Tim is a high school senior doing an independent study. An important part of his work is to learn and document his process with the Shopbot. In order to improve on this first design I modified the top to be 14 inches in diameter as opposed to the original 16 inch diameter, which some people […]
Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes | mov | 3g2 I made this scorpion toy with a Twitchie Robot Kit. I’m really afraid of scorpions where I live in Arizona, so I thought a friendly toy would help me get used to them. I made his plush body […]
Processing 1.0 is out – Arduino and Wiring are physical computing initiatives related to Processing, open source, data visualization, amazing work – and now it’s 1.0! Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists […]
Those with doctorates in artificial intelligence are never the best stewards of houseplants. Programmer Bryan Horling says he’s killed whole swaths of greenery inside and outside his rural western Massachusetts home. But at least one plant will survive, thanks to a computer-controlled plant watering system — a simple network of plastic tubing and an aquarium […]
The REPLICATOR blog put together an overview of Open Source Hardware including a past presentation I co-authored, a good start if you’re interested in the ongoing evolution of the Open Source Hardware movement. The biggest challenges I see ahead involves the use of the term “Open source hardware” – for the folks who have been […]
The AVGA project is an open source (It’s GPL, but it says “don’t make money with it”) AVR based color video game development platform for a single chip game console via HackedGadgets.
Michael Una brings us the Beep-It optically controlled squarewave generator in a petri dish enclosure – This minimalist electronic musical instrument eschews esoteric interface in favor of intuitive, expressive control. One button turns the device on or off, which can produce a continuous tone or a rhythmic sequence. One sensor varies pitch of the output […]
