Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Kris Magri, engineering intern How I designed Makey, Part III: The Ping sonar rangefinder and maiden voyage As we return to our robot design saga, making Makey the […]
For those that haven’t heard, LeafLabs’ Maple board is an Arduino-compatible microcontroller platform based on an STM32 ARM Cortex-M3 chip. The full feature list includes – Microcontroller: STM32 F103RB Clock Speed: 72 MHz Operating Voltage: 3.3V Input Voltage (recommended): 3.0V-18V Digital I/O Pins: 39 Analog Input Pins: 16 Flash Memory: 128 KB SRAM: 20KB 64 […]
The Transistor Clock from is made using only discrete components–194 transistors, 566 diodes, 400 resistors, 87 capacitors, and absolutely no integrated circuits. It’s available as an open-source kit from KABtronics. [via Hack a Day]
10 Sci-Fi Weapons that actually exist @ Wired’s Danger Room… Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the laser weapons, robots, sonic blasters and puke rays pictured here are real. Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield. If the […]
SQNewton didn’t just crack open a bluetooth headset and cram it into a cool retro handset casing; he developed his own hardware to produce a fully-functional, self-contained phone that uses the Ericofon’s original rotary dial, gives dial and busy tones, mimics the original Ericofon ringer, and has voice-recognition dialing to top it off. [via Hack a Day]
Here come the open source culture = piracy articles… from CNN. “With the open-source culture on the Internet, the idea of ownership — of artistic ownership — goes away,” Alexie (novelist and poet Sherman Alexie) added. “It terrifies me.” It’s more terrifying when someone groups open source with piracy. In my experience, as an artist […]
In November, I had the opportunity to travel to Seattle for a Magic: The Gathering tournament. While I was there, I visited the headquarters of TwinTech, a small company run by identical twin brothers, Steve and Chris Burrows, who manufacture a small rack-building set called MicroRAX. At the time, a similar set, called MakerBeam, was […]
