I stopped by the DIY Salon at the Museum of Art and Design last night. The place was packed with people learning how to decorate cup cakes, embroider shrinky dinks, create embroidered buttons and embroider paper. There was even a table for making LED throwies. Afterwards, I visited the Pricked Extreme Embroidery exhibit. My absolute […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool There’s just something special about a matte black finish – Daniel put some pics of this professional-looking air cannon in the MAKE photo pool. Very nice work, looks like it could pack a major wallop! – Link Related: Dual-chambered air cannon – Link From the pages of MAKE: HOW TO […]
Here are some straightforward designs for a closed captioning + XDS data decoder – and the circuit is simple enough to assemble on a small piece of perfboard. Kevin explains more – This is a closed caption decoder that sends the captoin text to a computer via USB. Using a comptuer to display the captions […]
Angela writes – This is a video of my take on the automated Etch-A-Sketch. It’s an EAS that automatically draws out the time then erases itself, every minute. It’s built on the Arduino platform and references Scott Fergerson’s awesome CNC EAS as well as Douglas Jones’s excellent site on steppers. Etch-A-Sketch clock on Revver – […]
Attention Philadelphia makers! This Saturday @ The Hacktory – The Hacktory in Philadelphia is holding it’s first ‘open hours’ for anyone to come drop in, and work on projects there. We don’t have a lot of equipment yet, but we do have some awesome helpful people with great ideas. We even have some folks coming […]
Peter Rakos wrote an article for Gamasutra today which demonstrates how to hack yourself a simple 3D engine by subverting an Excel worksheet. It’s not going to win any FPS awards, but the fact that you can even get Excel to draw raw shapes blows my mind. In his demo, the worksheet is used to […]
Modish just posted a “Handmade Spaces” tour featuring photos of the Chicago workspace where accessories designer Miss Alison whips up her colorful vinyl creations. The light and organization in this space is totally inspiring! Link.
