5 Million LEGO Brick Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter

Thirty-two builders took 5.3m LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to assemble this X-wing starfighter, unveiled yesterday in NYC's Times Square. It will be on view there for a few more days before heading to California for permanent install at LEGOLAND.

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Tyler™s Maker Faire Robot Tattoo

At Maker Faire Bay Area last weekend, a group of editors were talking about the “maker tattoos” feature we’re working on for MAKE Volume 35, and someone wondered aloud when we might see the first iconic Maker Faire robot tattoo. Then, two days later, lo and behold, Instagram user @maiden_merica […]

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Maker Faire: One Maker™s Perspective

A timelapse of one maker's Maker Faire experience.

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New Project: DIY 3D Laser Scanner Using Arduino

The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and distance shoots a series of images. With some trigonometry considerations and optic laws it is relatively easy to reconstruct the Zeta dimension, the measurement of the distance between the object and the camera.

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Controlling LEDs with Charlieplexing

MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of "Charlieplexing," a method for controlling multiple LEDs without the use of multiple microcontroller pins. With charlieplexing you can turn on or off one LED at a time. To light more than one LED at a time, you can scan the LEDs by turning a sequence of them on and off really fast.

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Sign up now for Maker Training Camps

Today, we offer you a new way of learning: Maker Training Camps. Training Camps are collaborative online courses specifically designed to make it easier to learn a new skill or build a specific project. Camps use Google hangouts and communities to make it easy to work with other students and teachers. Camps are generally between one and five weeks in length with a lecture, a project and optional office hours each week.

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Aaron Vanderwerff Named śInspirational Teacher of the Yearť

Oakland's Lighthouse Community Charter School is turning out some great young makers. If you attended Maker Faire this past week you might have run into Lighthouse students displaying a solar-powered scooter. (It started out as a go kart, but someone stole the chassis) and an EV truck project. The school's teachers are no slouches either. This week one of the students' instructors, Aaron Vanderwerff, was named "inspirational teacher of the year"

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Mister Gloves “ A Wireless USB Gesture Input System

śMister Gloves is a wireless USB gesture input system that enables a person to use a computer by performing intuitive hand and finger motions in the air. While wearing a glove controller on the right hand, the user can move the cursor by forming a pointing gesture and click by curling the index finger or

Cheap Cabel/Wire Tester

This is a very simple yet very useful little gadget. Anyone can make it for 1$(or less). This is really good for beginners and it can help you troubleshoot. Yes you can buy one ore use the multimeter, but whats the fin in that? Parts you will need 1x 3 volt battery pack 1x Light Emitting Diodes (...By: R4MP4G3RXDContinue Reading »

Most Awesome Tube Radio

I got this old tube radio off of Craigslist a little over a year ago. The case was pretty bad, the lady I got it from said it had been left out in a old school bus in the desert for some time. That story was a new one for me but I figured I could restore this old thing. Eventually I got time to mess...By: Sparker94Continue Reading »

'lovely one with 555.........make your girl friend feel special...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOS4EvS7yXI By: sumeet.baruaContinue Reading »

555 on demand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPO5_yn_FM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdkqwCUqMY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOS4EvS7yXI please view this for info. it was made for someone special....little bit of electronics and craft made it possible..... (Components : ic555, l293de, relay , a moto...By: sumeet.baruaContinue Reading »

Tamagotchi ROM dump and reverse engineering

Often the true key to success is persistence and that holds true for this project which dumped the ROM from the current generation of Tamagotchi toys. If you™re a fan of learning the secrets built into consumer electronics ” and you know we are ” you™ll want to go back and watch the 24-minute lecture on Tamagotchi hacking which ¦ Read the rest

3W handheld laser raises hope for a real Lightsaber someday

That banner image may seem a little bit theatric, but it™s a good representation of what this 3W handheld laser can really do. Turn the thing on in a slightly smoky room and it looks exactly like a thin beam Lightsaber.

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Radio Controlled Tank With a Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Really cool Raspberry Pi project from Paul Herron: Heng Long Tiger tank with a Raspberry Pi installed. I followed Ian Renton™s build. Original image source here! Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit, be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Have you tried the new śAdafruit Raspberry Pi

The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking motorcycle

The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking machine. There™s something unusual about the motorcycle Denis Andzakovic likes to ride¦ Kitted out with a miniature Raspberry Pi computer for a heads-up display (HUD) integrated in an external helmet, two Mikrotik routers, wireless sniffing and attack tools, GPS and a netbook, the motorcycle is able to detect wireless access points

NEW PRODUCT – WS2811 LED Driver Chip – 10 Pack

NEW PRODUCT “ WS2811 LED Driver Chip “ 10 Pack. Make your own smart LEDs with the same chip that is used in our NeoPixel strip and pixels. This tiny SOIC-8 is fairly easy to solder and can drive a single common-anode RGB LED or three single-color LEDs of your choice. (The outputs are NPN

NEW PRODUCT – WS2812 5050 RGB LED with Integrated Driver Chip – 10 Pack

NEW PRODUCT “ WS2812 5050 RGB LED with Integrated Driver Chip “ 10 Pack. Make your own smart LED arrangement with the same integrated LED that is used in our NeoPixel strip and pixels. This tiny 5050 (5mm x 5mm) RGB LED is fairly easy to solder and is the most compact way possible to

NEW PRODUCT – S-Video Cable – 9 feet

NEW PRODUCT “ S-Video Cable “ 9 feet. This basic cable comes with two S-Video MiniDIN-4 connectors. It™s fairly straight forward, you™ll commonly need these to connect two S-Video devices together. Works great with the Uzebox kit when you want better quality than Composite. Cable is 9 ft long. In stock and shipping now.

Chris Anderson “ From a Writer to CEO of 3DRobotics

Chris Anderson “ From a Writer to CEO of 3DRobotics “ Hack Things “ We help software people make hardware. You might recognize Chris Anderson as a world renowned journalist. Former editor-in-chief atWired, author of The Long Tail, and recent author of Makers, he has traded in his pen to become CEO of 3D Robotics,

NEW PRODUCT – LPC810 Mini Starter Pack

NEW PRODUCT “ LPC810 Mini Starter Pack. If you love the speed and simplicity of ARM Cortex M0+ chips, but want to just dip a toe in, you™ll fall in love with the adorable little LPC810. This particular chip in DIP8 really jumped out at us since it™s so different than what people usually think

Tutorial: Getting Started with the LPC810 @ The Adafruit Learning System

Tutorial: Getting Started with the LPC810 @ The Adafruit Learning System. This learning guide will show you everything you need to know to get started with the ARM Cortex M0+ based LPC810 MCU. It will cover: Setting up a cross-compiling toolchain for ARM Creating and compiling your first blinky program Programming the LPC810 using free

Heart Matrix in 6 Seconds #showandtell #adafruit6secs

Check out Heart Matrix in 6 Seconds by LucidTronix a short 6 second film for the Adafruit #adafruit6secs electronic film festival (Youtube playlist here for all the entries on YouTube).

Kickstarter and the view from the trenches of TechShop

Kickstarter and the view from the trenches of TechShop @ PandoDaily. Dehmlow says Kickstarter has even transformed the TechShop. He started to notice the difference about a year ago, when the scope of the projects came a lot bigger. The workshop™s clientele falls into three evenly divided categories: people from existing companies experimenting with new

Pidora: An Optimized Fedora Remix for Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Fedora Remix for RPi: Pidora is a Fedora Remix optimized for the Raspberry Pi computer. Download link here.