TIffany Tomato Designs sells handmade goods made from recycled products such as wine corks, cake mix boxes, candy wrappers and more. She also has a bevy of DIY project how tos on her site like this umbrella skirt made from a broken umbrella fabric and this placemat made from a cereal box and milk carton. […]
Vassilis writes “A Tutorial Board for the PIC16F84A Microcontroller. This is a new design of a tutorial board based on the popular PIC16F84A microcontroller. It features eight single leds, a 7-segment display, an LCD display and five push buttons. It is an ideal solution for the beginner to take his/her first programming steps in the […]
Tikva Morowati brings us this report from a fellow student in the ITP program at NYU. Kate Hartman made a sweatshirt that vibrates when you complete a wearable circuit. The fabric I used for this particular model is called Kassel. It is made by Shieldex and can be purchased from from Fine Silver Products. Some […]
Here’s a directional Wi-Fi antenna made from Labatt’s Blue cans – [via] – Link.
Here’s another PCB making how-to, this one from Per Svensson – “In this album I’ll show how I go about making my own PCB:s in a really simple way. I don’t use one single tool that isn’t already available in your kitchen. No fancy etch tanks, pumps or uv lamps are needed. Read on and […]
The latest The Citizen Scientist has a good how to for making a DIY macro lens for a Casio EX-Z120 – “To assemble a macro lens for your camera, you need the cap of a film container like the one shown in Fig. 1. Use a knife to cut away the center of the cap […]
KABUKISTAR writes – “This tutorial will show you how to create an awesome-looking panoramic photograph, using a normal point-and-shoot camera, without any special lenses.” – Link.
