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 bunch of cool projects including the DIY coffee roaster among other cool stuff… They have a
Here’s how to make a USB charging flashlight. But you can probably make this work for many other devices that run 5V including MP3 players, cellphones, whatever it is. Just don’t complain if you try to power something less than 5V and blow it up… 🙂
After reviewing the Forever Flashlight for The Gadget Panel I couldn’t help but take it
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0bohCAVLew
One of the characteristics of a successful natural interface is the reduction of cognitive load on people interacting with it: from a presentation perspective, the form of the representation of content is designed to minimize this amount, by reducing the number and the complexity of the stimuli, and allowing a straightforward interpretation of the whole perceived by the subject; from an interaction perspective, this is done by allowing people
The other day, we decided to check out web stats. Above is a snapshot of our blog traffic since we started on August 14th, 2006.
We want to thank Phillip Torrone for all the blog posts and it was his Make blog that got us started in the first place.
Also all thanks also go to all the other blogs and websites that helped us get more traffic and keep going:
Check out voltmeter and ammeter LCD panel you can make using an Atmel8 MCU. Tight!
This multimeter was designed to measure output voltage and current in a PSU, where the current sense shunt resistor is connected in series with load at the negative voltage rail. It needs only one supply voltage that can be acquired from main PSU. An additional function of the multimeter is that
Check out this cool laser tester DIY. Very complicated but good source of information if you are into laser testing equipment.
The laser beam spot is the tool in laser welding cutting. Industrial lasers are really great, but there’s a huge problem when it comes to knowing the state of your tool. I mean, in a normal milling machine the mill bit can visually be examined to see if a part of the edge is chipped off. But how does your beam spot look? How is your beam quality? You might have pretty good idea of how go
Tight, now doctors can give patients a recording of their heartbeating sounds saved to an ipod!
Capturing heart and lung sounds is the most critical aspect of stethoscope design. Acquire the sound accurately, and anything is possible. The patented Electromagnetic Diaphragm (EmD) is unique to a Thinklabs stethoscope, and is the key to audio quality.
Having captured an accurate signal, electronic signal transmission right to the eartips ensure
Check out this awesome 3D mouse you can build using some creative hacks!
I’ve been exploring 3D graphics using VVVV. One of the things you quickly learn when working in 3D is that doing anything with a 2D mouse is a pain. Particularly I found I was spending a lot of time shuffling the camera position which involves a tricky combination of keystrokes and mouse movements. I wanted to get a camera control that would allow me
video://www.metacafe.com/watch/392215/xbox_360_tilt_controller_phase_two/
video://www.metacafe.com/watch/395291/xbox_360_tilt_controller_finished/
Here’s a cool hack for your XBOX 360 if you want to make it like a Wii controller or a SixAxisController.
The accelerometer works by outputting varying voltages for varying accelerations. I will use a 3-axis accelerometer so it will output 3 varying voltages. I will use an analog-to-digital converter to get the signals into a micro controller. The micro controller will do the processing that determines how the controlle
