In the Maker Shed: Designing Automata kit
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: : : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Hack the box to get to the phone Main In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit The Designing Automata kit will teach you about simple mechanics using cams , cranks , and slider mechanisms . The kit includes instructions for making several different automata , and since no glue is used , it can be used over and over again . Made from chemical-free rubber wood that is from sustainable . resources Posted by Maker Shed Dec 31, 2009 01:00 AM Arts Crafts DIY Projects Maker Shed Store Permalink Comments 0 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet prop Leave a comment Name Email Address Title Comments Subscribe to MAKE Magazine Subscribe today , save 42 and get web access to MAKE free . MAKE Digital Edition is
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store DIY steadicam , version five Main Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community From Wired's Autopia : blog China is home to a widespread DIY culture fed by necessity the mother of all invention and innovation . These garage builders and innovators are , like their products , often called shanzhai . Literally translated , it means mountain strongholds , but it has come to mean nonprofessional or clandestine manufacturers turning out products from the basic to the highly sophisticated . These shanzhai often take familiar products , concepts and marketing memes and remake them with peculiar but innovative twists . Aviation is by no means an exception , and it has its share of shanzhai builders . But there is more to it than that . China's emerging aviator class is spreading its wings with a plethora of approaches , from the ramshackle to the sophisticated to the potentially revolutionary . They're using everything imaginable , from old motorcycle engines to electric motors to even their own legs , like Mao Yiqing and his human-powered
: , : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Amazing animated optical illusions Main China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Back in July , I blogged about YB2Normal's inexpensive PVC gimbal for a home-made steadicam rig . Since that time , William has been steadily refining his design . Version five pictured above , features a redesigned gimbal incorporating an off-the-shelf auto part . via Hack A Day From the pages of : MAKE Johnny Lee showed us how to build a 14 Video Camera Stabilizer way back in MAKE 01 Posted by Sean Michael Ragan Dec 30, 2009 02:00 PM DIY Projects Imaging Photography Permalink Comments 2 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet prop Comments Oldest comments listed . first Posted by : Matt on December 30, 2009
: : : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Yours truly guest-blogs Make Meaning Main Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet prop Interesting tutorial over on , Propnomicon by Richard Bird , who built this vintage diving helmet replica prop for a recent LARP adventure for London's The Dark Door group . Posted by Sean Michael Ragan Dec 30, 2009 09:05 AM DIY Projects Halloween Wearables Permalink Comments 2 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet prop Comments Oldest comments listed . first Posted by : Simon on December 30, 2009 at 12:12 PM Oddly I was just looking into old diving helmets . If you want to know all about them this site is great http : www.divingheritage.com Reply to this comment Posted by :
: : : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Laser-cut Connect Four game looks mighty fine Main How-To : Structured light 3D scanning How-To : Using an accelerometer with an AVR microcontroller Evil Mad Scientist Labs posted a thorough update to their accelerometer tutorial using ADXL335 breakout board , ATMega168 chip , and LEDs as indicators The big idea is that when there is no acceleration in say the X-axis direction , both X-axis LEDs are off . When it detects acceleration one way , the red LED lights up and brighter , the higher the acceleration is and it lights up blue for acceleration in the opposite direction . Naturally , the other two axes work the same way . The full step-by-step source code can be found on EMSL's site : Related Using an ADXL330 accelerometer with an AVR microcontroller Arduino XBee wireless accelerometer Posted by Collin Cunningham Dec 30, 2009 07:15 AM DIY Projects Electronics Permalink Comments 0 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Use your N900 as a PS3 controller Main How-To : Using an accelerometer with an AVR microcontroller Laser-cut Connect Four game looks mighty fine From the MAKE Flickr pool Mark Demers shows off the latest from Spikenzie Labs , Four in a line a laser-cut Connect Four style game which looks a heckuva lot slicker than its retail . counterpart I've always been a last minute Christmas shopper and it has usually worked out . This year I had a request to get a Connect Four game , but I couldn't find it in stock anywhere . So I decided to make my own version of . it After working like one of Santa's Elfs for a few hours minus the green tights I had beautiful Connect Four style . game The project's design files can be found over at Thingiverse Posted by Collin Cunningham Dec 30, 2009 06:30 AM DIY Projects Toys and Games Permalink Comments 0 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated
: : : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Human-shaped bed Main Use your N900 as a PS3 controller In the Maker Shed : Chumby Guts We still have a few more Chumby guts ready for you to hack , modify , or you can just make a cool enclosure and enjoy . What's a Chumby Glad you asked It's an amazing little piece of technology that lets you get what's best on the web and delivers it right to you on it's 3.5 touch screen LCD . You can play games , check the weather , twitter , news , music , and even watch YouTube videos . All of this is done via you home's wireless Internet connection . Get em while you can , we have very limited stock Here's what comes in each kit : 3.5'' LCD 320hx240v 16bpp TFT with Touch Screen Texas Instruments TSC2100 Programmable Touchscreen Controller with Stereo DAC Plastic Front Bezel Gasket Aluminum Frame 4 x Screws to attach Aluminum Frame to Front Bezel 350MHz Freescale iMX21 MC94MX21DVKN3 ARM9 controller Motherboard Circuit Card Assembly with Samsung 64MB SDRAM on 32-bit data path and Hynix HY27US 64MB NAND Flash ROM Kionix KXP74-1050 3-axis accelerometer Daughtercard Circuit Card
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Felt control panel Main Best projects of 2009, MAKE magazine Learn to write games using Python Interested in learning how to program , or know someone who is Then you might want to check out Al Sweigart's free book , Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python Now in it's second edition , the Creative Commons-licensed book was written to help anyone , young or old , learn to program in the powerful Python . language From the : introduction Programming isn't hard . But it is hard to find learning materials that teach you to do interesting things with programming . Other computer books go over many topics that most newbie coders don't need . This book will teach you how to program your own computer games . You will learn a useful skill and have fun games to show for it This book is : for Anyone who wants to teach themselves computer programming , even if they have no previous experience . programming Kids and teenagers who want to learn computer programming by creating games . Kids as young as 9 or 10 years old should be able to follow . along Adults and teachers who wish
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Cool CNC-friendly desk lamp design Main Piano that speaks Lamp turns on with floaty magnet I'm digging the way you turn on this fiat lux lamp by designers Constance Guisset and Grégory Cid . In place of the standard light switch , you place an orb under the lamp , which then presumably uses a magnetic field to hold it in place . When you are done , you simply pull it away and the light goes . out I think it would be awesome to make this into a timer for the light- the lamp could have a control system that slowly lowers the orb , until it gets far enough away that it drops to the floor and shuts off the light . Anyone want to try it via notcot Posted by Matt Mets Dec 29, 2009 10:00 AM Furniture Remake Permalink Comments 11 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Tesla tornado xmas tree Main Lamp turns on with floaty magnet Cool CNC-friendly desk lamp design Pedro Mealha was inspired by those 3D plywood dinosaur kits when he designed this lamp , called rhizome the armature of which is a great example of the emerging router aesthetics Bruce Sterling wrote about back in MAKE Volume 11 I also like the wooden race and exposed ball-bearings that let it pivot at the base . Now if we can just persuade him to post the DXF files on Thingiverse . via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Posted by Sean Michael Ragan Dec 29, 2009 09:00 AM 3D printing Furniture Remake Permalink Comments 4 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet prop Comments Oldest comments listed . first Posted by :
: : : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Solar charge battery powered toys . Main Christmas Tree responds to Twitter mentions New in the Maker Shed : Thingamagoop 2 Make , mod , hack , and bend your own analog noise monster with the new Thingamagoop 2 kit from the Maker Shed It's a great kit for beginners , since it includes detailed instructions and photos of each step of the build . Advanced users can taking advantage of the Arduino integration , control voltage in and out , or just bend it like crazy Features Analog VCO controlled by analog or digital signal from Arduino . A separate Arduino board is not required Sample and hold , Arpeggios , noise , and bit crush effects with open source code so you can program your own sounds All the analog sounds of the original Thingamagoop . Controllable LEDacle Ramp and random waveforms with rate control . New modulators Square wave amplitude modulator and triangle wave pulse width modulator . Tough , stomp box type body with silk screened graphics in 3 different . styles Easy to access battery No more screws Much fuller and louder speaker CV in and out Arduino
: . : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Happy birthday , Linus Main New in the Maker Shed : Thingamagoop 2 Solar charge battery powered toys . Jeff writes in with a quickie solar project . I recently purchased two remote control cars for my nephews from a dollar store . The cars came with three rechargeable AA batteries and also a cheap AC charger that connects to the car , but unfortunately grew hot when plugged in a classic wall wart So I’m giving them the cars with a solar panel and withholding the AC chargers . The best part is how easy it was to make it all work as I piggy-backed on the car’s built-in charging . circuit Posted by Phillip Torrone Dec 28, 2009 08:00 PM Electronics Permalink Comments 0 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Party popper Claymore Main Help us brainstorm Make : Online , 2010 DIY Flashlamp-pumped organic dye laser My friend Jon Singer has been experimenting with creating a relatively-cheap , straightforward flashlamp pumped dye laser This first-blush version uses caps he bought on eBay . As he refines the design , he hopes to avoid as many commercial components as possible . This proof-of-concept build was attempting to answer the musical question : Is a dozen Joules enough to threshold a dye Answer : yes . Toward a Straightforward DIY Flashlamp-Pumped Organic Dye Laser Step 1, First Proof of Principle : A Minimalist Machine Jon also recently called me , excited , cause he'd managed to get three dyes to oscillate in the same cuvette to create RGB laser light The guy's a monster . Half the time , I don't really understand what he's talking about , but I always feel smarter for having done so . See his RGB White' Dye Laser Light from a Single Cuvette research report . here : More Homegrown laser crystals El cheapo mirror mounts Posted by Gareth Branwyn Dec 28, 2009 02:30 PM
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Make paper conductive using simple carbon nanotube ink Main LEGO minifig group costume Fab radio looks fabulous David Mellis , of Arduino fame , wrote in to share this radio that he built with Dana Gordon . Noting that most personal fabrication projects seem to be aimed at niche markets , they designed a radio that could be enjoyed by anyone . Their hope is to enable individuals to produce and sell small-scale products profitably . They have an excellent write-up on their website , complete with schematics , board designs and . drawings Posted by Matt Mets Dec 28, 2009 10:30 AM Arduino Furniture Open source hardware Permalink Comments 0 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam , version five Amazing animated optical illusions Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home How lumber is made Intern's Corner : DIY LED yo-yo side caps How-To : Build a vintage diving helmet prop Leave a comment Name Email
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Stretch sensitive bracelet Main Make paper conductive using simple carbon nanotube ink Handmade telescope I received the most special gift this Christmas . My husband , Chris , was holed up in our garage most nights since November , feverishly working on a secret project for me . He's never attempted woodworking before , but tackled this project with absolute determination . I'm a huge space geek , and have been fascinated with the night sky almost all of my life . I've talked of wanting a good telescope , and it would have been very easy for him to just make a stop by the store to pick one up . That he spent weeks working on this for me makes it the most special gift I've ever received . Watching him get so excited about the project's progress and work through difficulties and come up with ingenious solutions of his own was so much fun . My only disappointment was that I couldn't be out in the garage working with him . When he unveiled the telescope on Christmas Eve , I was stunned and very excited . When I looked through the eye piece and gazed upon the moon crystal
: : Make Technology on Your Time RSS Blog Make Magazine Videos Podcasts Projects Forum Community Maker Shed Store Researchers create golden aluminum , black platinum , blue silver Main Stretch sensitive bracelet Home in a garbage truck This guy converted a garbage truck into a mobile home . I love the storage drawers , which have cut-outs in them for all of the kitchen tools and dinnerware so that it doesn't knock about when the house is in motion . via Steven Robert's Facebook page Update : As several people have pointed out in comments , this is NOT a converted garbage truck , but an actual camper mobile home called the TerraCross . Snopes even has a page on it Regardless of what it's called , or how it was made , I still think the cut-out drawers , the original inspiration for posting it , are cool . But otherwise , sorry for the . hoodwink A Story of Organization in Pictures Posted by Gareth Branwyn Dec 28, 2009 07:30 AM Remake Transportation Permalink Comments 9 Email This Digg this Recent Entries In the Maker Shed : Designing Automata kit Hack the box to get to the phone Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin China's DIY aviation community DIY steadicam ,
Our local Radio Club has a great time each year doing the ARRL Field Day event.
Mancorad W9DK has a great turnout, a great site to use at “Toboggan Hill” in Silver Creek Park, and generally has a blast with the event.
It also does allow us to set up and run in a field/emergency configuration – [...]