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July 9, 2007
Say hi to Gareth
Everyone please welcome Gareth Branwyn to the MAKE blog, you may know him from many of his fantastic articles in MAKE (print) - and now he's here on the MAKE blog too!
Pictured here, Gareth on the left, I'm in the center, Bre is on the right.
Gareth came out swinging, check out his posts!
- 1930s Japanese robot - Link.
- Hamster wheel steam train - Link.
- R2-S2 (Steam R2-D2) - Link.
- Barebones Arduino on a breadboard - Link.
- HOW TO - Make an aux-in for the Bose SoundDock - Link.
- HOW TO - Tell Temperature with Crickets - Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 01:00 AM
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1930s Japanese robot
Yasutaro Mitsui with his steel humanoid, circa early 1930s. Dig those crazy vacuum tubes...
Robot of the day - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 9, 2007 12:00 AM
Retro, Robotics |
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July 8, 2007
Last Day of the Weekend - Subscribe to the Weekend Projects Podcast!
This weekend, the video will teach you how to make your own printed circuit board and the PDF has the supply lists and everything you need to get started! Get the video and PDF automatically by subscribing in itunes. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 8, 2007 12:50 PM
Weekend Projects |
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Barebones Arduino on a breadboard
Here is a truly barebones Arduino setup. Just the Arduino chip and a few support parts. This has to be close to the simplest and lowest cost way to play with microcontrollers. The only special parts are the resonator and the Mega168 programmed with the Arduino boot loader. Everything else you should already have as an electronics hobbyist.
Ardunio Breadboard - [Via] Link
Related:
- HOW TO - Arduino breadboard shield - $10 & 10 mins - Link
- Arduino ProtoShield assembly + use - Link
- HOW TO - Control your Mac from Arduino, the easy way - Link
- Arduino variant - Bare-Bones Board - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 8, 2007 12:18 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Open source hardware |
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July 7, 2007
HOW TO - Make an aux-in for the Bose SoundDock
Will O'Brien posted this short how-to on Hack A Day because he says the site gets quite a few hits on posts about the Bose SoundDock portable speaker system. On my site, Street Tech, the review of the SoundDock also gets lots of traffic, so there appears to be a lot of SoundDock enthusiasts out there...
There is a solderless way to hack an aux input for the Sounddock.(1) Go to Wal-mart (or elsewhere) and buy the Griffin Dock Adapter for iPod Shuffle (~$20) and a Belkin Speaker and Headphone splitter (~$4). (The Belkin splitter is needed in order to fit properly over the Shuffle plug on the device, but other cables/adapters might work.)
(2) Remove the existing adapter plate and replace it with the Dock adapter.
(3) Set the switch to speaker. (Very Important!)
(4) Plug in one end of the Belkin adapter and you are ready to go! Any input signal automatically activates the Sounddock. Now you have a fully functional female and male stereo headphone input for your Sounddock.-->Total cost ~$25 and no soldering required.
Hack A Day - Link
Street Tech Bose SoundDock review - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 7, 2007 10:10 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Music, Portable Audio and Video |
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Ceramic electronics
Gallery of Ma Jun's amazing porcelain works - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 7, 2007 06:00 AM
Arts |
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Bicycle mod collection
Speaking of hamster wheels, this collection of bike mods from Peter Wagner has all sorts of fun! -Link.
Updated link, thanks AgingInOctal.
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Jul 7, 2007 05:00 AM
Bicycles |
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Hamster wheel steam train
Crabu sent us a link to this mate of his, David Wegmuller's, latest project, a steam train that carries its own hoop o' rail. Silly... in the most wonderful sense of the word.
Live steam hamster wheel gallery on David's site - Link
Related:
LEGO self tracker - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 7, 2007 12:00 AM
DIY Projects, Retro |
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July 6, 2007
Make Your Own Printed Circuit Boards - Make: Video Podcast
This week I teamed up with Xander Hudson to make PCBs. Besides being pretty, making your own printed circuit boards is fun and you can have a prototype board ready in a few hours.
First you need a design. There are a bunch of timer circuits in the latest issue of Make: that are begging for circuit boards. There are lots of designs online at places like discovercircuits.com
Eagle CAD has a bit of a steep learning curve, but it's got a library of parts that you can drag and drop onto the board that make getting everything the right size and proportion easy.
If you don't want to design your own circuit, you can download all the source files, including a pdf, and print them out on a laser printer out to make the Make: Light. - Link (Zip File)
Also, make sure to download the pdf that goes along with this podcast that includes a great article by Andrew Argyle that includes material lists and step by step instructions. - Link
Weekend Projects is sponsored by Microchip Technology. Check out their seminars and the Microchip Masters Conference.
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 6, 2007 07:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, MAKE Podcast, Weekend Projects |
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Make Your Own Printed Circuit Boards - Make: PDFcast
This weeks PDF includes an article by Andrew Argyle with instructions that will take you step by step through the PCB making process. Originally printed in Make: Volume 2, this article has the material lists and extra notes that can't be found in the video. - PDF Link
To see chematic and PCB board designs, you'll also want to download this zip file which has all the source files in it so that you can get started making the Make: Light right away. - Link (Zip File)
Making PCB boards if really fun. When you make your own boards, upload them to the Make: Flickr Pool. I'd love to see them!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 6, 2007 06:00 AM
MAKE PDF, MAKE Podcast, Weekend Projects |
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R2-S2 (Steam R2-D2) gets props on Star Wars Blog
Make pal I-Wei Huang, a.k.a. Crabfu, the steambots guru, was interviewed by Bonnie Burton for the Official Star Wars Blog...
How do your skills as an animator help when you make these cool creations?Being an animator, you tend to see things in a different way, and can't help but notice subtle details of how things move and work, especially in motion of humans and animals. To be an animator these days, you sort of have to have a balance between being artsy-fartsy and techy-geeky. I like seeing mechanical things work, because it's visual. You can watch and study the transfer of power, and figure out how one thing drives another. When it comes to non-visual things, like electronics, I have a hard time grasping concepts of how everything work together.
Satr Wars Blog - Link
Related:
- R/C Steam turbine tank - Link
- Maker Faire: Steam turbine tank- Link
- Make Podcast: I-Wei Huang's Steambots - Link.
- Interview with Crabfu Steamworks - Link.
- RC controlled steam beetle - Link.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 6, 2007 12:00 AM
Arts, DIY Projects, Made On Earth, Robotics |
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July 5, 2007
MAKE: Halloween special edition
We have some big news! You can now pre-order DIY HALLOWEEN 2007 - from the editors of MAKE and CRAFT. 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that's made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 06:00 PM
Announcements, Halloween |
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Drive tray guitar
Jonah writes -
This "Drive Tray Guitar" was built by a workshop participant during our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop held at Eyebeam in NYC last weekend. Basically it was built by integrating an old computer's CD drive into the body of an acoustic guitar and using the "Ejection" mechanism to create a "strumming" function that when moved back and forth connected up the "strings/wires" to produce sounds. Really nice use of an existing instrument mixed with some electronics detritus from the scrapyard!Drive Tray Guitar @ MSC - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 04:00 PM
DIY Projects, Music |
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VeloAce - Open source Palm based bike computer
Here's an open source bike computer using an old Palm...
Bike Computer System for Palm OS. Provides detailed data views, logging to database, trip data estimation, trainer with Top 10 laps, graphical speedometer. Supports km/h and mph units. The wheel sensor is simply connected over RS232 or even IrDA.SourceForge.net: VeloAce - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 02:00 PM
Bicycles, DIY Projects, Gadgets |
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Knit iPhone
That was fast, Greg's Mom knitted him an iPhone - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 01:00 PM
Crafts |
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Auto-recorder project
Amin Rahimi's recorder project...
Being the huge band geek that I am, I decided that my project should involve some kind of musical instrument. Given the limited time that I had to complete the project, I decided to have my computer play a simple Yamaha recorder that was sitting in one of my drawers.Recorder - Link.Because of a limited budget, I used mostly components that I already had. The air compressor came from my car horn, which is capable of producing 138 decibels. This was clearly not the ideal compressor to use, but it was enough to get the project done without spending loads of money. As a result, the sound of the motor drowns out a lot of the recorder pitch as you can hear in the videos linked at the bottom of this page. You'll also notice that the speed of the motor changes with the pitch of the recorder to create the proper tone. This was done using pulse width modulation.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 12:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity
This astronaut shows how to build a gyro-stabilized lighting platform using three CD players for gyroscopes, thanks RayCeeYa! Link.
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Jul 5, 2007 11:00 AM
DIY Projects, Science |
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Nixie clock build / review
Yngvarr writes -
Well, I built a nixie clock in the past, so why build another one? I saw this nice clock listed on makezine recently, and really couldn't resist...The kit arrived, well packaged. You can see below that the kit maker put a lot of personal effort into this. He supplies as much as feasible. That means wire, shrink tubing, solder and solder wick. Nice touch.Another nixie clock - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 10:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Sticks and Stones Version 2
Last year some friends and I made a Rube Goldberg machine in the woods out of sticks and stones. The Discovery Channel Canada asked us to do it again and Jesse, Brenda, and I went into nature again and made it bigger and better and more complicated. Jesse recently dug the footage out of the archives and edited together this widescreen version where you can see both perspectives at the same time. Jesse's got more photos and videos here and I've got a photset here. Quicktime version - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 5, 2007 09:23 AM
MAKE Video |
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Inside-out teddy bears
I really like these turned-inside-out teddy bears from artist Kent Rogowski - [via] Link.
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Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 09:00 AM
Arts, Crafts |
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