MAKE MagazineMAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want.Spy Box shows you the way, literally- September 15, 2008 This "Spy Box" by artist Tim Knowles is a home built parcel shipping box with a small hole on the top and a digital camera and custom circuitry placed inside. While in transit, the box is programmed to take a picture every 10 seconds, recording a total of 6994 images in a single trip between two local addresses by a city courier. The resulting compilation of shots from this project (which looks like an abstract art piece from the 70s) is at the link below. Postal Works - Spy Box Read more .http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/spy_box_shows_you_the_way.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B489848... Voice of Saturn Modulator kit- September 15, 2008 The Voice of Saturn line of synth kits welcomes a new family member - the Modulator features ... ...VCA (voltage controlled amplifier), triangle and square wave generator and AR (Attack Release) envelope shaper. Together, they can be used to add tremolo or AM (amplitude modulation) effects to audio signals, and also add attack and release ramps to control signals. There are two summing CV inputs, as well as an "Instant On" button that maxes out the control voltage. The triangle output can be.http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/voice_of_saturn_modulator.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B489848... Runaway Harp by Tracy Tsang- September 15, 2008 Lukas sent me this link to the Runaway Harp by Tracy Tsang. Each column of water has an LED at one end and a sensor at the other. When the user interrupts the stream of water, it triggers a sound created by the Arduino. Very cool! Thanks Lukas The idea of Runaway Harp came from the thinking that an instrument can have her own personality also and therefore wish to express herself in another form. The use of circulating water coincides with our original idea of using Time as a topic for our...http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/runaway_harp_by_tracy_tsa.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B489848... Arduino + CMUcam = Indoor Rover- September 15, 2008 This little robot can navigate around the room based on what it sees on the CMU cam. I have always wanted a CMU cam, and now I want one even more. Check out the web site for a lot more information on this build. This is my first real robot. It is an "never-ending" project, started a year ago, that is intended to be a test bed for any ideasprojects I think of over the next couple of years. Currently it is handling the interfacing between an RS232 CMUcam1 and an Arduino (Stickduino). Read...http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/arduino_cmucam_indoor_rov.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B489848... |