UK product designer Soner Ozenc makes these inaccurate, though attractive, Tetris mirrors. I remember learning to make glass mosaics with a scoring tool and the edge of a table, so certainly this effect could be achieved with those glass tiles from the hardware store. I think this makes a nice detail to the top of […]
Dave writes in to tell us about his LED color-shifting Guitar A bass guitar I made with LEDs that pulse and color shift while I play. The LED control is just a few programs and uses Pulse-width-modulation to control fading and color selections. You can use whatever you want to control these. This isnt really […]
Mark Rehorst and his son Alex had a Cub Scout cake auction fundraiser to attend, and decided to make something a little less traditional than a cake. Mark writes: I’ve had a few microbiology classes and cultured many different types of bacteria on different media, and I happened to have a case of pyrex Petri […]
A user on the LadyAda.net forums has created an arduino shield for controlling a first-gen SNES audio processor. No samples up as of yet but this could prove to be much 16-bit fun. – Arduino SNES audio shield [via] Related: Making Arduino sing, Part 4 In the Maker Store: Arduino Diecimila
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member Dippold turned an old olive tree into a pinhole camera – I have used the cavity of the olive tree as “camera obscura” of the photocamera. It is equipped of a shutter. This shutter works with a method of carrucolas. The camera has an internal device that support […]
This looks really useful. Google recently released an API for using Gadgets and visualizations inside of (or pulling from) the Google Docs spreadsheet system. Developers can create useful visualization models, like Gantt charts or geographic heat maps, and Docs users can use these tools inside their own documents. The Gadgets in Docs framework also allows […]
One of my favorite talks at ETech this year was Saul Griffith’s – approaching our power needs as an engineering problem, while I think there are a lot of talks devote to identifying the problems this might be the first one that has a goal and actionable plans. But, it’s not pretty and it’s not […]
