DIY
The Open Source RepRap Simpson 3D Printer Design Reduces Friction, Uses Less “Vitamins”
This is the Grounded Experimental Delta 3D printer aka the Simpson, a project built by computer science teacher Nicholas Seward that does away with the excess frames, pulleys, and hardware…
If You Watch One Daft Punk Remix Performed By Robots (And Jack Conte) Today, Make It This One
Jack Conte, musician and founder of Patreon, has been on a tear lately with a set of unique music remixes performed by him and a group of pneumatic robots that…
This Mechanical, 3D-Printed Entabulator Is An Amazing Tribute To The Power Of Clockwork
As a lover of all things mechanical, I’m in awe of Chris Fenton’s Entabulator. Using an old book on mechanical loom-making, a 3D printer, and some serious patience he engineered…
Makerbot Opens New 50,000-Square-Foot Factory In Brooklyn
Makerbot, the hardware darling that closed on a $10 million round of funding in 2011, has just announced that they will open their new factory and warehouse in Sunset Park,…
There are few things as satisfying – and dangerous – as burning through stuff with a laser. Drake Anthony AKA Sytropyro is a young man who enjoys making DIY lasers…
Here’s A Weekend Project For First-Time Tinkerers: Turn Your Converse Into A DIY Light Show
The weekend isn’t upon us just yet, but here’s a little project to tuck away for when the Sunday doldrums set in — the New York-based tinkerers/part suppliers at Adafruit…
Everyone’s favorite electronics hobby shop, Adafruit has posted instructions for building your own HAL 9000 replica out of a big red button, an Arduino board, and some cleverly cut plastic.…
Designer Builds 3D-Printed Headphones That Use No Manufactured Parts
If the whole of human knowledge were to be wiped out tomorrow, how would you recreate the consumer electronics industry so you can jam out to some rockin’ tunes? Why…
Kids DIY Game Creation App TinyTap Heads To iPhone, Launches Its Own App Store
TinyTap, a Tel Aviv-based platform that allows children to create their own mobile games and “playable” books, is now expanding from the iPad to the iPhone, as it also launches…
The BeagleBone Black Is A New Single-Board Computer That Can Brew Beer
While the Raspberry Pi is great for educating kids about computing, can it brew a mean beer? The BeagleBone Black can. Trevor Hubbard, an engineer at Texas Instruments, uses the…
Lithopanes are objects created to let light through to different degrees, allowing you to create a sort of greyscale image that is visible when the plate is placed against a…
Circuit Playground Is Adafruit’s Educational Series For Helping Kids Learn About Electronics
Adafruit, the DIY electronics website and marketplace, is espousing the popular strategy of “get em’ young” with a new live action short video series broadcast on YouTube. The series, called…
The Raspberry Pi Dynamic Headlight Can Tell You How Fast You’re Cycling
A Brooklynite named Matt Richardson has built a working prototype of a bicycle headlight that uses a Raspberry Pi to project his current traveling speed as he rides around the…
Be The Life Of The Cubicle Farm With A DIY Sound-Sensing Tie
When I used to work in Fairfax, Virginia as a computer consultant during the dot-com boom (actually I was a documentation specialist) we’d all go down to Pizza Hut for…
How A Teacher Turned To Technology To Solve A Thorny Problem And Raised $100K
The clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test…
Idle 3D printers are the bane of the creative class. That’s why MakeXYZ.com is so important. It is a service that helps you find 3D printers near you and request…
This Open-Source, Robotic Tentacle Will Haunt Your Dreams
In the underground world of robotic tentacle makers, there are two rules: 1) don’t talk about underground tentacle-making and 2) don’t talk about underground tentacle-making. Both of those rules have…
DIY R2-D2 Heels Are Perfect For Your Next Black Tie-Fighter Event
Fans of Star Wars can take their love of droids and kitten heels to the streets with this DIY Instructables project. Created by Mike Warren, an editor at the site,…
Just In Time For The Weekend, We Present The DIY LEGO Pancake Bot
If you only watch one video today, it should be this one. You will discover that it is footage of a DIY LEGO pancake maker which is, in my expert…
A French Artist Is Posting DIY Robot Parts So We Can Print Our Own Androids
Gael Langevin wants to give you a robot. The French artist is posting 3D printer files for a humanoid robot he’s building as he completes the various parts, allowing us…
If you’ve watched and enjoyed the program known as “The Good Doctor Who” in which an alien of some sort who flies around with his little, knobby robotic buddy (I’m…
DIY Mobile Website Creator bMobilized Adds Another $2.5 Million In Series A Funding
bMobilized, a New York-based mobile web startup offering small businesses a way to convert their existing websites into HTML5, mobile-optimized sites, has raised an additional $2.5 million in Series A…
Hey! Your Hexapod Is In My Hexcopter!
When we look back on the events that led up to the rise of our Robotic Overlords, I think this will be a day that will live in infamy. Some…
DIY: Make Your Own Solar-Powered Raspberry Pi FTP Server
In the pantheon of geek projects there are few things as potent as the creation of an FTP server. Rather than doing cool stuff like serving up web pages or…
New Arduino Esplora Provides A Ready-For-Gaming, Customizable, Open Source Video Game Controller
Arduino unveiled a new preassembled board today, one that includes a variety of sensors and controls already assembled, allowing aspiring game programmers to quickly and easily get up and running…
I’m Not Afraid Of 3D-Printed Guns
As someone who has been following the 3D printing revolution very closely, I’m convinced it will bring about a new industrial revolution. What that means – and where it will…
Body Hacks: Building An Open-Source, Theremin-Like Vibrator
For your postprandial pleasure I present the an open-source vibrator that you (or your partner) can play like a theremin. The story of how it came to be is pretty…
Gift Guide: DIY Marble Machine Kit
Keeping with my theme of DIY projects as gifts, I present to you this little treat, a laser-cut marble machine that comes to us via merry old England. While the…
Gift Guide: Solder: Time LED Watch Kit
Geek parents will get a huge kick out of the Solder:Time watch kit from Spikenzie Labs. It’s a cute kit that contains all the parts you need to make a…
Hacker Uses A Kinect To Help His Mom Email After A Stroke
Here’s a heartwarming story for a Hackathon Saturday: Chad Ruble’s mother suffers from aphasia due to a stroke. She hasn’t been able to use a keyboard for years because she…
