M a 50+ PROJECTS k e : V o From Woodworking to Wi-Fi lu m e SPECIAL SECTION: EYE IN THE SKY 3 7 D ADerorinael VLiadweo •s 3 •D F Pirhsto-tPoegrrsaomn mFleigthryt R O N E S IS Now 6 times S a year! U E Autonomous DRO GPS Flight Controller N E B U Y E R 'S G U ID E $40 Wooden 49 Frame Speed U S IN Controller G G P S IN Y O U R P R O JE C T S 5 8 LU M IN O U S LO W T O PS HD Motorized Video Gimbal 6 6 LIC E N S E P HOMEGROWN LA T E G U ITA R DRONES! 76 T H R E E-D A Y K IM C HI FUN • PRACTICAL • EASIER THAN EVER US $9.99/CAN $9.99 ISBN: 978-1-44-36377-2 8 makezine.com 2 Build “Drawdio,” a simple electronic 1. Test-fit the components on the sound synthesizer mounted on a pencil perfboard. Designed by Jay Silver, then a student in the Life- and 7. Since the contacts are arranged to put the long Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, the user’s body into the resistive loop, the frequency Drawdio circuit plays a musical tone with a frequen- output by the 555 naturally varies depending on cy that varies based on the resistance between two what she or he is touching. The transistor amplifies 2. Cut and strip the grip and graphite leads. points. The wire wrapped around the pencil handle those pulses, which emerge from the speaker as is one point, and the pencil lead itself is another. audible sound. When you hold Drawdio in your hand, your body —Sean Michael Ragan, MAKE Technical Editor; becomes part of the resistive loop, and you can do Michael Colombo, MAKE Online Contributor all kinds of fun tricks, like draw yourself a piano and play a little tune! 3. Solder the components and attach The Drawdio circuit is based on the classic 555 the speaker to the perfboard. timer chip. To save space on batteries, we’re using a more modern low-power version of the 555 that will run on 3 volts, but otherwise it behaves just like a standard 555. Wired like this, the 555 operates in so-called astable mode, outputting a continuous stream of pulses from pin 3. The frequency of those 4. Attach the perfboard and battery pulses can be controlled by changing the values of holder to the pencil. the resistors and capacitors connected to pins 2 5. Secure the graphite lead to the top with a thumbtack. 6. Secure the grip lead with electrical tape. ADVERTORIAL M37_CV2-001_RS_Ad_F1.indd 2 12/12/13 4:11 PM Learn to build an analog sound synthesizer that piggybacks on top of a pencil! Parts list: Electrical tape 1. Test-fit the components on the Perfboard perfboard. 0.1µF ceramic disk capacitor Battery, AAA (2) TLC555/TLC555CP TLC555/TLC555CP LinCMOS timer (8-pin DIP) LinCMOS timer Thumbtack, flat, metal (8-pin DIP) PNP amplifying transistor Battery holder, 2 x AAA Resistors 1/4W - 10M, 270K, 10K, 10 Ω 2. Cut and strip the grip and graphite leads. 8 Ω mini speaker Double-sided foam tape 2 × “AAA” battery Hookup wire, 22AWG solid holder 100µF 35V 20% radial-lead electrolytic capacitor Pencil, flat with soft lead 560pF disc capacitor 3. Solder the components and attach PNP amplifying Tools checklist: the speaker to the perfboard. transistor Pliers, mini long-nose Wire stripper / cutter Soldering iron and solder Scissors Utility knife Straightedge 40 watt pencil iron 4. Attach the perfboard and battery Green florist’s foam (optional) holder to the pencil. For complete instructions and details on this project visit: radioshackdiy.com/drawdio 5. Secure the graphite lead to the top with a thumbtack. TM 6. Secure the grip lead with electrical tape. M37_CV2-001_RS_Ad_F1.indd 1 12/12/13 4:11 PM Written By Don Undeen Illustrated by Peter Strain CONTENTS COLUMNS Welcome 06 Reader Input 08 All Art is Made by Makers 10 Hackschooling 11 Made on Earth 12 FEATURES Shifting Gears 20 A student-built, world-class race car. FLIGHT OF Radically Cheap 24 THE DRONES Building machine tools from car parts to save the world. Here's looking at you: Inkjet Maniac 28 new platforms for Hacking printers for the sake of art. aerial imaging. 32 DRONES A D Flight of the Drones 32 The multicopter revolution is coming. Are you ready? L C Anatomy of a Drone 34 B Find your way around a modern multirotor UAV. B J I H G F Aerial Videography 36 Q Make fantastic videos from your multicopter or drone. World of Drones 40 Drones are already hard at work, from the pyramids to the polar ice. K P O Quadcopter Photogrammetry 42 E P R/C aircraft helping restore historic buildings in Cuba. N M A HandyCopter UAV 44 Build a cheap quadrotor airframe with video and autonomous flight. Drone Buyer's Guide 49 Q Take a peek at the new wave of drones available to buy now. L FPV Fundamentals 50 C Pilot your drone by seeing what it sees, with first person view. 50 66 x4 x4 J H K Q I Custom-Crafted Multicopters 52 Homegrown drones — you can build your own! No Man's Land 53 The legal gray area facing drones and their pilots. Quad Squad 54 These expert drone pilots are making quadcopters even cooler. SKILL BUILDERS Finding Your Way with GPS 58 Precision location data, via satellite. 70 74 90 Calling Out Around the World 62 Communicate with your projects anywhere they can see the sky. Sensor Smörgåsbord 64 123: Glider Launcher 83 GPS Cat Tracker 96 All-in-one sensing devices are cheaper & easier to use than ever. An inexpensive launcher that yields impressive flights. Find out exactly where kitty wanders all day. The Amateur Scientist 84 CNC Air Raid Siren 97 PROJECTS Track heat islands with data loggers and DIY sensors. It's loud, annoying, and fun! Luminous Lowtops 66 Chameleon Bag 86 Glow Plug 3D Printer Extruder 98 Snazzy sneakers with full-color LEDs that respond to your moves. An interactive messenger bag that reacts to your RFID-tagged objects. Make an extruder by hand using only a few tools and a diesel glow plug. Salt and Pepper Well 70 Toy Inventor's Notebook 89 Howtoons 99 Woodworking with a twist — use your drill press as a lathe. Stop ants from getting into the hummingbird feeder with a DIY moat. Build a nifty ripcord rotor copter with an emery board propeller. Library Box 74 Enough Already 90 Homebrew: Pinball Machine 112 A mobile, anonymous wi-fi file server from off-the-shelf hardware. Use an Arduino to mute annoying celebrities on your TV automatically. One man's journey to build a pinball machine from the ground up. Zombie Flashlight 75 Bass Bump 92 TOOLBOX Revive a dead battery to make this powerful pocket flashlight. Build this circuit to boost low frequencies and make your MP3s go boom. License Plate Guitar 76 123: Self-Filling Pet Water Bowl 93 Tool Reviews 100 A “resonator” guitar with a hand-wound electromagnetic pickup. Keep your pet happy and hydrated with this simple build. MAKE's recommendations for useful maker tools and materials. Remaking History 80 Bamboo Hors d’Oeuvre Tray 94 Books 104 Build the simple plane that defined modern aircraft. A few clever cuts and you’ll be serving in style. Text tools for your bench or bedside table. Three-Day Kimchi 82 Mini Blind Minder 95 New Maker Tech 106 Piquant, fiery, and fast to make. Train your blinds to automatically open when it's cold and close when it's hot. On the horizon for 3D printing, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi. 2 makezine.com M37_002_TOC_F1.indd 2 12/16/13 11:12 AM FPO Maker Profi le: RC Dragster Sports Ilo Floyd builds high performance frames and drive trains for RC dragster cars with his Tormach PCNC 1100. These dragsters are powered by Lithium batteries and race on a 1/10th scale quarter mile track that is 132 feet long. His record is 1.49 seconds at over 90 miles per hour. Learn more at www.tormach.com/dragsters. PCNC 770 Series 3 starting at: $6850 (plus shipping) Mills shown here PCNC 1100 Series 3 with optional stand starting at: and accessories. $8480 (plus shipping) www.tormach.com/dragsters M37_003_Tiertime_Tormach.indd 3 12/16/13 5:11 PM #readerinput makezine.com/xxxxxxx CONTRIBUTORS “One finds limits by pushing them.” What fantastic —Herbert Simon contraption would you love to build? 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Will be printed in the Feb/Mar 2014 issue of this publication. 17. Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner [signed] Heather Cochran, Business Manager, 10/01/13. I certify that all information designed aircraft. furnished on this form is true and complete. I understand that anyone who furnishes false or misleading information on this form or who omits material or information requested on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions (including fines and imprisonment) and/or civil sanctions (including civil penalties). 4 makezine.com M37_004_masthead_F1.indd 4 12/14/13 11:09 AM M37_005_Shopbot.indd 5 12/13/13 4:33 PM WELCOME makezine.com/37 Mind Your Drone WRITTEN BY DALE DOUGHERTY, founder and CEO of Maker Media. Not everybody likes the word drone — This helps set up the problem. We not vehicle. A drone then might be said to have a industry and military experts avoid using only need to figure out a definition for mind of its own. the “D word” in public. They prefer the term drones, we also have to figure out what Until such time, however, that “unmanned aerial system or vehicle” and they’re going to do — and not do. While responsibility falls on the person flying the associated acronyms UAS or UAV. Despite some agree that drones are unmanned, drone. When you fly a drone, you aren’t plenty of misgivings about military and others point out that they’re piloted, just a user — you’re a pilot. You must spy drones, the word drone has become preferring the acronym RPA for “remotely protect your equipment, yourself, and widespread and popular, used with great piloted aircraft.” That wouldn’t differentiate most importantly, other people. A bad or enthusiasm by hobbyists who hang out on drones from remote-control aircraft, but incompetent pilot can injure people or the DIY Drones site and by professional it emphasizes that a human, who can be invade their privacy. It’s not a lot different aerial photographers like the L.A.-based held responsible, is at the controls. A drone from owning a pet or a car. Drone Dudes. So what is a drone? can be operated manually or it can be Good pilots, like the Drone Dudes, worry The original meaning of drone is a male programmed to follow a fixed flight plan. that bad or careless pilots will garner bee. The body of a drone is bigger than all The distinguishing feature of a drone the public’s attention, create a climate of other bees (except the queen), but what seems to be the promise of autonomy. fear, and cause governments to restrict physically distinguishes a drone is a larger Today, a typical flight consists of switching or eliminate drones for commercial or pair of compound eyes. Yet drones have no between manual flight and autopilot. How recreational use. The reason we need bet- real work to do but reproduce. They make much further might it go? Given the right ter technology is that few of us are very late afternoon flights to what is called a instrumentation and the ability to process good pilots. congregation area, where drones gather that data, could a drone be programmed to For makers, the most interesting looking to mate with a virgin queen. Once make context-aware decisions, particularly challenge isn’t just building drones or these bees succeed, however (and they ones that humans are not very good at? A flying them. It’s discovering what drones perform this act in mid-air), the drones fall drone might detect problems before they are good for, what creative uses they have, out of the sky, having left an essential body occur, such as responding to gusts of wind and what tough problems they might solve. part behind. That’s all that drones do. or avoiding unexpected obstacles. A drone Otherwise, planes and quadcopters will The notion that a drone doesn’t have might also be able to communicate with be sold only as toys, not tools, and many much work of its own leads to a secondary other drones. people will discard them once they lose definition of a drone as someone who lives Can a drone be considered a robot, able interest in their playthings. We’re hoping off the work of others — a parasite. In fact, to obey Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics? drones become platforms for developing at the end of summer, the worker bees kick We need drones that explicitly avoid compelling applications that will push the the remaining drones out of the hive. They harming humans and can act to protect technology forward and adjust the bal- eat too much and do too little. They can be themselves from destruction. We should ance between the light and the dark side replaced in the spring. expect this much from any fully autonomous of drones. Vol. 37, January 2014. 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But it was electronics inventor Farnsworth who is credited with inventing the first completely electronic television. So to clarify, it was Baird who invented television and Farnsworth who invented the first fully electronic television. Your magazine really inspires me up from my seat to get involved and make things. I wish it would be more widely available in the U.K., as I’m sure it would inspire many young inventors and engineers. With this thought, I will be donating a yearly subscription to my old school. —Christopher Glasgow, Byfleet, Surrey, U.K. » Earlier this bucket and fell in, causing me to have to IN RESPONSE TO THE B9 CREATOR month my son strain everything again. Second, my brewing REVIEW IN THE MAKE: ULTIMATE GUIDE TO 3D PRINTING 2014 (PAGE 93): Tucker and I bag gets clogged up pretty fast. Strains followed William really well, but requires a lot of squeezing » I own a B9 and have been absolutely blown Gurstelle’s at the end to get all the juice out. Third, the away by the detail it is able to produce. I use instructions bottled cider flavor really reflects what you it for my business as a product designer and to build the put into it. The apples, for example, were for making N-scale model trains — where Homemade tarter than my pears. Fourth, the sugar it is able to match (yes, match) the detail Sugar Rockets added beautiful little bubbles. Haven’t of injection-molded parts. I had about 15 featured sampled the non-sugared bottles, yet. prints where I made various mistakes but in MAKE Without the suggestion of using a juicer, now it pretty much works every time, and Volume 35 I might not have made any cider this year. Mike Joyce [the founder] has personally (page 70). We failed, learned, failed some But your instructions provide a clear and helped me to overcome issues along the more, learned some more, and through easy path for a first-timer. Well done. way — as he has for almost everyone who persistence had great success and —Matt Friedrichs, via the web has bought one of these machines. I have improved the recipe to our liking, and no affiliation to Mike or B9, except as a hopefully to yours, too. I hope the following » I gotta admit, I’ve really been enjoying very, very satisfied customer. If you want notes on the process will help you with these practical examples of 3D printing small parts with exquisite detail (jewelers, this fast, easy, and super-fun project. that you guys have been kicking out lately small scale modelers, small product —Wayne Arendsee, Fort Worth, Texas (Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014, prototypes), then this is the machine for you. page 14, “10 Cool 3D Printed Objects,”). — Robert Fryers, via the web + Read Wayne's tips and tricks at makezine.com/fatherson/. We’ve seen years of 3D printers kicking » Thanks for the great tutorial (Volume out the same Yoda heads. I’ve frankly been » It’s worth stressing that this entire project 36, page 132, “Kitchen-Table Cider rather skeptical about the “3D Printing has been open sourced by Joyce. I built my Making”). My notes from one batch of Revolution” that’s been prophesized, own printer, loosely based on his designs apple cider and two batches of pear: and still am somewhat, but these posts and using his software, and he was incredibly First, the filtration bag gets heavy. I made are changing my thinking bit by bit. helpful as I was feeling my way through. A the apple cider without the bucket with —Andy Tanguay, Ann Arbor, Mich. very generous maker, with a very cool prod- holes and the bag slipped off the larger uct! —William Fredette, Worcester, N.Y. MAKE AMENDS: In MAKE Volume 36’s Country Scientist column, “How to Use LEDs to Detect Light,” in the schematic in Figure D (page 138) the LED should be reversed, with the anode connected to ground and the cathode connected to IC1-2. 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