Here's a clip of Liquid Robotics founder and CTO Roger Hine talking, at the most recent Bay Area Maker Faire, about the innovative design of his company's Wave Glider robot...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday November 30th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Robotics, Science | No Comments
Mark Crosbie’s Lego Street View Car that we blogged in June is back, completely rebuilt: I wanted to re-build the car to only use the Lego Mindstorms NXT motors. I...
Posted by John Baichtal | Saturday November 12th, 2011 5:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
Check out Flickr user Rumtopf’s fancy take on the reverse geocache box. For those who don’t know, a reverse geocache is a box that unlocks itself when the GPS sensor...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday October 19th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | No Comments
Andrew Holme built this incredible four-channel GPS receiver using a repurposed FPGA board from a previous frequency synthesizer project. Connected to a PC running a console app, Andrew's receiver is...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday October 4th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 2 Comments
QR Code Island is a delightfully hare-brained concept design from Mat Barnes and Eddie Blake, which will continue to delight me until news appears that someone is actually trying to...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday September 22nd, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | 19 Comments
As gimmicks go, this one from diver and photographer Andreas Franke is pretty smart: The novelty of an "underwater gallery" is likely to bring lots of attention to his work...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 14th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Photography & Video | 1 Comment
Josh Billions demonstrates the Mapbag at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It is a bicycle messenger bag with a ring of vibrating motors sewn into its strap, whose positions correspond...
Posted by Becky Stern | Tuesday September 13th, 2011 10:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile, Craft, General | No Comments
Since most urban cyclists can never be sure what they'll be locking to, they'll often keep both a chain and a U-Lock for versatility's sake. If you had an extra...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Monday August 22nd, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 93 Comments
This is cool, GPS units disable themselves if they go faster than 1,200 mph and if they go above 60,000 feet… In GPS technology, the phrasing “COCOM Limits” is also...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday July 25th, 2011 9:06 PM
Categories: General | 35 Comments
Shown uppermost is the prototype of a handheld artillery spotting device developed as a student capstone project at West Point. The blue board to upper left is pretty clearly an...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 27th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, Machining | 10 Comments
We have covered Alan's Biocca's fantastic clearinghouse site antennalaunchers.com before, and Brookfield, CT, resident Andrew Stoev's basic launcher design appears to be a slightly up-gunned version of Alan's CSV19 pneumatic...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 20th, 2011 3:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft | 5 Comments
Our pals at iFixit have scored a pretty sweet scoop with this photo-dissection of the guts of an official FBI bumper-beeper.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday May 9th, 2011 1:15 PM
Categories: Education | 5 Comments
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