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Wireless iPod Charger
Resonant wireless power transfer has been around for a long time, but it never fails to impress. For instance, take this cool DIY wireless iPod charger from instructables user Inducktion.
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XBee-enabled SumoBots Appearing at Maker Faire
Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is bringing some very cool bots to Digi’s Maker Faire Bay Area Booth: Say hello to Troy and Abed! They’re Digi International’s brand-new...
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Raspberry Pi Embedded in DSLR Camera
Limerick area photographer and camera hacker, Dave Hunt, has managed to squeeze a Raspberry Pi SBC inside a detachable battery grip for his Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera.Read the full article on MAKE
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Networking 400 Balloons with XBees
Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is helping to light up the sky with XBees: This week I’m heading to Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K. for Connecting Light, 400 giant illuminated...
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Raspberry Pi in the Sky!
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil...
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New in the Maker Shed: Arduino WiFi Shield
Looking for a way to network enable your Arduino projects without wires? Look no further, you need the Arduino WiFi Shield available in the Maker Shed! This shield fits atop your Arduino and will...
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GitHub is Doing Great (Wireless) Things With Their Replicator 2
My college roommate, Mike Skalnik, a developer at GitHub, recently told me about their new MakerBot Replicator 2, which he and his coworkers have been working to automate so that anyone in the company...
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Raspberry Pi as an FM Transmitter
This morning I was lazily browsing Reddit when I came across a project by the Imperial College Robotics Society in the UK. It’s code and instructions for using the Raspberry Pi as a low-power mono FM...
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Easily Control Ambient Lighting with Your Smartphone
If you're looking to jumpstart an ambient lighting project and could use a controller with out-of-the-box iOS and Andriod support, you might want to check out the iGloLEDset from MEA Mobile. They've...
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Everyone’s the DJ with Autonomous Interactive Radio
Reid Bingham and Sean McIntyre, the duo behind Double One Design, created Autonomous Interactive Radio (AIR for short). It’s a Raspberry Pi-based DJ system which accepts MP3 files via email and...
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In the Maker Shed: Using the Minty Mote Arduino Remote
Do you want to add a simple wireless remote control to your Arduino projects without spending a bundle? The Minty Mote Kit (available in the Maker Shed) can be used for door bells, basic home...
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Calling All Covert Operators – Build a Bug with Weekend Projects
Build a wireless "bug" by combining an amplified listener with a short-range FM transmitter. Hide the circuit in a book or other discreet object.Read the full article on MAKE
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Mod a Mini Rover with Weekend Projects
Combine a remote-controlled (R/C) vehicle with some surveillance equipment to create your own terrestrial rover. Turn your rover into a game, explore the neighborhood, or challenge a friend to a...
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Mint-Tin Software Defined Radio
Steve, AKA Flickr user 3dking, built this mint-tin, PCB-less(!) SDR upverter, which switches your software-controlled Ham radio from VHF to HF. I built another up-converter, this time in to an Altoids...
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Bug-in-a-Book
In this fun and easy project (which originally appeared in the Spy Tech edition of Make Magazine), you’ll connect a shirt-pocket “amplified listener” hearing aid with an in-car FM transmitter to create...
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Teleclaw: Remote Robot Gripper
It might have been Robots of Saturn that first got my young brain thinking about building a mechanical man. In that obscure 1962 sci-fi adventure novel, Dig Allen and his fellow teenage space explorers...
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Tweet-A-Watt Power Monitor
By Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone We live in a rented apartment, so we don’t have hacking access to a power meter or breaker panel. But we still wanted to measure our household power usage long-term,...
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Micro FM Transmitter
This circuit is commonly credited to Japanese multimedia artist Tetsuo Kogawa. It takes audio input through a 1/4″ phono jack and, constructed as shown, without the optional antenna connections, will...
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Networked On Air Light
You may have seen those "On Air" lights at film, radio or television studios. Now that anyone can broadcast video over the internet, it’s time to learn how to build your own "Now Streaming" light that...
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