Make: television presents: Tesla coil guitar – Steve Connor plays his tesla coil guitar amplifier RFID implant – Amal Graafstra opens locks and other devices with his hand-implanted RFID tag. LED fan sign – Kip Kedersha lights up the baseball bleachers with his homemade sign. Solar-powered Gondola – Reno Tondelli takes us on a spin […]
Simple yet effective, they come in a dizzying array of forms and materials. Vital to so many circuits for storage, timing, and filtration – the mighty capacitor! Download the m4v file or subscribe in iTunes In this installment of the MAKE presents series I explain – how to build a leyden jar, how the capacitor […]
This is the 3rd installment of my Aduino How-To Tuesdays. This week I am going to cover using another basic part, the potentiometer. I will also cover connecting a servo to the Arduino. Servos can be hard to control, but not with the Arduino! That’s just another reason why I love this little micro-controller. Subscribe […]
We journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to build lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Mister Jalopy reveals the hidden treasures of his “Compact Childhood Museum.” The Maker Channel segment features French fries shot from a spud gun, […]
Journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow branches. Dan places his eco-art in gullies and riverbanks to help reduce erosion and filter out sediment and farm fertilizers that can clog streams and suffocate spawning salmon. And see other manmade structures built to help fish return […]
John Park builds some lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Starting with a simple vibrabot made from a scrub brush, John assembles a solar junkbot and a slightly more complex beetlebot, which has paper clip ‘feelers’ attached to switches that allow it to respond to its environment. All it takes are a few common electronic components […]
Check out the details for the Mini Robots that John Park builds in the Maker Workshop. Building small bots is lots of fun, and this project provides an excellent intro to the low-tech, hacker-friendly world of BEAM robotics. Give these builds a try, and let us know how they turned out. We’d love to hear […]
