I got a MAKERBOT!!!!

Wonderful statement about Joey

A wonderful statement about Joey! Thanks Dean.

Do you know Julie Hudy, mom to Joey Hudy of "Look What Joey's Making"?  He exhibits his famous marshmallow shooter at Maker Faires.  We met Joey and Julie at the Detroit MF (we are spreading the word all over Michigan about MF, because I have many relatives all over Michigan).  We had a great talk about Joey's exploits.  He is quite the electronics fanatic.  Joey is also quite charismatic, and has started an interesting email friendship with my 15 year old nephew Nathanael who lives in Michigan.  Nathanael has Asperger's Syndrome, and everybody assumed that he would never be very mechanical.  But to heck with that, we introduced Nathanael to Joey in Detroit, and Joey inspired Nathanael to start building marshmallow shooters and various other projects.  I think Maker Faire, and Joey's influence, might have actually turned Nathanael onto what we hope will be a love of Making....

welding

yeastier day i learned how to weld at heatsynclabs.It was really fun.i got to weld a cube together.heatsynclabs deed a really good job at teaching.

projects i am working on.

 three main projects that i am working on at the moment are.

1. automatic ping pong air cannon. i started with just adding bb's into  one of the barrels and putting a straw at the end of the barrel.now i have to make a new air cannon  with a air compressor on and make it be able to withstand greater psi.
2. a robot that can follow me in a crowd of people. i am planing on using a wii remote as the sensor that will follow me.
3. a el wire arduino shield.i decided to make this because i made a el wire costume before but it was  wirey and sparkfuns el wire shield uses 8 of the arduino pins and i am planing on only using three by using a 74HC595 shift register.

Christmas

Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone had a super cool Christmas. I got some really cool things, below are my two favorites!

I'm having lots of fun playing with them.

What kind of cool things did you get?

DSO Quad - 4 Channel Digital Storage Oscilloscope

www.seeedstudio.com

4WD Arduino Compatible Mobile Platform
www.makershed.com

If you didn't get your 3x3x3 LED Cube Arduino Shield for Christmas..get one or two today!

ZombieTech Interview (Podcast)

I was interviewed by ZombieTech last week. It's live right now! Here's the link. It's 1 hour long.

http://www.zombietech.tv/

why you should buy a arduino

To start of the list of reasons you should buy a arduino  #1  there just flat out awesome. The type of arduino that i use the most is the arduino uno.
#2 you can do anything with arduino from blinking a led to making a animatronic Friend.
#3 you will learn how to program.
#4you will use it almost every day.
#5you will be able to do hundreds of arduino projects .
#6 you can buy my led cube shield.
#7it will give you endless hours of entertainment and fun.
#8you could make your own shield and make money off of it.
#9it will open a whole new world to you.
#10you could make it respond to twitter or tweet.
I could go on forever.

Anthem teen builds on his interest in gadgets

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Anthem teen builds on his interest in gadgets

Fundraising

FUNDRAISING has begun again.

In order for us to go to Maker Faire San Matteo, Detroit and New York - we need to fundraise around $6,000.00. Geez, that sounds like alot - but we did it last year so we can do it again!

The fundraising button on the right is ready to be used again. 

Thanks for all who helped last year!

instructables

i published a instructables yesterday on my 3x3x3 led cube arduino shield and withen 1hr it was featured and i got a 3 month pro membership :) . it allready as 969 views. http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/ it is the 3rd one to the right.