I finally gave in and decided to post footage of me testing my OMG super secret musical DRSSTC. I designed it last year as a paid commission for a Danish arts group who wanted a chorus of six musical coils that could be played by MIDI. I made a single prototype to test it here, […]
If you’re going to take photos of Fireworks for the 4th, here are some handy tips – [via] – Link. Here’s one I took last year (geocoded too).
Here’s how to make PCBs from the Head-Fi forums – Link. Pictured here, our Primer on PCBs… Related: Printed Circuit Boards. Step-by-step instructions for making your own PCBs at home. MAKE 02 – Page 164 (subscriber’s – log in). Lots and lots of PCB articles and how-tos – Link.
A Maker in the forums was looking to make a LED display that can read RSS feeds, here’s a start – Atharsia writes – “Check out [this site] for a circuit that can be used to drive a matrix of LED’s that can be driven to display alphanumeric characters. You should be able to just […]
Toc writes – “This is how I attatch my Kite Aerial Photography rig to the kite string. It is just a cheap caribiner I picked up at the local hardware store at the cash register. The string at the top is the kite string and the stings at the bottom are the line from the […]
Ben heck has a new prototype NES portable – “This uses a different kind of NES on a chip motherboard and is actually even smaller than my original nPod. It has an easy-to-use sliding battery pack (4 AA’s that last a long time) and clean, simple styling. And lo and behold it has a headphone […]
There’s a Starbucks in Washington that has a bicycle powered blender and the customers make their own drinks or something (I couldn’t find any information on why they’re doing this or which one in WA, but there was a video on Keith Obermann last night). So, here are some resources around the web on bike […]
