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I was at work trying to draw some stuff and Garrett came over with his USB Hid Portal device and plugged it into my USB hub (which was annoying at first) then suddenly my mouse started making circles on its own! So we decided to c ...
Tight, check out this really cool M&M Line Trace Robot! It’s awesome! They should sell these at M&M stores. (I recently bought a M&M sculpture for my dad’s birthday but this is even better!)
For the holidays, my local grocery store sold m&m’ ...
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Here’s a preview of our USB Portal Project we will be showcasing at Maker Faire 2007.
It’s basically a BASIC programmable USB device so you can connect embedded devices easily to ...
If you use Linux, you know Xeyes is a simple program that follows your mouse movements. You can check out some web examples of Xeyes. You can even paste this javascript code on your website for Xeyes on the web.
Anyway, Hunz created physical Xeyes that stands on his window a ...
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Oh, check out this cool DIY on how to build an inexpensive Hall Effect Gaussmeter! If you don’t want to build one, you can always buy a gaussmeter here.
Have you ever wanted to find ...
Check out some of the cool stuff and people that are going to be at the Maker Faire! (Including us but we have no idea what to bring…yet)
We will get to play with an electric giraff (hopefully) and meet with submarine maker Mike Wernecke.
You can get some tickets for the ...
Wow, check out this cool AVR ethernet weather station!
My original plan was to have sensors for temperature, air pressure and wind. I started a prototype and it worked very well except for the wind measurement part. I have written a separate article about it: wi ...
Here’s a good list of magazines that should help you get a feel for the engineering industry including application, products, and just for the hell of it.
(It’s also the ones we subscribe to regularly…)
(Click on the magazine to go to their homepage)
Make has ...
Check out this howto on doubling your battery life by replacing a linear voltage regulator (the thing that converts DC voltage, e.g. from 12V to 5V) to a switching regulator. Switching regulators are way more efficient than your typical off-the-shelve crappy regulators such as ...
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Here’s a really cool project using RFID to simulate a door lock or identification system of some sort.
The design is fairly straight forward, a custom circuit board links the BASIC Stam ...
