video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFppXL0Ov8
Here’s a simple flying saucer oven that uses a single light bulb yet heats up to 425 degrees fahrenheit!
They won the Dorkbake competition. This is really simple but great idea!
Eric and Jodi Kurland Eric is an award-winning filmmaker and digital artist whose films have played in festivals around the world. Jodi is a physical therapist and self-published photographer and author known to dabble in crafts.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_HRLe6ga8
Check out these Cool ALAVs (Autonomous Light Vessels) by Jed Berk! Tight! It uses Sun Microsystems SunSpot microcontroller, which can be programmed in Java. I like this idea since there’s a lot of Java embedded processors out there but this ones from the creators. Jed tells me that all the pieces were 3D designed on the computer and laser-cut, kinda cool~ 🙂
Jed says,
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU742dF86EE
Check out the Light Orb. Remember we had a post about the Light Orb way back? It’s cool to see it in real life. Maker faire rules.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgmw6yuo5YA
Wow, there’s so much cool stuff here at Maker Faire such as this cool balancing bot. It’s so big and there’s so much stuff, I don’t think you can see everything in one day. Phew…
Hey we are live at the Maker Faire, blogging live! See our automated camera that follows people? Well, it’s a $160 Logitech camera we got in a hurry at Best Buy last night just before the store closed. Glad we got it working although the internet here sucks sometimes. Anyway, our booth is really popular! 🙂
Garrett is doing a great job with the crowd while I am hiding in the back. (Why am I hiding? Blogging of course!)
Hi there, we are at the Maker Faire! I got hands on one of automatic webcams that follow people. Check it out! It took me awhile to hook up some internet. For some reason, I couldn’t hook up to the free internet here. BUT I got my Sprint Samsung IP-830W to work as a cellular modem. Hopefully, the live videos stream good on it. (My phone is a life-saver! 🙂 )
Update: We
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9VTfzYiOQg
Here’s a very simple wireless keyless entry DIY using some relays and stuff, very similar to the Wiimote Door Unlocker.
The mechanism is simple enough, just a momentary button on the panel in my apartment, but the mess of wires in the wall is a little unsettling. I took some meter readings of the terminals and sorted out the door button wiring
Wow, check out this cool DIY on how to make a rotating LCD! This IS very useful for reading PDFs and whatnot. If you don’t want to make one or you are about buy a new LCD, there’s also bunch of LCDs out there that already rotates. (which I use at work) CNET has a great review of rotating LCDs.
This fixture is very usefull for rotate 90 degrees the monit
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07PBSjExN2Y
Cool, we are looking forward to Maker Faire for cool steam tanks like this!
So what do you do after you’ve made a bunch of steam powered r/c tanks? Well you try making a steam turbine tank of course! Making a steam turbine r/c machine has sort of been one of my Holy Grails, but there are many issues with steam turbines, that made it difficult for me to tackle on the project.
