News From The Future – Androids Kill Wi-Fi…
Underground app markets and rooted phones will make it possible for anyone to disrupt internet connections. Begun, the Android war has. Couldn’t the Cylons knock out electronics too?
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Jeri Reverse Engineers an HC55564 Chip from an Old Pinball Machine
In her latest Intersil “Academy of Analog Pinball Wizardry” video, Jeri Ellsworth replaces an HC55564 Continuous Variable Slope Delta (CVSD) codec chip with one she reversed engineered into an FPGA. What in blue-blazes is a CVSD modulator? Watch the vid and find out — as usual, Jeri does a great job of showing how it works, how she reversed engineered it, and what the result are.
Continue ReadingCrafty Events
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
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Make: Projects – Costume Minigun
From user Douglas Desrochers. The barrels appear to be PVC. They rotate around a piece of 1/2″ copper pipe, and a high-intensity LED is positioned to shine down the top one, strobing as the barrels spin. The whole thing is driven by the motor and battery pack from a cheap cordless drill. Let the Predator jokes commence.
Continue ReadingProject: Rolled Paper Pendant
Paper pendants composed of colorful quilling strips are fun and inexpensive gifts to make for young girls on your holiday shopping list. Because there are a zillion ways to mix colors and to shape the paper discs, no two pendants need be exactly the same.
Continue ReadingBaby Food: The Halloween Genius of Isabelle Baril-Ortley
By Garth Johnson CRAFT is excited to announce our new monthly columnist, Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, who will be writing about crafter extraordinaires. Welcome Garth! Isabelle Baril-Ortley knows how to kick it up a notch. When I was drawing up the short list of names for my inaugural Extreme Craft column for CRAFT, Isabelle’s […]
Continue ReadingDuran Duran Rio Mini Quilt
To this day I am still a giant, proud-to-be Duran Duran fan. I’m going to see the boys tomorrow night in Toronto, so to celebrate I created a mini quilt from the “Rio” album cover. To make the pattern I actually sketched the album and then started dividing it up into sections. I’m still getting […]
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