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This jump rope shows your skip count in mid air
Working out always involves some sort of counting. Keeping track of your reps as you lift weights is fairly simple, but not so much when skipping rope. This is something the Tangram Factory team is...
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The PancakeBot is now on sale for $299
If you follow us on social media, chances are you’re well aware of our love for the PancakeBot. And if you share our passion for delicious breakfast art, then you’ll be super excited to hear that the...
View ArticleTweet your messages to this LED-laden dress
With the advent of the Internet of Things, seemingly everything around us is becoming connected. Our cars, our homes, and yes, even our clothing. Whether it’s shirts that respond to the environment or...
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3D printing helps a three-legged dog walk again
Life wasn’t always so easy for Ziggy growing up as a puppy. The two-year-old Border Collie was found abandoned in 2014, with a broken front leg that wasn’t correctly healing and required amputation. At...
View ArticleThese masks glow green if Facebook interests match up
Think of this recent project from Skol Beats as an innovative take on Tinder. Distributed throughout this year’s Rio de Janeiro’s Music Carnival, the Brazilian company’s Bluetooth-enabled masks are...
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20 smart crowdfunding campaigns you may want to back this week
Cubetto This kit teaches kids programming using set of colorful coding blocks, not a screen. Primo Toys has already stormed right past its goal of $100,000 on Kickstarter. Enflux Smart Clothing This...
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The 2016 Hackaday Prize is now underway!
For the third straight year, our friends at Hackaday are encouraging Makers and engineers alike to build something that matters. In 2014, they were simply looking for open source, connected devices. In...
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MCU Madness: Battle of the Boards
For college basketball fans, the best time of year has arrived — March Madness! In the spirit of the 68-team, three-week national event, we’ve decided to have our own (not so) little tournament in the...
View ArticleWatch six tiny robots pull a two-ton car
Ants are often credited for their hard work and strength, in part because they can transport extremely heavy loads with respect to their size. Modeled after these insects, researchers from Stanford...
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Creating an automated foosball scoreboard
If there’s one thing that we can all agree on, it’s that table football, or foosball, is awesome. As kids, we played it in arcades. As adults, we have it in our playroom downstairs… or if we’re lucky,...
View ArticleTurn old CD-ROM drives into a CNC laser engraver and PCB exposer
Rather than toss out his old CD-ROM drives, Maker “NeumiElektronik” decided to transform them into a small, two-axis CNC laser machine capable of engraving materials like foam, leather and wood, as...
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10 sensor-equipped pigeons are tweeting about London’s air quality
Back in the day, pigeons were used to carry handwritten messages from one place to another. Well now, they’re tweeting air quality. In its efforts to combat pollution, IoT startup Plume Labs equipped...
View ArticleThe Bluetooth LED cloud lamp of your dreams
If you place something “in the cloud” generally you would mean placing data on a remote server. In the case of this Bluetooth-controlled cloud lamp by David and Ryan of Eclectical Engineering, it’s...
View ArticleMusi lets you hear the sound of your environment
Musi, as it labels itself, is a hexagonal instrument that allows one to “hear the melody of space.” In this case, “space” refers to the distance between the hexagon and an object placed in front of one...
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FingerIO lets you interact with your devices by writing on any nearby surface
As mobile and wearable devices continue to grow smaller, it gets tougher for people to interact with screens the size of a matchbook. That could, however, may soon change thanks to a new sonar...
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Open Trash Can is a smart, Internet-connected trash can that talks
Whether you’re the type who always forgets to take the garbage out or finds themselves constantly having to remind a roommate or significant other to do their chore, the Open Trash Can is for perfect...
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Control your smartwatch with pans, twists, tilts, and clicks
Not too long ago, a team of engineers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute developed a new smartwatch prototype with hopes of making wearable device usability much...
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This drone can fly, perch and climb walls
Your drone could soar through the sky, but could it also perch and climb walls like this quadrotor can? Probably not. The robot is called SCAMP, and it is the brainchild of Stanford’s Biomimetics and...
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DRU is an autonomous, pizza-delivering robot
Imagine a future in which your large cheese pizza is delivered by not a human, but a robot. A world in which you collect your piping hot garlic bread and ice-cold soda from the compartment of a...
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21 smart crowdfunding campaigns you may want to back this week
TrapTap This simple and stylish wireless button warns you of speed traps, red light cameras and school zones by flashing different colors. Bryce North is currently seeking $64,316 on Kickstarter....
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