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PROJECTS
TO MAKE AT HOME:
ROOMBA
WITH A VIEW
Make this wireless
your dog from work.
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Tough,
yet inspiring.
Visually stunning and incredibly tough, Corning ® Gorilla ® Glass is changing
the face of television. It allows manufacturers to create slim, edge-to-edge
displays that dissolve the boundaries between the viewer and action. And
its outstanding optical clarity helps bring pictures to life. Corning Gorilla
Glass enables advanced television designs that you never dreamed possible.
Where will it go next?
Start innovating at CorningGorillaGlass.com
©
2011
Corning Incorporated. All rights reserved.
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ON THE
COVER
Make: Volume 27
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42 : Yellow Drum Machine
Build a musical bot that drives around making wicked beats
on found surfaces. By Frits Lyneborg
49 : Roomba Recon
Turn an old Roomba vacuum robot into a web-controlled,
wireless remote surveillance vehicle. By Raymond Caruso
with Evin Papowitz
THE SPY WHO VACUUMED: Hacked with a
router and webcam, this Roomba spies via the internet.
Creative direction by Sean DallasKidd. Photography
by Garry McLeod. Prop styling by Tietjen Fischer.
56 : Spazzi: A Solenoid-Powered Dancebot
Make a cute robotic bobble-head that dances to your music,
and even makes some of his own. By Marek Michalowski
62: Teleclaw: Remote Robot Gripper
Use a TV remote and dollar-store parts to grab and release
small objects from afar. By Gordon McComb
56
66 : Teaching Old Toys New Tricks
Convert toys into surprisingly capable robots using a
Bluetooth-connected brain. By DJ Sures
74 : Welcome, Robot Overlords!
A look at the latest projects and parts in hobby robotics.
80: Robots of Maker Faire
The robots ran rampant in San Mateo, Calif., this year.
Columns
11 : Welcome: Building Robots That Play
Can a machine be playful? Can it entertain us, even mimic us?
By Dale Dougherty
SPAZZI: A bouncy, solenoid-powered robotic
character from the makers of Keepon.
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12: Reader Input
Jacobean joinery, zinc fumes, space pods, and stealth networks.
15: Maker’s Calendar
Events from around the world. By William Gurstelle
16: In the Maker Shed
The kit that launched 3,100 new electronics makers.
By Dan Woods
26 : Tales from the Web
Building a MAKE video network. By Gareth Branwyn
27 : Making Trouble
Pneubotics: Walking bouncy castles. By Saul Griffith
TOY HACKS: DJ Sures shows you how to make
interactive robots out of common toys.
28 : Country Scientist
Startups: Origins of the PC revolution. By Forrest M. Mims III
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31: Make Free: Moral Suasion
Four horsemen of the 3D printing apocalypse.
By Cory Doctorow
Family fun project
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By: Forrest M. Mims III
The year is 2021, and the Federal Panel of Obsolete Technology (PØT) has banned the
manufacture, sale and use of manually adjustable (analog) potentiometers, trimmers
and the like. Only digitally-programmable potentiometer technology may be
manufactured and used. Consultant Leo Smith is an analog old timer with a thriving
business designing workarounds for circuits that would work much better if "old
fashioned" analog components banned by the PØT were still available. How did Leo
design a rotary style, continuous (no steps) volume control for a
children's portable radio without breaking the law?
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