And the winners are in! See all the winners of this month’s Whiplash Alt Craft contest over at Whip Up. This months contest caused a bit of debate as to the notion of alt crafting, read on for Kathreen’s thoughts. Shown here is a felted rocket by brain smatter and completely cactus’ cow necklace. I […]
The Real Elliot writes – “Got some scavenged stepper motors from printers/disk drives/etc lying around? Some probing with an ohmeter, followed by some simple driver code on your microprocessor and you’ll be stepping in style.” – Link. Related: GPL AVR USB – Link. Getting started with AVR microprocessors on the cheap – Link. HOW TO […]
Julian writes – “Flickr Photos of a completed “No Weld” recumbent. I always wanted a recumbent but didn’t want to pay the money. I built this “No Weld Recumbent” from bits found via the local FreeCycle mailing list and the local dumps and recycling centres. It’s taken about 4 weeks of weekends.” – Link. Related: […]
I can’t believe all of the cute things that are made from nuts on this Japanese Nuts Craft site. Take a look at the 49 pairs of mini shoes and little kitchen set, yup, all made from nuts. There are a few other things made from natural materials and fabric. Definitely click around in this […]
Ok Makers, thank you for your patience, the MAKE: warranty voider leathermans are in the store – Link. Related: MAKE: warranty voider – Leatherman “Squirt” preview (and details) – Link. How they were tested, etched and packaged – Link.
Jeroen made a 1-wire temperature sensing system, he writes – “When the central computer/network equipment hall of Tilburg University got new climate control equipment, the Unix system managers were anxious to get relevant information (mostly temperature readings) fed directly into their Nagios monitoring system. Several solutions were available, but none of them really looked good. […]
I love neelandan’s electronics they’re gritty – “This is a charger for lithium ion batteries which takes its power from the USB port of a computer. It uses the MCP73861 or MCP73863 Li-ion battery charger chip manufactured by Microchip.” – Link. Related: HOW TO – Vehicular 5V power – Link. Minty Boost kit – Link.
