There are no pieces on the hidden sides. Some of the pieces are hard to read: the White Queen is on top, the […]
Ben Heckendorn’s has been making amazing portable console systems (like the VCSp) for 7 years, check out post about this and the rest of his work – It was 7 years ago (ish) that I completed my first video game portable – the original VCSp. How do I know this? Well I had it sitting […]
From The Amazing Rolo: This weekend I finished the Wii Loop Machine software that I started a few weeks ago. It’s a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time. It’s now ready for download as a standalone application…if you have a Mac with OSX (10.4.8 or […]
Alex writes – I have always found it a challenge to make things at virtually no hardware cost, using old parts in innovative combinations. Whilst such projects are usually quite time consuming, they do give you the pleasure of “being independent of the industry” and their picture of the state of the art of technology. […]
