There were quite a few 3D printers at the NC maker Faire this year (like the [Fablicator], several [RepRap]s, and [MakerBot]s) as well as a few subtractive machining devices including a wood lathe, a [ShopBot]…
While we have seen Kinect-based virtual dressing rooms before, the team at Arbuzz is taking a somewhat different approach (Translation) to the digital gown up game. rather than utilizing flat pictures of clothes superimposed on the…
This is an ongoing project to build a heliostat from a floppy drive. Heliostats are used by solar arrays to track the sun. This mod uses the main logic board to control the head stepper…
[devb] has been playing around with XESS FPGA boards for ages, as well as as long as he can remember, they have had built-in VGA interfaces. His newest acquisition, a XuLA FPGA board, doesn’t have…
It utilized to be a major rite of passage for a hardware hacker to obtain an oscilloscope. up until recently, new instruments were seldom in typical people’s budgets, so you most likely made finish with…
here [Matthew Br] describes the situation he’s in with the neighbors that share this wall of his apartment. When they listen to music they like it loud and so he gets to ‘enjoy’ the experience…
Lathes can be big, powerful, harmful machines. but in some cases there’s a call for making very small parts out of soft materials, like plastic and wood. For jobs like this, you could use something like this…
[Korben] is utilizing a photo frame as a Bluetooth speaker (translated). He hacked a Rock’R² for this project. It’s a gadget that has a vibrating aspect which can be utilized to make any type of hollow product into…
From tea sets to CD box sets, you’ll see the work of the Phillips siblings mill on shelves all across the country. They make wooden boxes for just about any type of product imaginable. Interestingly,…
Let’s face it, times are hard, and winter is imminent in the northern hemisphere. No matter how much you have to your name, there’s nothing like a cup of hot tea or a warm meal…