Wrap Music [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, making bubble wrap sing, telegraphing your lunch date, a mesmerizing headband, and arm wrestling the left-handed.
In a Word [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, a wordy clock, walking in VR, a motivational scrap bot, and 3D printed foot fashion.
Easy Breezy [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, fan art, ambient tube sounds, wired AirPod controls, high-fiving forest tentacles, and a low poly web tool.
Picture This [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, a Pi-powered portrait picture plotter, screaming plants, time for your old TV, trash kang, big bones, and a quest for animatronic perfection.
Mind Reading Bean Machine [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, an artificially intelligent coffee maker, a one-button music remote, talking skulls, singing fish, and blinking bots.
Dropping the Ball [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, an attractive clock, robots on the ceiling, Micro:Bit gets an upgrade, a cylon scooter, pocket model kit, a box of life, and OLED fangs.
Monster Chompers [Maker Update #175]
This week on Maker Update, our robot overlords get a new, terrifying mouth, the Pi camera goes deluxe, Maker Faire goes virtual, mirror inspiration, and singing toilet paper.
$10 Digital Servo Tester Controller Review
Tool: Digital Servo Tester Controller with Voltage Display
http://amzn.to/2BCDYMp
Transcript:
It’s time for another Cool Tools review! This time we’re taking a look at this Servo Tester Control board. I picked this up for $10 on Amazon, and if you want the same one, using the link in the description helps support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.
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.
