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Sconic Sections in the Wild 25 Aug 2013 | 08:38 am
Our friend John made Sconic Sections for a dinner party, with a slight variation: he baked the scone dough in ice cream cones. That led to a little bit of extra difficulty in slicing them, but the con...
Roundup: Simple LED Projects 23 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am
We’ve put together a roundup of our simplest LED projects; easy things to put together mostly with a bare LED and a coin cell. Pictured above, Basics: Simple LED Pumpkins How to hack LEDs into Le...
Automated Mechanical Maze Solver 21 Aug 2013 | 07:38 am
Over on buildsmartrobots, Sai posted about a mechanical maze solving project. He uses an EBB (the same controller board we use on the Eggbot and the WaterColorBot) to control a couple of steppers to t...
A few seconds of Octolively on vine 18 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
Alex Ray (@machinaut) has been playing with our Octolively open source interactive LED kits and says, “Physical computing interfaces are fun.”
Papercraft Seven Segment Clock 17 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
Instructables user alstroemeria has lovingly documented a clock build inspired by the D/A Clock by Alvin Aronson. Each of the paper segments is moved in or out by a servo motor to make the mechanical...
Nicely done, Amazon 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Amazon today decided to remind me about some of our past projects through book recommendations. We contributed a bunch of projects to The Hungry Scientist Handbook and were interviewed for Cooking for...
WaterColorBot at Kickstarter: One Day Left 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The Kickstarter campaign for Super Awesome Sylvia’s WaterColorBot is almost at a close, with just 24 hours remaining; it winds up tomorrow (Thursday) morning, at 7 AM eastern time. So, if you haven’t...
Laser Marking with Moly 13 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
A low power CO2 laser cutter (like the one that we use) is fantastic for cutting and engraving wood, fabric, paper, and plastics. It’s also great for engraving painted or otherwise surface coated meta...
Inside the ULN2003 12 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
Over at ZeptoBars, they have an incredibly detailed “take-apart” post on what’s inside the ULN2003 seven channel Darlington driver chip. The ULN2003 is commonly used for driving LED displays—you can f...
Three Little Upgrades to the WaterColorBot 9 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
Even while the Kickstarter campaign for our WaterColorBot is in full swing, we’re continuing to improve its hardware design. Here are a select few of the refinements we have made since the last revisi...
