Collaborate Disseminate
Soldering is one of those jobs that are conceptually simple enough, but there’s quite a bit of devil in the detail and having precisely the right tool for the job …read more Continue reading A 3-tool selector box for a JBC soldering station
There was a point in time, excruciatingly brief, in which desktop computers often had a large “TURBO” button on their front panel. Some even featured an LCD that would indicate …read more Continue reading 486 Gets Animated Turbo Button Thanks to Arduino
Stewart platforms are pretty neat, and not seen in the wild all that often, perhaps because there aren’t a vast number of hacker-friendly applications that need quite this many degrees …read more Continue reading An Interesting Circular Stewart Platform
Well, here it is: a shoe-in for the new world’s largest NERF gun. (Video, embedded below.) The Guinness people haven’t shown up yet to award [Michael Pick], but at 12.5 …read more Continue reading Giant Working NERF Gun Runs on Tiny Arduino
One way of communicating with autistic and non-verbal people is through the use of a Picture Exchange Communication System or PECS board, which they can use to point out what …read more Continue reading DIY PECS Board Uses Pictures to Communicate
The past year has been quite a ride for everyone on Earth. But you never know which day is going to be your last, so you might as well live …read more Continue reading Sunlight-Based Life Clock Predicts Your Darkest Hour
Playing the guitar requires speed, strength, and dexterity in both hands. Depending on your mobility level, rocking out with your axe might be impossible unless you could somehow hold down …read more Continue reading Auto Strummer Can Plectrum the Whole Flat-Strumming Spectrum
Don’t know about you, but over the last year or so, we have gone from spending ten or twelve hours a day at this computer to upwards of sixteen or eighteen. Fortunately there’s a window behind the monitor for taking …read more
Farkle is a classic dice game that only requires 6 dice and a way to write down scores based on the numbers rolled. Even so, this type of game isn’t inherently portable — it would be fairly difficult to play …read more
For some reason, when slot machines went digital, they lost their best feature — the handle. Who wants to push a button on a slot machine, anyway? Might as well just play video poker. [John Bradnam] seems to agree, and has built an open-source three-color matrix slot machine complete with …read more