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MAKE Magazine In This Issue... This week in Maker Events Crabfu's DIY iPad stylus Giant electric pastrymobiles invade Maker Faire Behinduino great for breadboard Arduino prototyping laser-etched brain model Remixing with swing Giant cardboard robot suit In the Maker Shed: Robotic arm kit Awesome GBC (great ball contraption) Brain machines at Maker Faire DSLR pinhole lens Printing electroluminescent displays Road From Maker Faire 2010: beatseqr/steppa wrapup Evolutionary Art Competition @ GECCO 2010 More Recent Articles This week in Maker Events Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar! Coming up this week: Meeting 20100527 @Dallas Makerspace Dallas, TX Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7pm + Explore the Alien Bowels of Haskell @PS:One Chicago, IL Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8pm- 9pm Open Programming/Make Night @Interlock Rochester Rochester, NY Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7pm - 10pm Build Night @All Hands Active Ann Arbor, MI Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7:30pm - 12am Open Hack Session @Baltimore Node Baltimore, MD Thur, May 27, 2010, 7pm - 9pm World Steam Expo Dearborn, MI Friday, May 28, 2010 - Monday, May 31, 2010, 10am - 5pm Arduino / Project Night @theTransistor Provo, UT Saturday, May 29, 2010, 6pm - 9pm Introduction to Electronics @Metrix Create:Space Seattle, WA Saturday, May 29, 2010, 2pm - 4:30pm Open Workshop @Hackerspaces Buffalo Buffalo, NY Saturday, May 29, 2010, 2pm + Make In @Crash Space Culver City, CA Saturday, May 29, 2010, 12pm - 3pm LA Microcontroller Club Culver City, CA Sunday, May 30, 2010, 1pm + Maker Faire Work Night @i3Detroit Ferndale, MI Monday, May 31, 2010, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Make A Bot Monday @Alpha One Labs Brooklyn, NY Monday, May 31, 2010, 8pm + Art Club Meeting @Arch Reactor St Louis, MO Monday, May 31, 2010, 8pm - 11pm Microcontroller Mondays @HacDC Washington, DC Monday, May 31, 2010, 7pm - 11:30pm Nanites lecture beta @Austin HackerSpace Austin, TX Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010, 7:30pm - 8:30pm PGH Lock Picking Group @HackPittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010, 6pm - 8pm World Science Festival New York, NY Wednesday, Jun 2, 2010 - Sunday, Jun 6, 2010 Lockpicking @PS:One Chicago, IL Wednesday, Jun 2, 2010, 7pm - 9pm Start planning for: Bay Area Ham Cram San Francisco, CA Saturday, Jun 5, 2010, 8am - 5pm CPUs 0b1100101: Intro to computer processors @NYC Resistor Brooklyn, NY Saturday, Jun 5, 2010, 12pm - 2pm Hacking Javascript @757 Labs Norfolk, VA Wednesday, Jun 9, 2010, 6pm - 8pm Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Crabfu's DIY iPad stylus In response to Collin's DIY iPad stylus video, I-Wei created his own version that's even simpler to build, using a metal-tipped mechanical lead holder as the conductive barrel (and the same type of conducting foam for the nib). I love that he was able to repurpose his favorite (all-metal) lead holder that he hadn't used in years, since going digital in his design work. Nice work, I-Wei! The Ultimate iPad Stylus More: Collin's Lab: DIY iPad Stylus Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Giant electric pastrymobiles invade Maker Faire Maker Faire mavens Sherry Huss (frosted) and Louise Glasgow. Dapper roving reporter Matt Mets looks on. Photo: Kipp Bradford, Make: Online Technical Editor Louise is amazing as a pastry topping, too. Photo: Matt Mets, Make: Online Community Manager. "Backup is on the way, over." Photo: Billy Baque, Discerning Boulevardier This fleet of humongous cupcake scooters first appeared at the 2007 Maker Faire in San Mateo. They're the brainchild of Tesla Motors engineer Greg Solberg. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Transportation | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Behinduino great for breadboard Arduino prototyping Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this nifty project that squeezes an Atmega168 onto the back side of a half breadboard, leaving the entire front available for connections. Looks like it could be handy, as long as you don't forget that there is a circuit connected back there! I'd like to see one of these made with a transparent breadboard! In the Maker Shed: Make: Arduino Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • laser-etched brain model Flickr user yksong's model of the brain uses a series of laser-etched transparent panels. [via The Ponoko blog] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Remixing with swing Sweet Child O' Mine (Swing Version) by plamere White Rabbit - The Swing Version by plamere Tristan Jehan's Swinger does a heckuva good job adding a convincing swing to prerecorded music. Written in Python, the code uses the Echo Nest Remix API to time-stretch half of each beat while condensing the remainder. Check out more of plamere's examples over at Music Machinery. [via joshuatopolsky] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Giant cardboard robot suit Photo: Billy Baque Jason Lentz shows off his impressive cardboard exoskeleton at Maker Faire. To hear Jason tell it, the arms were the only tricky part to make. There's more info at the project's Facebook group and in Jason's Flickr collection. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Wearables | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • In the Maker Shed: Robotic arm kit Need a robotic arm to do your evil bidding? Then look no further than the Robotic arm kit available in the Maker Shed. You command the gripper to open and close, and control wrist motion of 120 degrees, an extensive elbow range of 300°, base rotation of 270°, base motion of 180°, vertical reach of 15", horizontal reach of 12.6", and lifting capacity of 100g. Added features include a search light design on the gripper and a safety gear audible indicator on all 5 gearboxes to prevent any potential injury or gear breakage during operation. Award-winning kit assembles with simple hand tools. Ages 10 and up. Features 5 motors and 5 joints LED-lighted gripper Safety audible indicators on all 5 gearboxes Requires 4 D batteries Simple hand tools required for assembly: screwdriver, long-nose pliers, diagonal cutter Robotic arm kit Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Awesome GBC (great ball contraption) This gigantic Mindstorms robot is quite possibly the most skillfully designed I've ever seen. There are at least ten different subsystems that deserve their own posts -- I especially love the many ball-elevating systems, particularly the one that sorts soccer balls into one channel and basketballs into the other. GBCs are collaborative building projects where several geographically separated builders can construct modules of a large Rube Goldbergesque machine and then assemble it at a Lego convention with the expectation that it will function as planned. [via The NXTStep] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Brain machines at Maker Faire Photo: Billy Baque Bobby Cossum was at this year's Maker Faire showing off his upgrades to Mitch Altman's Brain Machine from MAKE Volume 10: This is an upgrade to Mitch's brain machine that requires moving the low pass filters from LED positions 3 and 4 to positions 4 and 5. New firmware provides superior audio and improved syncing of the LEDs with the binaural beats, as well as allowing software control of LED brightness. With an upgrade to the power supply, RGB LEDs are also supported. The firmware will also compile for an ATMegaX8 and will run on an Arduino. You can download the code here, but be careful with it. This kid was still in the exhibit hall when we locked it up on Monday. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • DSLR pinhole lens Do you like the way a pinhole photo looks, but don't have the time to develop the photo? That's where the DSLR pinhole lens comes in. Maker Matt Devlin has put together a tutorial on how to make your own using household materials. [via DIYPhotography] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Photography | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Printing electroluminescent displays Jeri Ellsworth talks to Jon Beck at Maker Faire about silk-screening EL displays with electroluminescent ink manufactured by Dupont. Jon is from CLUE, the Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics. (How great is that name? Their logo is a question mark where the dot is the ground symbol.) The video is a little hard to hear, with all the ambient noise, but there's more information on the link below. CLUE Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Road From Maker Faire 2010: beatseqr/steppa wrapup Wow, we had an awesome time showing off our project to hundreds of people at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010! Here's a short video showing some of the reactions we got when people put the headphones on and started making their own beats with beatseqr and steppa. We're just getting started, so keep an eye out for us at http://beatseqr.com/blog/ More: The Road From Maker Faire: Raven Hanna The Road to Maker Faire: How to launch a rocket... The Road to Maker Faire: Raven Hanna The Road to Maker Faire: beatseqr The Road to Maker Faire: Rachel Hospodar The Road to Maker Faire: Greetings Earthlings! The Road to Maker Faire: TinyMeat preps for Maker Faire Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Faire | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Evolutionary Art Competition @ GECCO 2010 Evolutionary Art Competition @ GECCO 2010 - Scott Draves, Electric Sheep is one of the organizers and one of my favorite artists! This competition invites conference participants to demonstrate that genetic and evolutionary computation can be applied to create impressive and provocative works of art. The competition will identify the best work, be it an image, a sculpture, a music score, a video, an interactive online experience, or a system that exhibits some form of independent creativity. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • More Recent Articles Rock Band stage kit controlled by a .NET-powered micro Augmented reality without programming in five minutes OK Go goes underwater at Maker Faire The Road From Maker Faire: Raven Hanna Raygun Gothic Rocket replicas from Alan Rorie

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