I’m knee deep in software development for a couple of motion control projects, and have had the feeling that I’ve been re-inventing the wheel for a while. Well, I wish I would have found grbl sooner. It appears to be a mostly complete implementation of the g-code standard, written to run on an Atmega328-based Arduino
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Grbl, an Arduino-based g-code interpreter
A bell jar was placed on top of a mini hive and bees from the nucleus started to create foundation of a hive in the jar. Once the foundation is laid, the bees work in masses to form the rest of the hive. Bees Makes Hive In A Jar More: Bee coverage in MAKE Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Makers | Digg this!
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Bees in the Bell Jar
Tiny, Tiny Wiimotes For People with Tiny, Tiny Hands [Gaming] Do you have tiny, child-sized hands? Is the Wiimote just too darned big for you to grip comfortably? Well, Power A’s new MiniRemote and MiniChuck controllers are 35% smaller.
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Tiny, Tiny Wiimotes For People with Tiny, Tiny Hands [Gaming]
No Technology Magazine has a lovely photo gallery, which points to far more extensive galleries, of enclosed Belgian recumbent trikes. Belgian Recumbent Tricycles More: See all of our recumbent coverage on MAKE Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Bicycles | Digg this!
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Enclosed Belgian recumbent tricycles
Reverse Perspective Video Will Drive You Bonkers [Image Cache] This video shows God’s view of the world. No, I’m not kidding. Trust me, there’s an explanation about why God must really have a lot of problems grabbing his coffee mug.
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Reverse Perspective Video Will Drive You Bonkers [Image Cache]
United in their desire to break the world record, approximately 50 line following robots gathered in Kansas City last Saturday to simultaneously demonstrate their prowess as following painted paths. According to robots dreams , their official results were 50 robots for 2 seconds and 15 robots for 1 full minute
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United in their mission, line following robots gather to secure world record
This free web-based tool generates your text as a fold-up extruded 3D origami model. It’s based on this paper from Erik Demaine , Martin Demaine , and Jason Ku at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . [via Boing Boing ] More: Joel Cooper’s amazing origami masks plus grid tutorial Origami model + reflection = skull Gorgeous origami cobra Parker Papercraft tessellations Geometric kirigami Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Paper Crafts | Digg this!
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Extruded origami text pattern generator
Yesterday at Figment , a participatory arts event on Governor’s island in New York City, Nick Normal and I met 0H10M1ke , who draws 1 minute portraits of strangers on matchbooks and hands them out. I thought it was such a sweet idea! He’s been doing it for a long time; Nick and I got portraits numbered 8012 and 8013, respectively
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Matchbook Portraits by 0H10M1ke
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Okay, so we are one of those people who will not be caught with a knock-off – mainly because we would rather steer clear of whatever legal implications owning such an article may bring. We have to admit, though, that when one travels to places where one sees them crawling all over the place with rock-bottom prices (and that includes Canal Street with the Pradas and the Burberrys), well, the temptation to succumb is there.
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iPad versus iPed
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Deal Hunting – Get Dresses Up to 60% OFF at Jones New York
There’s something appealing about being able to set your mobile down and have it start charging without having to attache anything special to the device itself. Inspired by such simplicity, maker Infinitemods gutted a Palm Pre for the necessary parts and retrofitted a brand new HTC Evo to charge using a Palm Touchstone
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HTC Evo inductive charging mod
Drink From Your Own Customized Heineken Bottle [Beer] Get rid of Heineken’s iconic green bottle and customize a bottle yourself. It’ll cost you a pretty penny at $36 for a 6-pack so don’t play beer pong with this, enjoy every sip. Responsibly, of course
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Drink From Your Own Customized Heineken Bottle [Beer]
This Indigo Oyster Bay Pendant is on sale at HomeDecorators.com for $99.00 (was $169.00). The Indigo design features rich deep colors and curved, mosaic-like shapes that give this shade fresh style. This ceiling fixture offers the perfect way to add some color to your living room, bedroom or study.
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Indigo Oyster Bay Pendant | Get $70 OFF
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