Prolific maker [Jeremy Cook] recently put the finishing touches (at least, for now) on his impressive ClearCrawler remote controlled Strandbeest, which includes among other things a surprisingly expressive “head” complete with LED matrix eyes. For anyone in the audience who was only mildly terrified of these multi-legged robotic beasties before, you may want to avert your eyes from […]
RC STRANDBEEST IS A HEAD ABOVE THE REST Continue Reading
Pet feeders are a popular maker project. One can speculate that this shows the great self-confidence common to the maker set, who are willing to trust their own work to keep their animal companions alive for many days at a a time. [Darren Tarbard] is one such maker, who put together this simple auger build. The
A SIMPLE AUGER PET FEEDER Continue Reading
We have developed into Pedosa Innovation, a tech start-up founded by the developer of Pedosa Glass. We have continued to develop wearable technology, in addition to cloud infrastructure and STEM education programmes for kids in Hong Kong. Learn more at www.pedosa.org, or contact us at [email protected]. UPDATE: I released the version 2 of Pedosa Glass which
The benefit of living in the modern era is that there are plenty of affordable machine tools on the market for the budding maker. However, to meet lower price points, products often forgo some of the nice-to-have features that make working easier. Of course, if you’ve got the skills to do it yourself, this needn’t
ADDING A DIGITAL READOUT TO A WOOD LATHE Continue Reading
Although RGB LEDs diffused by ping pong balls will probably never stop being cool, [thomasj152] feels that flat panels of balls have become a bit of a tired concept. After a lot of effort and two complete builds, he has spun up an 80-ball spherical lamp. The results are positively glowing! All the balls are connected
TABLE TENNIS BALL LAMP SERVES UP STYLE Continue Reading
In ridiculous times, it can help to play ridiculous instruments such as the slide whistle to keep your bristles in check. But since spittle is more than a little bit dangerous these days, it pays to come up with alternative ways to play away the days during lockdown life. Thanks to some clever Arduino-driven automation, [Gurpreet]
SELF-PLAYING WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK FROM HOME Continue Reading
Timepieces are cool no matter how simplistic or granular they are. Sometimes its nice not to know exactly what time it is down to the second, and most of the really beautiful clocks are simple as can be. If you didn’t know this was a clock, it would still be fascinating to watch the bearings
MINIMALIST MAGNETIC MINUTE MINDER MESMERIZES Continue Reading
Another weekend, another exciting game! And this time, it’s none other than everybody’s favorite arcade game – Pinball! This project will show you how to make your very own Pinball machine easily at home. All you’d need are components from the evive Starter Kit, some laser-cut parts, colors and papers to decorate your machine, and
Tabletop Pinball Machine Using Evive- Arduino Based Embedded Plaform Continue Reading
Build your own Word Clock with an animated display. This is a simple project uses an Arduino Nano, Color LEDs and includes a stylish 3D Printed Case. The Word Clock has three animated patterns– Matrix style – Typewriter Style – Rainbow Color The three buttons on the back enable animation style, color and time to
Animated Word Clock Continue Reading
I wanted to create a digital version of the Magic 8 Ball… The body of this is 3D printed and the display has been changed from an polyhedron in blue dye to a small OLED controlled by a random number generator programmed into an Arduino NANO. Then I went on a bit of a tangent
Electronic Magic 8 Ball and Eyeball Continue Reading
