LEVITATING LIGHTBULB DOES it all with no WIRES
It would be really fun to do an entire hallway of these levitating wireless lights. This a project on which [Chris Rieger] has been working for about six months. It uses magnetic levitation and wireless power transfer to create a really neat LED oddity. Levitation is managed by a permanent magnet on the light assembly…
ELECTRONICS THAT CAN manage THE pressure
Deep-sea exploration is considered as a relatively new area of research and the electronics involved has to be special in buy to survive some of the deepest parts of the ocean. pressure Tolerant electronics is a new subject and has its own challenges as explained by [Nic Bingham] of the Schmidt ocean Institute. [Nic Bingham] was…
MAKERFAIRE K.C. KANSAS CITY HACKERSPACE DELIVERS
The Kansas City Hammerspace crowd truly brought an fantastic amount of stuff this year. Some stuff you’ve already seen, some stuff that is absolutely new. I’ll be sharing details on a few of them individually as they truly should have the attention. Their booth, or booths were huge, taking up approximately 1/3 of the primary hall.…
LASER SURGERY: broadening THE BED OF A affordable CHINESE LASER CUTTER
Don’t you just dislike it when you spend less than $400 on a 40-watt laser cutter as well as it turns out to have a work area the size of a sheet of copy paper? [Kostas Filosofou] sure did, however rather than stick keeping that restricted work envelope, he customized his affordable K40 laser cutter so…
PCBS WITH POWDER coat
The toner transfer technique of PCB production should be a essential in every maker’s bag of tricks. That being said, it’s a far from suitable option with a great deal of things that can go wrong, spoiling hours of work. [Ryan] believes he has a much better option up his sleeve, still utilizing warm triggered…
PRINTING AN ASTON MARTIN DB4
With 3D printers finding their way into the workshops of makers the world over, it was bound to happen sooner or later. [Ivan Sentch] is making an Aston Martin DB4 with a 3D printer. Before we board the hype train, let’s discuss what this is project is not: [Ivan] isn’t making any metal parts with his…
GO portable WITH GAMECUBE advance SP
Off the hop, we love portable consoles. To be clear, we don’t just mean handhelds like the 3DS, or RetroPie builds, but when a maker takes a home console from generations past and hacks a childhood fantasy into reality — that’s amore. So, it’s only natural that [Bill Paxton]’s GameCube re-imagined as a game boy…
THE most significant very HEXAGON fan
For those who haven’t addicted themselves to very Hexagon yet, it’s pretty… addicting, to say the least. typically this 80’s arcade-style game would run in a browser but some of the people at Club de Jaqueo in Buenos Aires chose to cram all of that into an Arduino. They didn’t stop there, though, and thought that…
TWO interesting BOARDS COMING DOWN THE pipe
Hey, it’s a hardware twofer! Here’s two platforms coming down the pipe: First up is the Mimo Dreamplug, the current in a continued expansion of choices for very tiny, single-board Linux computers. The Dreamplug must be very capable of just about any type of task you can throw at it. With a 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU,…
HACK A DAY’S entry into THE RED BULL development contest
We had tons of ideas, however the one that seemed a lot of feasible, as well as had the least probability of triggering mortal injury, was this. We produced a red bull introducing mortar system. The cans are introduced as well as a parachute deploys to bring them down to the excited people below safely.…