These days it’s hard to be carry the label “maker” or “hacker” without also being proficient in some kind of CAD- even if the C is for Cardboard. But before there was CAD there was Drafting and its associated arts, and one couldn’t just select a shape and see its area in the square unit …
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While the term “upcycle” is relatively recent, we feel like [saveitforparts] has been doing it for a long time. He’d previously built gear to pick up low-Earth orbit satellites, but now wants to pick up geosynchronous birds which requires a better antenna. While his setup won’t win a beauty contest, it does seem to work, and …
Working and learning from home may be the new norm, and if IKEA shelves are any indication, folks are tricking out their home office with furniture, gadgets, and squishy chairs. While teleconferencing has proven to be an invaluable tool, paper documents aren’t going down with out a fight. Unfortunately dedicated document cameras require significant space …
MIRROR, MIRROR, ON YOUR CAM, SHOW US WHAT YOU’VE DRAWN BY HAND Read More »
The tank that will follow you and serve you beer. Coolness is over 9000! There are things that deep inside every man wants to have. Combining beer and tanks is one of these things! This project will be about this thing, a voice controlled tank that delivers beer to you with an autonomous “follow me” …
Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a mini laptop project to keep them busy next weekend may be interested in this new pocket laptop created by the Creativity Buzz YouTube channel providing insight into how you can create your very own Raspberry Pi laptop using a TP4056 Module and Bluetooth keyboard also available online. There are …
Cruising through the children’s hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the little smiling box as “just for kids” but doing so would overlook something more interesting: an alternative to data-mining corporations who dominate the smart speaker …
CHATTERBOX VOICE ASSISTANT KNOWS TO KEEP QUIET FOR PRIVACY Read More »
Your Raspberry Pi deserves its own screen and stand! Why share your Raspberry Pi with the living room TV? Give your Pi its own stand and battery so you can operate it anywhere in the house or in your office. Imagine having your own retro TV cardboard stand for your Raspberry Pi with the option …
Battery Operated Cardboard HDMI Retro TV Stand for your Raspberry Pi Read More »
What to do with the small cardboard box full of Raspberry Pi related junk, besides watch it sit slowly collecting dust. Surely it should be doing something interesting? Failing that it could be a wifi radio, I suppose. Notes on how I converted a cardboard box full of bits into a cardboard box full of …
2. Light Pipes This is a very common technique used in design – where for economy you want the lights (LEDs) mounted on a circuit board, but the board is positioned away from the case or user-interface. By taking a piece of clear plastic, one can ‘bounce’ the light along it (because of refraction) over …
Step 1: Materials Cardboard from the recycling bin,The sheet we we used was 32″x20″ with a thickness off around 4.1mm. A large clean box should do. Motors from Hobby King, 4x + Propeller clamps, We used Turnigy D3530/14 1100KV Brushless Outrunner Motor at $14.56 each. Our motors also came with propeller clamps which allowed us …
Autonomous, Cardboard, Rasberry Pi Controlled QuadCopter Read More »
