Here’s a great music project you can build with an Arduino… Beavis Audio Research writes – This is my first build using an arduino microcontroller. I wanted to create a simple tone output device along the lines of the 555-based atari punk console, but using solely the mcu as the tone generator. Unfortunately, that was […]
For those of you who didn’t catch our previous post about seam carving, it’s a smart image resizing algorithm, invented by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan. Where you would normally have to choose between cropping or squeezing/stretching an image to change its aspect ratio, the seam carving method will attempt to find horizontal […]
Dale has a really interesting post about ACCRC (Alameda County Computer Recycling Center). ACCRC had a great event/booth at Maker Faire this year… – Let’s imagine that you set up a non-profit to recycle electronics and divert computers from going directly into landfills or otherwise being destroyed by a grinder. You look for ways to […]
Kevin Kelly points us to these amazing pictures of chandeliers made from recycled plastic bottles in certain parks in St. Petersburg, Russia. No information is given about who made them. There are so many different styles, many of which are very elaborate. Recycled bottle Chandeliers in St. Petersburg – [via] Link.
Leave it to London Fashion Week to uncover some of the cutest eco-fashions like these shoes made from recycled Kimonos by Hetty Rose. Read more about her work in the TreeHugger post here. Link.
MAKE is listed in The Scientist’s list of “favorite life science blogs” – we try and include enough science here for Makers, if you like what we have been cookin’ vote for us! – Link & vote (add a comment with your vote).
From the CRAFT Instructables group, antelucandaisy shows you the basics of color picking 101 and how you can confidently choose colors for all your craft projects. Link.
