Our maker this week is Kyle Machulis, a hardware and software hacker who led the team in making the reverse engineer drivers for the Microsoft Kinect. Kyle is also an avid self-tracker, which means he uses technology to measure different aspects of his health and biology.
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | March 12th, 2012 7:15 PM
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What a great start to the year – this brand new instrument was finished just in time for a New Year’s Eve party in the beautiful Dorset countryside. A selection of talented musicians, none of whom had played a Badgermin before, treated us to a debut performance in the early hours of January 1st, with [...]
Posted by John Baichtal | March 12th, 2012 6:20 PM
Categories: Music | 3 Comments
Check out this cool Lego Terminator hand that Jason Devine and his sons built, complete with strings that curl the fingers. See the Flickr set for more views and a video of the hand in action.
Posted by John Baichtal | March 12th, 2012 5:00 PM
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Sugru for bones :)
Posted by Phillip Torrone | March 12th, 2012 2:00 PM
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Color 3D printing allows one to make beautiful objects that are pretty much impossible to fabricate by any other technique. Here is a 9-inch diameter sculpture I designed and built on a 3D Systems Zprinter 450.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | March 12th, 2012 12:00 PM
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This paper automata entitled "Nervous Owl" from the folks at cool4cats shows an owl with its head turning around and back again trying to keep its eye on a motorcycle-riding mouse down below its tree. The whole mechanism is controlled by a crank below the piece that the user can use to set the animation going.
Posted by Michael Colombo | March 12th, 2012 11:00 AM
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Chris Locke from Heartless Machine If you have already been watching MAKE’s alt.SXSW livestream, stay tuned today until 3:30 CST and you’ll catch MAKE’s official SXSW podcast. We are doing a SXSW Maker Show and Tell, profiling local Austinites and makers here for THE FESTIVAL. (If you have a SXSW badge, the panel is 3:30 [...]
Posted by Sabrina Merlo | March 12th, 2012 10:47 AM
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Do you want to learn what makes an Arduino tick? Check out the MintDuino, available exclusively in the Maker Shed! It’s perfect for anyone interested in learning or teaching the fundamentals of how microcontrollers work.
Posted by Maker Shed | March 12th, 2012 8:00 AM
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DIY physics guru David Prutchi coveted one of the expensive professional-grade gyroscopic camera stabilizers made by Kenyon Laboratories. "These devices," he observes, "don’t seem to have changed much since Kenyon’s founder filed the following two patents in the 50′s: US2811042, US2570130." Referencing those patents, David reverse-engineered the basic geometry of the Kenyon stabilizer using a pair of inexpensive precision gyroscopes from Glenn Turner of gyroscopes.com.
Posted by Sean Ragan | March 12th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Photography, Physics, Video Making | 12 Comments
Shibuya, Tokyo is now home to Fab Café, a coffee house with a public use laser cutter. Just walk in with a vector design and your material and enjoy a cup of coffee while the laser does its thing.
Posted by Matt Richardson | March 12th, 2012 4:00 AM
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Learn the basics of fiber optics communications while you build this exciting kit. Send your voice through the fiber optic cable to the speaker at the other end. Transmitter and receiver on separate boards can be located hundreds of feet apart!