I got the chance to visit Inventables, maker of the ShapeOko 2 CNC milling machine, and talk with CEO, Zach Kaplan. They showed me the office, workshop, ware...
Inventables is one of those stores that I love on the internet. I have not bought anything from them, but then I am always fascinated by their inventory. Check out their site - www.inventables.com. This video is about what is inside inventables. Its totally awesome. They have an amazing set of tools to make stuff.
Follow the life of a SparkFun widget from a bare PCB all the way to your living room!
A very cool video on how spark fun makes their widgets. Must watch
http://element14.com/tbhs - Ben gives an in-depth tour of his Makerbot 3D Printer and provides some tips and tricks on successful 3D Printing. Find STL files...
Ben necks show on basics of 3d printing.
special camera to capture the invisible air movements From Science Channel's Cool Stuffs: How It works. Discovery Communications own the copyright of this cl...
Here is this really cool video explaining Schlieren photography. You will find this fascinating. I did.
Apparently ‘Disney Researcher’ is a job that really exists, and a group of them have just developed a way to calculate the exact distribution of mass within an object, in order to control its center of gravity. This allowed them to 3D print asymmetrical shaped tops, that spin despite their odd, off center shapes...
Checkout Disneys research on 3D printing. You can now convert any shape into a spinning toy. It does not have to be a symmetrical object. They have done this by using material of 2 different density. By changing where the denser material goes, they could get the object to rotate stably around an axis of their choice. Check the article to know more.
Collection of all the tutorials by Adafruit. Learn electronics here.
These guys to a great job showcasing many many new technologies and teaching us how to use them with instructions, schematics, and forums. This is far and away the best learning site.
I describe why glass fails, and how to improve its apparent strength via a simple chemical treatment. This process is used to create Gorilla Glass.
How to chemically strengthen glass ..
Turning an egg shape in some 6061 Aluminum using a Mach3 controlled lathe. The lathe is a converted Grizzly G4003 Lathe powered by Gecko Drives. I am Using a...
Watch how a CNC lathe is turning an egg shape with 6061 aluminum
Date: 5th September – 7th September 2014 Location: Skempton Building, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ Click here to sign up! Between the 5th – 7th September 2014, Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (ICAH) and 3D printer manufacturer Ultimaker will be hosting Imperial College’s biggest hackathon event yet, Additive Sounds, at the Imperial College campus …
Red Bull Air Race is not only a sport of speed and skill but also precision. Check out how close the pilots fly by ground and pylons!
If you want to inject a dose of aviation adrnuatlin into your viens watch this video
Collection of all the tutorials by Sparkfun
To a lessor extent, we get similar benefits like adafruit learning module from Sparkfun.
The worlds most popular croudfunding site. The word crowdfunding pretty much rhymes with kickstarter
I keep tabs on this site for new open hardware projects. Hit and miss, but worth keeping an eye on.
Hoverbike is a revolution in aviation, designed to do what a helicopter does, but cost less and do so better
Wow hover bike is here. They want to build an actual hover bike that you can drive. Back this project and get yourself a scale model of the bike that you can play around with.
Apparently ‘Disney Researcher’ is a job that really exists, and a group of them have just developed a way to calculate the exact distribution of mass within an object, in order to control its center of gravity.
Checkout Disneys research on 3D printing. You can now convert any shape into a spinning toy. It does not have to be a symmetrical object. They have done this by using material of 2 different density. By changing where the denser material goes, they could get the object to rotate stably around an axis of their choice. Check the article to know more
Inspired by the Ripslinger from the Disney movie 'Planes', Josh and David decided to make their own scratch built character planes! In this episode of Flite ...
Watch the slinger from the animation movie planes in real life. It is soo cool.
"Safety Shouldn’t Be Annoying"…So goes the tagline for the Nest Protect smoke and CO detector. This clever little device replaces your existing smoke detector with the promise of keeping you safer and better informed.
Here is the teardown of nest by spark fun.
Follow us on Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/howitsmade1 How its Made Chains Show created by Gabriel Hoss. The show is presented on the Science Chann...
Watch how chains are made one link at a time.
A very quick clip to show the process Soren goes through when making one of his unique wooden lamp shades. !!! Please before you write a negative comment abo...
Making of a shade. Watch how this beautiful shade is made. Although we think the process is extremely wasteful, we also think that is requires a lot of craftsmanship to pull this out off.
Clip from Edwardian Farm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millbuilder/rope.html Strengt...
Watch how a rope is made .. Pretty fascinating
The whole idea of being a maker involves concepts of collaboration, community, and working with other people. It’s very hard to be a maker and be by yourself locked in a room or even in a lab.
Fresh hacks every day
There is more cool stuff getting posted to hackaday every day. The instructions are not as complete, but it is inspiring to see how far out of the box some of these projects are.
Social network by google
Lots of cool projects getting posted to G+.
MAKE - DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers
Discovery / Science Channel's "How It's Made" Eggs episode
Watch how eggs are made
These are the slides for my Hardware by the Numbers Keynote at O'Reilly Solid. They create a narrative about the hardware startup ecosystem using quantitative …
Renee DiResta from O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures talks about hardware trends. There are some interesting stats on hackerspaces, makerfaires and the rest of the hardware startup ecosystem. We also found the stats on hardware on kickstarter pretty interesting.
Find the craziness in engineering, but don't try them at home... Learn more at: http://www.electroboom.com and follow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/El...
You can actually see sound waves as they travel through the air thanks to a clever photographic trick. tumblr.com/follow/skunkbear skunkbear.tumblr.com Twitt...
A very cool visualization of how sound looks like. The sound is visualized using a technique called Schlieren Flow Visualization. More about it on the video
Yep, that's right, the fantastic engineers at Raspberry Pi HQ have blessed us with a new design. They've taken all the feedback over the last 3 years and rolled out a nice updated Pi with many fixes and extras...all at the same price!
A complete article on the difference between raspberry pi and model B
This episode is sponsored by Audible.com Flite Test fans can download a free audio book here: http://audible.com/flitetest The RV JET from RangeVideo.com is ...
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Watch the power of friction. In this video, two plates are welded together using friction welding. One plate is kept stationary, while the other one is made to rotate. Friction heats up the surface and on stoping the rotation of the plate, both the plates fuse together
Have an awesome electronic widget that you want to get to market? Great! We are always listening for new ideas from our customers and the community. We get many inquires on this topic, so read this tutorial carefully to keep your product pitch from getting lost in the shuffle.
Here is an article on how to sell your widgets on spark fun. Did you make something really cool? Do you want to sell it and make some money and get popular in the community? Don’t want to take the headache of figuring out how to operate your business? This article is for you.
A non-jewellery post, for a change. We were running a bit short on shelving in the kitchen and wanted somewhere we could store all the preserves we're going to make from the garden this year, so we went to the timber yard to see what they had. They had this, 155cm long piece of chestnut.
Read this article on how a guy filled up the cracks in a panel of wood with glowing blue resin. Its looks really cool.
a project by dave hakkens
Making really cool stuff with recycled plastic. You will find the video interesting.
I designed and 3D printed a Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motor, and used an Arduino to control the motor. All parts of the motor, excluding magnets...
When I was a kid, I always thought building a useful motor would be the most difficult thing. Looks like you can now 3D print a motor
Tables have been a pretty static fixture in our homes for thousands of years, but a few MIT designers have been inspired to totally rethink the way we interact with this furniture staple.
Check out this really amazing shape shifting table.
A collection of all "ask an engineer" by Adafruit
More info: http://www.ibuildit.ca/Workshop%20Projects/wooden-vise-1.html The vise is made almost completely out of solid pine. The jaw pads and handle are ma...
Get a perspective on how to build a wooden vise. Its not instructional but you get it. Also the video is not narrational.
Some people (not me) can successfully solder incredibly tiny Quad Flad No-lead (QFN) parts such as the one in the photo below by hand using a soldering iron or a hot air gun (the photo below is from a commercial board, not hand soldered). For wireless devices and modern sensors, surface mount device (SMD) packages as small as QFN have become the normal, default package.
Building a reflow oven. We have not build this one. This is something that we definitely want to build sometime in the future.
Video Credits: Mikhail Anand and Riddhi Talreja. Audio Credits: Mikhail Anand and Arshish Mehta
Checkout this official video from Maker’s Asylum Mumbai.
The show and tell event conducted by Adafruit
A Vampire Mk6 modified with a real working EDF afterburner! Powered with butane and ignited with parts from a stun gun, David attempts to fly this EPO foam R...
Electric plane to a jet afterburn: what happens when you lock up a crazy swedish guy in a room full of airplane.
My idea for this project was to use electronics to create a musical instrument that someone could play like a trombone but would produce synthetic sounds. Like any other brass instruments, a trombone is a long open pipe that is played by buzzing one’s lips inside it, through a mouthpiece.
Learn how to build an electric trombone. Complete instruction. We have not build it .. Would love to hear from you if you build this one.
In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that...
Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads. The part of the video where he balances a glass of water on the top of the quad is amazing.
Doorbells are there for a reason; to let you know that someone is at your door. However, many a times they turn into a nuisance. You run to the door only to find out that it is an unwanted visitor or some salesperson. Such scenarios ...
New IoT hardware which lets you respond to guest at your doorstep, whether you are home or not.
This week I traveled to northeast China to check out a bitcoin mining operation. Here's photos and details about the farm.
Checkout this account of someone visiting a bitcoin mine in china.
GE's FirstBuild, the first makerspace for the community to create the next generation of appliances, opened in Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday.
GE lauches and industrial makerspace to advance co-creation.
IoT Bangalore presents "ThingHack: Healthcare", a 2-day hackathon on Health and Wellness. Join us to learn, hack and have some fun building connected devices that could revolutionize healthcare!
IoT Bangalore presents "ThingHack: Healthcare", a 2-day hackathon on Health and Wellness. Join us to learn, hack and have some fun building connected devices that could revolutionize healthcare! Registration deadline: Aug 15, 2014, 6:00 PM Event date: Aug 23-24, 2014 Venue: Cisco Systems, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore Details and registration: http://www.thinghack.com/
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Making a goblet. Wow, its interesting to watch how a such awesome objects are made from a piece of wood.
What makes “making�?—the next generation of inventing and do-it-yourself—worth paying attention to?
http://element14.com/tbhs - Ben Heck of the Ben Heck Show demonstrates his laser cutter and creates something awesome for Alyson!
basics of laser cutting.
This was a quick project to build a data logger, useful around the lab or elsewhere. So quick it can be built in a couple of hours, and with dozens of uses. The facility to log events or values over time is extremely important for many projects - it is a useful Swiss army knife to have around when needed.
Build a simple data logger, using Tiva Launchpad. We did not build it ourself but this one definitely looks interesting.
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video by: Abe Davis Michael Rubinstein Neal Wadhwa Gautham J. Mysore Fredo Durand Wialliam T. Freeman P...
This is a very very interesting video. Scientist reconstruct speech through soundproof glass by watching a bag of potato chips. Its a demo of how they are listening to a conversation by processing video of a object that is vibrating due to the sound. The vibrations are so minuscule that you cannot see them with naked eye. Everyday visual object becomes a microphone. Must watch.
The foundation talks us through the key features of the updated device
Difference between raspberry pi model B and model B plus
After a view addicted minutes, I thought why not making an Arduino playing Timberman for me. Arduino High Score: 1039 A better timed version reached a High Score…
Watch arduino playing timber man. This might be the highest score for the app.
Read the poster: http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces What if we designed a new kind of "maker space" -- a space that isn't just for putting pieces together, but…
Turning a 300mm wooden sphere on a Vicmarc VL300 lathe
How to turn a timber sphere Wow, watch how a perfectly sphere is made out of wood.
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Wondering how the google cardboard VR headset works? Watch this video to learn more
The old saying says good things come in small packages. Google and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) seem to agree having launched the Little Box Challenge, an open competition with a US$1 million first prize to find innovative electronic designs to shrink power inverters down from the...
Google offers up US$1 million prize to shrink size of power inverters
