Posts tagged as motion

How-To: Hack motion detectors to trigger props

Hpropman presents a group of four tutorials about how to connect common motion detecting devices to a microcontroller for triggering haunt props. H...

How-To: Free motion cycling rollers

I just got one of those indoor bike trainers. You know, the kind that props up the rear wheel against a heavy, resistance-providing whee...

Brickfilms: Lego stop-motion

This month on Make: Online we're talking about DIY moviemaking. One important subset is the brickfilm: a stop-motion movie using Lego bricks to crea...

Stop-motion music video

Stewart McCullough sent us this stop-motion music video he did for some friends, The Bran Flakes. He used (and recommends) Dragon Stop Motion softwa...

Faux stop-motion papercraft animation

This animation, done by NYC's Tronic Studio, for AXA, a French insurance company, is faux stop-motion, faux papercraft, all 3D Studio Max. Tronic ...

Newton's Laws of Motion, in stop-motion animation, by 3 young makers

When I visited my cousin last week, his daughter Neeka Mashouf (age 13) and two of her classmates (Nicole Bronstein and Sydney Schonefeld) were d...

Free promotional plastic resin sampler puzzle

I don't often blog promotional giveaways, but this one is pretty sweet: Minnesota's Proto Labs offers injection molding in a bunch of different pla...

SparkL Motion, an Arduino-powered ribbon necklace

Jen Savage of Alpha One Labs combined her software and sewing skills to make this SparkL Motion ribbon necklace. Her first Arduino project, i...

John Park in the Maker Shed: PIR Arduino motion alarm

Want to learn how to hook up a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to your Arduino? Check out this video I put together doing just that. These sensors are...

Open MAKE @ Exploratorium: Motion and Mechanisms

This Saturday, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we'll have our fourth Open MAKE session beginning at 11 am in the McBean Theater followed by ong...