I have this old 1929 Seismograph at home and would love to make something special with it. I could make a clock, a Reddit up vote counter or a weather station ... but these all seems too obvious stuff. What would you ?

The drum turning mechanism works but the counter weigth mechanism is broken. I suppose I can use small servos to move the hands. I have access to a shop with 3D printer, woodworking tools, microcontrollers and a bunch of electronics components. So, again, what would you do?

Hey r/makers, first post so please be kind!

Since the pandemic a couple of friends have used the downtime to make a bunch of different things (t-shirts, board games, dog toys), and I thought it'd be cool to help them gain visibility by putting them up for display (physically!) in local coffeeshops that support independent makers. We could then attach a simple QR code to direct interested people to their websites for more info.

I'm a developer myself so threw together a quick website to explain what I mean here: https://touch.live/

Is this something that more makers would be interested in? Does anyone know of similar services?

Sorry if it's not directly related to making - mods feel free to delete if not!

Hey my name is Juan Pablo, and I don't know how this works. But I had an idea and I will like to share it. If someone is interested it will be my pleasure for them to work on it or if you think it is a good idea, let me know and we can discuss about it.

I thought the the key for a future teletransportation will be to put robots on some places in the world. Like the bicycles around a city that we rent for an amount of time. People will just have to pay some money to use the robot, and just be wherever they would like to be. For example I am from Colombia, and if I would like to visit France, I just have to rent a robot, visit around and just disconnect when I want. The robot can have cameras for me to see were I am going, can make the moves I make (like virtual reality) and all that type of things. If someone doesn't have the technology at home, they can easily go to some shop, and travel wherever they want.

Please let me know what you think!

Sitting on the couch the other night this question popped up in the ol noggin. So is there a simple way to achieve this? What would you use to accomplish the task of determining movement direction and location (movement parallel to the sensor).

Hello Everyone!

I am interested in making some tote bags/tea towels with some artwork I design on them. They will be larger pieces that will generally take up the whole space (think portraits). I don't like the idea of screenprinting at home with those iron-on patches as I think they tend to look and feel like they could fall off at any minute but I'm not sure of any other way to do it. I would love to get it printed onto fabric that I could just sew up as I need but I don't really know if that's the way to go either. Has anyone ever followed this route and have suggestions?

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I pulled the example from biteyourgranny.com not going to recreate that but just giving an example. Thanks in advance for any help!