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Charles Guan: Build Your Everything Really Really Fast

Chris Connors — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:00:27 +0000

Charles Guan is an MIT alumnus, and has been making projects that have been festive and amazing over the past few years. Charles has been influential in the MIT Makerspace/club MITERS, where students create all manner of great projects. He and MITERS members have been frequent fliers at various Maker Faires, so you may already be familiar with his work. Charles has served as a Teaching Assistant at MIT in Mechanical Engineering, helping his fellow students to fabricate the contraptions of their dreams. As a TA, he's heard the same questions over and over, so he created some instructional documentation to make his and his fellow students' lives easier. This was a set of lectures and handouts he called How to Build Your Robot Really Really Fast (HTBYRRRF). In more recent times, he set out to update this as a more inclusive set of building guides. Drawing from his own online documentation, he was able to codify his ideas into a thorough Instructable: How to Build Your Everything Really Really Fast, or HTBYERRF.

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Dale Dougherty Introducing Make a Makerspace Conference

Chris Connors — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:00:17 +0000

As this weekend's conference on How to Make a Makerspace is getting started, I had a chance to speak briefly with Dale Dougherty. He briefly summed up why we need makerspaces, and what we might look forward to from this emerging community. This weekend, nearly 200 representatives of established and burgeoning makerspaces from twenty states and three countries, have assembled at Artisans Asylum in Somerville, MA. We will be reporting on the event, here on Make, and will have more complete coverage on the Make a Makerspace site.

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Vinyl PCB Resist

Chris Connors — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:00:56 +0000

Etch your circuits the easy way — with a resist pattern you make on a vinyl cutter. MAKE Volume 33 features our special Software for Makers section covering apps for circuit board design, 3D design and printing, microcontrollers, and programming for kids. Also, meet our new Arduino-powered Rovera robot and […]

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Hexy: Leg Assembly

Chris Connors — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:04:42 +0000

This guide will bring you through the process of building one of Hexy’s six legs. The steps of building one of Hexy’s legs are: Gathering the parts and tools. Peeling the protective paper Identifying parts for the subsystems Assembling the subsystems Drilling the holes in the servo horns Attaching the […]

Hexy: Body Building

Chris Connors — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:04:42 +0000

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Vinyl Cut PCB Resist

Chris Connors — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:02:33 +0000

Here’s an easy technique to create a decent quality circuit board. You can design your own circuit traces, or you can find existing artwork of proven designs. There lots of ways to etch a circuit board, but all of them create a path for the electricity by preserving and removing […]

Mendocino Motor

Chris Connors — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:55:37 +0000

See photons turned into motion with this solar-powered, magnetically levitating electric motor.

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HeadphoneHat

Chris Connors — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:55:35 +0000

Winter is finally here in Massachusetts. While digging in the ‘Hats’ plastic tub today, I happened upon a flappy hat from last year. SantaMaker recently brought me some cheap headphones, and a few amplified speakers too (but those are for another project). Tonight turned out to be the time to […]

HatMaking

Chris Connors — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:54:26 +0000

This project can take about an hour, more if you want to be more precise or add more customization to your hats. Your hat will be made to fit your head, or could be used as a gift. Photos of the development of this project: Deconstructing Hats set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/connors934/… One […]

Half Hour Headphone Hat

Chris Connors — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:30:37 +0000

Winter has fully arrived in Massachusetts. While digging through our “Hats” box today, I happened upon a flappy number from last year. Santa recently brought me some cheap headphones, and a few amplified speakers too (but those are for another project). Tonight turned out to be the time to merge […]

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