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REVOLVE // A hardware-less coffee table. I wanted the shape of this object to be relatively basic because the slicing process created by the program would be enough of a feature to draw you in.

I also needed to have the design done pretty fast because Paul and I only had a couple days to see this project through. I hit the internet for inspiration and came across the Kitaj, a side table by Rodolfo Dordoni. I wanted to make something a bit bigger and decided to convert this shape into a coffee table. Paul also needed a table for his office (his previous one made by a well known swedish manufacturer may have finally given out because he fell victim to the 'they gave us extra hardware' myth). We landed on the dimensions of 36" x 36" x 22". A Raspberry Pi controlled mini CNC Laser engraver [last update Jan 18,2014] I recently made a mini CNC laser engraver using two DVD drives salvaged from old computers and <$10 extra parts bought on eBay.

The controller of the CNC machine is a Raspberry Pi, a $35 credit card size computer. The engraver turns out to be pretty successful. So I am sharing it with everyone. There have been a lot of examples people using Arduino to control CNCs. The Raspberry Pi High Definition Photobooth. When I created a photobooth with the netbook to take pictures at my wedding, I needed to carry the netbook as well as all the camera equipment on the overseas flight to Poland.

I had minimized it as much as I could, but it was still a lot to travel with. I wanted to try and do something similar but go much smaller and use a Raspberry Pi instead of the netbook to eliminate as much of the weight as I could. Sing-a-long Song Devocalizer. In the “off” position, the center-off switch should cause the vocal canceling effect.

Switching it to one side should give you a normal stereo signal; switching it to the other side activates the SPDT switch, allowing you to choose between full-right channel and full-left channel effects. Pick an older song (1960s or so) for your first test run. Many of the older songs are mixed with center vocals and isolated instruments in each channel, which works particularly well. Weekend Projects - Vinyl Digitizer Phono Preamp. Circuit Stickers. Circuit stickers are peel-and-stick electronics for crafting circuits.

Use them to add electronics to any sticker-friendly surface: paper, fabric, plastic, the sky's the limit! Amateur Scientist: Experimenting with Light and Dark Sensors. This project first appeared in MAKE Volume 38, on pages 94–95.

Robotics, manufacturing, intruder detection, and signaling. These are just a few of the applications for electronic circuits that detect the presence or absence of light. Dark-activated nightlights and street lamps are among the most common applications. So are infrared remote control receivers. A wide variety of semiconductor light sensors is readily available and you can quickly learn to use them by plugging simple circuits into a solderless breadboard. NYC Resistor: Inside Hackerspaces - Jan 2014 (Hertz & Lindtner)

Instagram. Open-source Lab. Open-Source Lab, 1st Edition: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs[edit] Free content[edit] FREE access to select content from Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs.

This guide details the development of the free and open-source hardware revolution and provides you with step-by-step instructions on building your own laboratory hardware. In the first two chapters displayed here, the author defines the basic terms of open-source software and discusses the rise of the open-source hardware revolution and how it impacts science before exploring five pragmatic advantages to joining the open-source scientific community for both your research in general, and most importantly, your equipment and instrumentation.

Key Features[edit] Description[edit] Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Scientific Research Costs details the development of the free and open-source hardware revolution. Examples[edit] NYC Maker Week in Full Effect. Last year at World Maker Faire New York, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he was designating the week before World Maker Faire New York to be Maker Week.

Similar to Fashion Week, we makers have a week to program and celebrate all things maker-related in New York City. Hooray! This year, with our World Maker Faire New York taking place this upcoming weekend, September 21 and 22, at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, we’re thrilled to see a solid lineup of maker-centric events scheduled for this week. Jars of Glowing Spirits. Glowing spirits aside, this project can be described in a single line: "A 9-volt battery powering a pulsating circuit that drives a UV LED to illuminate fluorescent-dyed water in a spray-painted mason jar.

" Circuit components: • 3cm x 7cm double-sided blank PCB [USD12 for 20pcs from eBay] • 0.5W 30000mcd 8mm 5-chip straw hat UV LED [USD34 for 50pcs from eBay] • Resistors 2.2kΩ 1/4W, 4.1Ω 1/4W, 100Ω 1/2W • Capacitor 1.5mF 10V • BC337 transistor • 555-timer IC • DIP8 IC socket • N/O reed switch • Strong rare-earth magnet • 9V battery connector • 9V battery • Wires & soldering kit Other materials: • Wildfire’s Luminescent Water Dyes [USD28 for 5 0.2oz bottles from Blacklight.com] • Frosted glass spray [from Home Depot] • Gold spray paint [from Home Depot] • Wide-mouth mason jar with 3-1/8" opening • Ziploc freezer bag With that long parts list, what you end up with is an innocent looking jar filled with a coloured liquid.

NaCade - The Naked Raspberry Pi Arcade Machine. The brains of this setup is the Raspberry Pi computer.

It's not overly powerful by today's standards but it can run early style games and systems pretty well. It's small size and low power consumption makes it ideal for many different uses. Ambient Backscatter—wireless comms out of thin air. Using ambient backscatter, these devices can interact with users and communicate with each other without using batteries. They exchange information by reflecting or absorbing pre-existing radio signals. One of the things holding back a more widespread push towards the Internet of Things — making everyday objects smarter and network connected — is battery technology. Computing power, and lately storage capacity, have increased and are still increasing exponentially. However battery technology has lagged behind. A Touchless 3D Tracking Interface. Ice Cube-Unread Email Counter. Ice Cube-Unread Email Counter. Mini Arduino enviroment monitor. The paper theremin. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Sean Orlando — blog.makezine.

Oakland, Calif. -based artist, fabricator, project manager, and creative director Sean Orlando is not only a gifted visionary in the realm of large-scale installations, but he is a skilled organizer, leading 50+ member crews of talented folks on such notable creations as the 40-foot-tall Raygun Gothic Rocketship, the otherworldly Nautilus Submarine (both of which have awed crowds at Maker Faire), and the surreal Steampunk Tree House. Orlando is co-founder of the Five Ton Crane art collective, public programs production coordinator at the Exploratorium, is currently an artist fellow at the de Young Museum, and has been running his own business, Engineered Artworks, since 2006. One project you’re particularly proud of:1. I am proud of all the projects that Five Ton Crane and I have worked on over the years, but I am particularly proud of the Nautilus Submarine art car.

10 Hot New Boards to Watch. The Monday Jolt is a column about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE every Monday. Over the last few months there have been a sudden rush of new micro-controller boards onto the market. A lot of that is down to Kickstarter and the appearance of a number slightly tweaked Arduino clones. A lot of them feature some sort of mesh networking, or other wireless capability, much like Arduino’s latest board the Yún, and some are more interesting or more radical than others. Here’s ten new boards that have just arrived, or are coming to market real soon, that you should maybe think about for your next project. 1. Recently announced at Maker Faire Bay Area by Massimo. Sony, Lego team up to create programmable, interactive Lego bricks.

A newly revealed partnership seeks to bring the interactivity of Sony's video games to the world of Lego's physical bricks and characters. At a 25th anniversary open house for Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Japan , the companies showed off Toy Alive, a prototype project that uses simple Lego bricks with embedded microchips that can be controlled with a PC or a DualShock gamepad. The Toy Alive team is currently showing off a tiny, remote-controlled platform that can be controlled with a DualShock gamepad to play a chase game monitored by a webcam and computer software. Sony, Lego team up to create programmable, interactive Lego bricks. How-To: Grow Super Hot Ghost Chilis.

There’s no better way to spice up your garden than growing one of the world’s hottest chili peppers: Bhut Jolokia, otherwise known as the ghost chili. In 2007, the ghost chili was certified as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce and 125 times hotter than the spiciest jalapeño. (The current world record goes to the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.) It’s so hot that in 2009 India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation announced plans to use the peppers in hand grenades. Before you get carried away, though, the ghost chili can be used for peaceful, tasty purposes too. Conductive Paint Liquidity Lamps. Irish designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating made these innovative lamps using Bare Conductive‘s nontoxic electrically conductive Bare Paint suspended in oil for the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair.

Seventeen Sneaky Secret Hides. DIY Hacks & How To’s: Get Emergency Power from a Phone Line. Interview with Artist and Roboticist Giles Walker. British scrap artist and roboticist Giles Walker has been making provocative art robots and kinetic sculptures for over 20 years. Voice-Activated Instruments at NYC’s Clocktower Gallery. Perennial music maker and sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar will be exhibiting The Singing Room for one week only in May at NYC’s Clocktower Gallery. The Singing Room is a place for anyone to sing freely, and in public.

DIY.org Loves Cardboard. Maker Pro Newsletter. “To not be amazed is to be numb to the technology of our day.” From the editors of MAKE magazine, The Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, innovators, along with technology and market trends. Please send items to us at makerpro@makermedia.com. Teardown of the TI SensorTag. Last time I was up in Rhode Island my good friend Brian Jepson pushed a small red box into my hands with the words, “…try this, you’ll love it.” I immediately started looking for the blue pill. Arduino Uno vs BeagleBone vs Raspberry Pi. The Monday Jolt is a new column about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE every Monday morning. This post was written by Roger Meike and appeared on the Digital Diner on October 24, 2012. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Christian Ristow.

How-To: Finger-Gesture Lock Box. Want to ditch that combination lock and bring your lock box into the 21st century? Cloud Shield, Twine's Gateway To The Full-Blown Internet Of Things. The Aesthetics of Mechanical Power. Raspberry Pi in an N64 Case. Sir Mix-a-Bot, the Robot Bartender. Component of the Month: Resistors. Skate Guitars Rip. The Maker Revolution. Old Horns Transformed into iPhone Amplifiers.

Inspiration for the Raspberry Pi Design Contest – Win a Printrbot Jr.! Air Quality Egg - $185.00 : WickedDevice, Fun electronics kits and more. Airqualityegg - AirQualityEgg. (99+) #AirQualityEgg. Air Quality Egg. Basic Arduino Connections Quick Reference Guide. So You Have a Raspberry Pi… Now What? The Man with a Train Car in His Basement. Happy Pi Day from the Maker Shed! Enter Your Project in the First Raspberry Pi Design Contest. Busy Retiree’s Filament Extruder Wins Fabrication Competition. Making Music, Teaching English with Popsicle Sticks.

Hacking on the Frontier of Gestural Input. Maker Pro Newsletter. Hacking My Vagina : scanlime. Body Hacks: Building An Open-Source, Theremin-Like Vibrator. Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. MAKE Asks: Fantasy Cybernetic Implants. How Makers, Hackers, and Entrepreneurs Can Save the U.S. Postal Service. Teen Creates 3D Printed, Brain-Powered Prosthetic Arm. Teen Launches Hello Kitty into Space. Steampunk Lamp: The Eye of Ra. TempBug: internet-connected thermometer. 10 Things To Do When Starting a Fab Lab. MAKE Asks: Books that Inspire you to Make. Want to Start a Makerspace at School? Tips to Get Started. Sparkle Labs. New Release : Discover Arduino Bundle. Squarebit. AVR Microcontrollers, tutorials, boards and more from Protostack. スイッチサイエンス/TOPページ. ‎sparklelabs.com/index_store.php#Papertronics%20-%20LunarModules. Lunar Guidance Module : Rudolph. Math Monday: Linkages – One Last Spin. Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack. The Monday Jolt: Bricktronics Expands the Possibilities of Lego.

One author’s Kickstarter experience. iCufflinks. Mini Maker Faire Action: Vegas! Tool Tales: The Case of the Rattling Awl. Yellow Drum Machine.