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Dokument's Fireworks Launcher
Dokument's Arduino based Fireworks Launcher made Hack-A-Day :)
Dokument is one of the #makerslocal channel regulars that is starting up the 205 chapter of Makers Local.
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New Sign
Chris Dayton, who used to run the Burning Nun at the Flying Monkey, created a sign for the shop:
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Makers Local 256 USB Authenticated Door Lock
For the past couple of weeks Makers Local 256 has been working on a USB authenticated deadbolt unlocking servo mechanism.
There's a wiki page up here showing some of the design notes.
Here's a video of the project in action:
- This made Hack-A-Day !
- This made Blogowogo !
- This made Gizmodo !
- This made SlashGear !
- This made Engadget !
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Trebuchet
People from my high school built a trebuchet back in '05, the pictures and video just got posted to the internet.
Makes me want to built one at the Make Shop. Maybe we could fling things at the Lowe Mill?
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Car 4 sale, comes with 1 taco
Sara obtained a new vehicle this weekend, an '04 Honda Accord.
We're going to put her '87 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera on Craigslist sometime this week.
If you know anyone who is in need of wheels, she gets about 20/22 city mpg.
It's a V4, needs new brake pads and rubber gasket (weather stripping?) around the driver side door
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First Geocaching
Yesterday Sara, myself, Ray and Nathan took a spontaneous Makers Local outing to go Geocaching.
We found two at the Lowe Mill, and one at the Cracker Barrel on University.
I had been meaning to do this for a long time with devilturnip, but by the time I got around to calling him back he had moved to some coastal country.
Geocaching was fun, I'm looking ( Read more... )
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