HOW TO – Build your own two-photon microscope
Here’s how to build your own laboratory microscope and see really really really small things! Includes diagrams and instructions – Link.
Year: 2007
The Pac Man Electric guitar
SPECIMEN Custom Guitars made an amazing Pac Man Electric guitar – The Pac Man Guitar. This guitar was made in 1998 at the request of Dave “Timely” Winer of the Howards and the Baltimores. He called my bluff after I replied, “Not only can I build it, I can make the headstock blink as well!”. […]
Softies: The Movie!
They’re alive!! The softies from the Softies book come to life with the amazing stop-motion animation by Andrew Moran with Christina Loff from Chronicle Books. I love seeing all the little characters and of course, spotting the new issue of CRAFT: 05! All the softies finalists are announced for the Holiday Softie Awards! Check them […]
Face recognition for cigarette machines
If you look old enough you too can light up and smoke (in Japan) – [via] Link.
CRAFT: 05 The Paper Issue on Newsstands Now!
CRAFT: 05, the Paper issue, celebrates the wonderfully diverse world of paper projects from making paper bead bracelets to wrapping your holiday gifts in recycled style. You’ll also learn how to sew your own party dress, transform a T-shirt into a sleek skirt, knit and felt slippers, make a modern heirloom quilt, build an optical-illusional […]
MintyPOV
How to make an Altoids tin version of the MiniPOV! – It seems that everyone and their mother is cramming various projects into mint tins these days. Well, that’s a bandwagon that I just couldn’t resist jumping onto. The only question was what project to build? I ordered a MiniPOV3 kit from the Makezine Store, […]
New stuff @ the Maker Store…
We have some new things @ the Maker Store, check ’em out… – Link. Making Things Talk Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. Open-source physical computing platforms with simple i/o boards and development environments have led to new options for hobbyists, hackers, […]