okay, so i hit up the lab to see if my cheap dc motor controller board could also be used to drive a stepper motor. verdict: absolutely, but it doesn’t like large steppers, and it’s not nearly as smooth as…

I saw this over at Hack-a-Day and while this is nothing new, its still worth blogging about. This is a great example of how hacking every day things to create new useful things is cool. Expecially if you make something…

I’m on the lookout for some Victorian era clothes to wear to the steampunk themed Chaos Communications Congress this winter. If you’ve got a source or costume shop to recommend, let me know. While searching for top hats, bow ties,…

Watching this amazing video over at Wired is pretty much guaranteed to blow your mind. Dr. Atala is printing body parts using a setup not unlike RepRap. He’s using a modified HP printer with an elevator plate added to allow…

Andrew Fentem has a video on his site of a very cool interactive LED cube. He doesn’t post any information about how the cube is made, but here is his ‘artist statement’: World’s first cubic touchscreen computer games platform (2007)…

Here’s an interesting vid about the fab@home peeps. – Link Fab@home wiki – Link 3 of these were to be sold at Maker Faire and it looks like only one sold at $2500 – Link

Or maybe a very popular blog. But none the less our name is mentioned. ““You have to organize,” says Nick Farr, who set up ‘hackers on a plane’, hauling hackers from DefCon to Germany for a hacker camp. “All it…