HOW TO – Make a rotary engine
Mazda celebrates its 40th Anniversary of the Rotary Engine by showing you how they’re made, the videos are incredible. Thanks Jason! – Link.
Year: 2007
Textiles and Design in Sweden
Get ready to get jealous. Holly Becker from Decor8 has posted about her trip to Sweden with pictures of all the great fabric and design items that she found. She is still there, and blogging, so check Decor8 for updates – Link.
Buccaneer’s Booty Socks
Ansley of Bleu Arts points us to these fabulous Buccaneer’s Booty Socks knitting pattern by Anne Kuo Lukito. [ via ] Link.
Serial library and binary data – getting chatty with Arduino and crunching numbers (Lesson 4)
Learning Arduino, programming, electronics? Here’s a MASSIVE tutorial on serial library and binary data with Arduinos – Ladyada is on a roll… Ah, Arduino, I remember when you were just crawling around and blinking LEDs. Now you’re ready to learn how to speak! In this lesson we’ll learn how to use the Serial Library to […]
Beaded Stitch Markers
Shannon points us to Crafty Daisies tutorial on how to make beaded stitch markers for knitting, using a toggle clasp (rather than a jump ring) so there’s no seam to catch on your yarn. Link.
Black Box lightshow
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rosendahl writes – I just finished this yesterday. Based on an original design that I built in college, this is an LED lightshow that plugs into any audio source. (I have it on top of our home entertainment system, so it shows whatever we’re listening to or watching.) The display […]
Animated ghost scares you into thinking you can build a better one
This animated ghost senses visitors presence and makes some “spooky noises” to try and scare them. Take off the white covering and its just a bunch of LEDs, a speaker, and a cheap microphone level sensor. Hmm, I wonder how long it took to come up with this device? I know we can do better. […]