It's just an egg, placed in a vulnerable position. "I thought it would be fun to pit a large metal machine against a small fragile object," says Mendoza.
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Swedish tech artist and comedienne Simone Giertz tries her hand at creating the most annoying alarm clock possible
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Watch a Redditor share how he hacked a DC motor and hooked it up to an Arduino to use as an encoder.
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Ian Martin shows off his very impressive homemade Star Wars Dejarik table and runs through its functions and game play.
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Riffing off of the word clock idea, this Maker created a backlit display for the local weather forecast.
The post This Backlit Display is Like a Word Clock for Weather appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.
One Maker’s experiment in robotics results in an insatiable cereal transport system using Arduino, 3D printing, and Rice Krispies.
The post This Cereal-Stealing Robot Will Swipe Your Breakfast appeared first on Make: DIY Projects, How-Tos, Electronics, Crafts and Ideas for Makers.
A sharp-eyed Twitter user noticed that during a breaking news segment about the crash of the Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 in Egypt this week, CNN briefly displayed an Adafruit Industries component while discussing the possibility that an Isis bomb might have brought down the aircraft. Adafruit is an open-source hardware company that sells Arduino, […]
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Arduino releases version 1.6.6 of their IDE software, adding new tools and features for programming Arduino-compatible microcontrollers.
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Makeblock founder, Jasen Wang, talks about the growing role of the Maker Movement in China.
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For Connor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, designing a brain-computer interface is not the stuff of science fiction, it is their day job.
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