One of the best things about exhibiting at Maker Faire is giving attendees a challenge. For the 2010 Maker Faire Bay Area, I decided to combine a past project of...
Posted by Steve Hoefer
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, Kids & Family | 1 Comment
This small table fits young kids perfectly — and they can scribble to their hearts’ content on the dry-erase tabletop.
Posted by Larry Cotton and Phil Bowie
Categories: Furniture, Home, Kids & Family | No Comments
Remote-start your ride from any distance, sans key fob.
Posted by Eric Merrill
Categories: Home, Arduino | No Comments
Papier-mâché has been around for many years. I will be using one of the easiest ways to make it, although not the cheapest. Papier-mâché is basically cutting strips of paper,...
Posted by charcoll98
Categories: Home, Paper Crafts | 1 Comment
When I first started building homemade instruments, I used a piezoelectric buzzer from RadioShack as a pickup (see http://onestringwillie.com for details). But while it’s cheap and simple, the piezo transducer...
Posted by Meara O'Reilly
Categories: Music | No Comments
By John Baichtal and Adam Wolf Do you remember those classic video game arcades filled with rattling quarters, 8-bit songs, and flashing lights? You can reclaim that excitement in your...
Posted by John Baichtal
Categories: Electronics, Arduino, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
When I read the Geekcon 2010 call for projects, I thought, what the hack — I’ll do it. Inspired by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, I decided to let creativity...
Posted by Zvika Markfeld
Categories: Electronics, Arduino, Fun & Games, Kids & Family | No Comments
People appear symmetrical, but even the most perfect human face shows irregularities if we compare the left side with the right. Perhaps this is why the absolute, rigid symmetry of...
Posted by Charles Platt
Categories: Furniture | No Comments
About 13 years ago I learned of some military research into a satellite- and missile-defense device that would propel projectiles using Lenz’s law, which governs the direction of electrical current...
Posted by Thomas R Fox
How to fabricate, out of mostly recycled materials, an ultraviolet nighttime bug trap, since ultraviolet light attracts most insects. Tired of nighttime critters and drowning in bug spray? Try this...
Posted by Billy
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | No Comments
This project uses a simple 555 timer chip and a feedback loop to control a servo-controlled wooden arm. Whenever an object comes close to a photosensor mounted on the end...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
Computers add binary numbers constantly, but we never see how. This elegant machine does the math using glass marbles. I started building marble track machines years ago using Lego. I...
Posted by Matthias Wandel
Categories: Electronics, Woodworking | No Comments
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