Sometimes the solution for an everyday problem is so simple it takes thousands of years for someone to fail to overlook it. Take this clever concept for a flower pot that leans over to signal you when your plant needs watering. Jonah @ Makezine writes: Unlike some plants that call you on the phone when […]
House on Hill Road shows you her step-by-step method for sewing a zipper into a pillow cover. This is a great skill to learn, especially if you want to be able to remove the case and wash it. Link.
Peter Bennett, a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast, made this sequencer that you program with ball bearings. It has four tracks: kick, snare, hi-hat, and cowbell. – [via] Link.
You knew somebody was going to do it. This is a Macintosh 512k which I upgraded to run OS X by replacing the innards with a modern Mac Mini and various supporting components, including a grayscale CRT monitor, an LS-120 floppy disk drive, and a microcontroller-based USB device that interfaces the Mini to the original […]
thingm is just about to release BlinkM! – Have you wanted an LED that can fade from deep red to bright purple? Flash like a police light? Turn on with the subtle fade of an incandescent bulb? Flicker like a candle? That’s BlinkM. We’ve attached an ultra bright wide-angle RGB LED to a microcontroller. Using […]
Show your dedication to rock’n’roll with this killer felted guitar necklace by Etsy seller 3FUN. Link.
Thomas made this simple tutorial on how to dampen the loud sounds of your Rock Band drum pad controller using some self-adhesive foam and felt. I think the color coding would help me play the game better, too! Thomas shows a video with altered and unaltered pads so you can hear the difference. (Thanks, Matt!) […]
