Maker Stefano Guglielmetti recently brought to our attention a capacitive sensor-controlled, LED skull lamp that’ll make for quite the spook-tacular decoration for your next All Hallow’s Eve festivities. Powered by an ATtiny85 MCU, his artisanal skull project is a perfect blend of fun and humor with a touch of DIY. The idea of this hack came shortly after Guglielmetti’s first encounter with […]
…Continued from Interview with Mitch Altman (Part 1)… Tom Vu: What is the Hackerspace in Residence Program? Why is this important? Mitch Altman: Let me start by giving some background… Over the past decade, thousands of designers, engineers, artists, programmers, crafters, scientists, cooks, musicians, tinkerers, and the otherwise curious, have gathered at hackerspaces (sometimes also […]
“If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious shh….” While the DeLorean may have been the most iconic part of Back to the Future’s time-traveling machine, we can’t forget the flux capacitor, Mr. Fusion and of course, the future time circuit display, that made it all possible. Paying homage […]
So, what exactly is the Maker Movement? Do you remember that ever so distant yet memorable quote by Michelangelo? “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” Now, to further set this, [white fuzz] the channel just switched, we are tuned. Things will change […]
In this feature of Bits & Pieces, I interview one of the original forefathers of hackerspaces. Mitch is one of the original co-founders of the infamous spaces named Noisebridge in San Francisco — which later became a exemplary model for others around the world. Mitch exemplifies the persona of a hardware hacker, who not only knows […]
Maker Daniel Sanz has put together this funky MIDI controller that employs conductive ink and a few capacitive sensors to produce sounds. The DIY nature of this design makes the possibilities for musical creation endless! Sanz is a member Music Technology Group (MTG) at University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona and devised this project for his Interactive […]
A little boy in Hawaii born without fingers got a robotic hand thanks to 3D printing. According to KHON 2 News, three-year-old Rayden Kahae is a happy and loving child, but the boy they call “Bubba” has always been different from the rest of the neighborhood kids in Wailuku. “Bubba” was born with the rare condition amniotic […]
In a laboratory setting, precision is essential. When heating up liquids, being even a degree off could spell ruin for an experiment. Therefore, Maker BrittLiv developed a DIY programmable heating pad that can run intricate temperature ramps – for only $100! As a chemical and biological engineering student, BrittLiv was priced out of the market for most […]
Does the back of your TV set look like a messy rat’s nest? With the cable box, Blu-Ray player and video game console plugged in, the last thing you would want to do is add another device to increase the clutter. That’s where INOVATEK Electronics‘ latest project comes in… The AmbiLED HD — which recently made […]
Our friends over at Bare Conductive recently teamed with Jude Pullen of Design Modelling to develop a trendy boombox that perfectly demonstrates the widespread capabilities of their Atmel powered Touch Board. As displayed inside our Maker Faire Bay Area booth earlier this summer, the Touch Board houses an ATmega32u4 processor clocked at 16 MHZ running at 5V — the same as […]
