Little Dipper [Maker Update #144]
This week on Maker Update, making tea with a robot, walking through radio waves, an Excitebike shed, fiber optic wings, and 3D printed googly eyes.
Restoring Oakland’s 1956 Wonder-Go-Round
On this blog, I get the chance to explore my love of how people create and invent using new technology. In many ways, Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California runs completely against the theme of this blog. It is one of the earliest theme parks in the United States, seemingly frozen in time for generations, and what little technology it has is about as analog as it gets.
Glass Eye for the Spooky Guy [Maker Update #143] *Adafruit Edition*
This week on Maker Update: Everything is awesome with this 3d printed lamp, over 2000 guides, a Xenomorph Candy Bucket, a creepy beating heart, mobile coding, keychords, IoT security and crazy cartoon eyes.
Framed [Maker Update #142]
This week on Maker Update, a Google calendar for your wall, real pinball over the internet, a laser crown, snoozing skeleton, and upgrading a vintage vending machine.
Internet of Tiny Cars [Maker Update #141]
This week on Maker Update, internet controlled RC cars, a 3D printer world record, animating 36 servos, plotter art from Wi-Fi maps, a funky ghost, and freeform circuit tips from the master.
Visors Down [Maker Update #139]
This week on Maker Update, a 3D printed Starman helmet, a beating heart, an Adabot solder helper, a disco band camp jacket, emulating Magic Cap, and an early look at BrainCraft.
Jon-A-Tron’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet
Occasionally there are projects that hang at the top of my “someday” list and refuse to budge, nagging me until I tackle them. Jonathan (Jon-A-Tron) Odom’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet project on Instructables is one of these projects.
When I started Maker Project Lab, the whole idea was that I was going to be rebuilding, evaluating, and elevating awesome projects that makers have shared online. It’s a process that was part of my job as a Projects Editor at Make: magazine, and it seemed like a cool thing I could continue doing. I mean, isn’t that part of what the Maker Movement is all about — sharing what you’ve done and inspiring people to build their own version and take it someplace new?
Needless to say, if you’ve been following this blog, you know that I got wonderfully sidetracked by making my own weekly show and reviewing tools. What little spare time I have left for actually making my own projects is typically sucked in to paid original project content, or personal projects for which a lot of the appeal is selfishly chipping away at something that’s just for me.
Lasers to 11 [Maker Update #138]
This week on Maker Update, an upright laser harp, Sphero gobbles up LittleBits, reeling kite string, wiggly antennas, and designing for burning man.