Handpan Servo Band [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: secrets of the Zenbot, Maker Music Fest, Makerbot marries Ultimaker, a 3D printed bling ring, an LED matrix cube, and a centrifugal golf cart.
Funk in the Trunk [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: superhuman jumping shoes, a ball of LEDs, kinetic sculpture, a gingerbread condo, a screw drive tank, controlling pitch with voltage, a bird feeder for people, and Raspberry Pi turns 10.
Half Past a Full House [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, a split-flap clock for one-eyed jacks, a rotisserie for your car, Jimmy Diresta’s return to television, puzzle boxes, sugar printers, and a leg-mounted dual-shock for accessible gaming.
Driving Meat Crazy [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, meals on wheels, Prusa goes big, Alexa Wheatley, a PC tower tavern, and fortune telling with a quantum computer.
Coin-Op Pop [Maker Update #172]
This week on Maker Update, a coin-op pat on the back, self-driving germicide, coffee table control, a DIY thermometer, golf cart conversion, missing cheese, and Hot Wheels for the apocalypse.
In Sync [Maker Update #146]
This week on Maker Update, windshield wipers that sync with music, the Arduino IDE goes pro, TensorFlow goes tiny, Bob’s flip-top workshop, Pi goes cyberpunk, butt joints and blow torches.
Make Plastic Car Trim Look New Again
Tool:
Meguiars Ultimate Black Plastic Restorer
http://amzn.to/2FPIgFq
Transcript:
I’m Donald Bell for Cool Tools and in this video we’re going to take a look at Meguiars Ultimate Black Plastic Restorer. I got a bottle of this for around $7 on Amazon. I’m going to show you why it’s awesome. This is not a sponsored video, and honestly I’m not even sure if I’m pronouncing the brand name right. But if you want to pick this up, using the Amazon link in the description helps support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.
Fast Cars, Soft Bots [Maker Update #120]
This week on Maker Update, a blazing fast 3D printed RC car, soft robotics in Korea, taking pictures with an Etch A Sketch, a robot recycler, and reading your pet’s RFID.
Making the Kitty Grabs Back Electric Go Kart
If you’ve never seen or heard of Power Racing Series, start here and come back. It looks like crazy fun, right? People take a second-hand kid’s ride-on car (or build one from scratch), turn them into full-on electric go karts, and race each other for fun and glory.
And every year at Maker Faire Bay Area, I’ve watched these racers from the sidelines, laughing and cheering and thinking to myself that someday I might just build and race a car of my own.
Season 8 Power Racing Series Trailer from Power Racing Series on Vimeo.
At the 2016 Maker Faire, freshly unemployed from my year as Make magazine’s Project Editor, I decided there was never going to be a better time to try building my own car.