Join us at the scheduled time for our fifth Weekend Projects Hangouts On Air. We’ll be talking with Jay Silver, maker of the Drawdio and MaKey MaKey musical invention kit.
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The Beatband Sleeve joins a long list of projects attempting to read the human-mechanical heartbeat and visualize it as an electrical signal. Whether using midi controllers or operational amplifiers or infrared technology (and more recently IR in combination with an op-amp), makers love wearing their heartbeats as pendants or simply displaying it numerically on a […]
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Whether you’re an aspiring singer-songwriter or simply want to focus on an instrument in one of your favorite songs, you’ll want to remove the vocals track. Hardware and software options are available, but what if there was a quick plug-n-play solution? Charleston, South Carolina-based maker Jeffrey M. Goller stumbled upon what would become the Song […]
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Use dual LM386 amplifiers to build this portable two-channel bass bump headphone accessory. The amps will give you an added boost of low-frequency spectrum that will immediately change the way you listen to music. It’s battery-powered and rechargeable so you can bump your jams wherever you go.
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Join us at the scheduled hangout time to watch LIVE as we talk with Akimitsu “The LED Artist” Sadoi about his LED color organ projects, and demo our own build of his circuit on solderless breadboard.
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Use an Arduino, MakerShield, and ethernet shield to build an automatic water dispensing system to fill up your pet’s water bowl while you’re away. The sensors connected to the circuit know when the bowl is low – and filled – with water, and it can even tweet when the reservoir runs out!
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Join us TODAY at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET for our second Weekend Projects Hangout On Air. We’ll be talking with MAKE Technical Editor Sean Michael Ragan about the Pedal Power Phone Charger, a simple AC-to-DC generator circuit for charging your cell phone (or any other gadget that sips a steady stream of 5VDC) while on the […]
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