It seems [Andrew] is an up as well as coming historian for the world of 3D printing. We’ve seen him interview the creator of Slic3r, however this time around he’s headed over to Eindhoven, Netherlands to interview the neighborhood manager for Shapeways, [Bart Veldhuizen]. Unlike the RepRaps, Ultimkers, as well as Makerbots, Shapeways is an completely different…
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When makers take to designing furniture for their own home, the results are spectacular. For their senior style project, [Phillip Murphy] as well as his teammates set about building a wise table from the ground up. Oh, as well as you can likewise utilize it to play games, demonstrated in the video below. The table…
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Dr. Gavin Miller has been investigating snake robots for over ten years. His first models, S1 and S2, use one servo at each joint. S3 used a pair of servos to create a sidewinding motion along with the more common horizontal undulations. S4 was an attempt to power the snake with just one motor, but…
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[Jerry] lost his finger in an mishap as well as has considering that added a prosthetic USB flash drive in its place. It’s making the very best of a poor situation; there’s nothing wrong with a bit voluntary cyborgization. At least it’s not as invasive as a few of the implants we’ve seen before. UPDATE:…
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We would wager that most of the home etched PCB projects we see around here use the toner transfer method. but the next most popular technique is to use photosensitive ink which resists the etching acid once it has been exposed to light. most people buy what are called pre-sensitized boards, but you can also…
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MP3 took off in the late 90s as the digital music format. It then proceeded to slaughter the CD, and launch the file sharing revolution as well. It’s a pleased format that has roots stretching all the way back to the early 1980s, when the possibility of sending music over ISDN lines was first considered. now the…
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[Adrian] utilizes his Canon 40D rather commonly in dark or low-light situations, as well as discovered the onboard auto focus help performance to be a bit frustrating. In specific focus modes, the auto focus help light is programmed to turn off when focus has been achieved. He noticed that if his subject moves or the…
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[Roo] seems to believe we’ve been neglecting the NSLU2 or “slug”. It’s true we have spent a great deal of time fawning over the Linksys WRT54G instead. The slug is absolutely deserving of interest though. It is a little network appliance with two USB ports that you are meant to connect disk drives to for…
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many of us have Ethernet in our homes today. The real backbones of the Internet though, use no wires at all. Optical fibers carry pulses of light across the land, under the sea, and if you’re lucky, best to your door. [Sven Brauch] chose to create an optical link. He didn’t have any fiber handy, but…
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This hack has got to be every gamer’s dream. someone actually took the time to dig through the binary file of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and fix the errors that made it an abomination of a title for the Atari 2600. This is quite a feat in numerous ways. first off, you need to know the game…
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