Turn signal bike jacket
Leah Buechley used her LilyPad Arduino to make this soft circuit turn signal bicycle jacket, great for spring – Link. Related: LilyPad Arduino – Link.
Month: March 2008
HOW TO – Make Whiskey Peanut Fudge
Here’s a chocolatey, booze-filled treat that sounds just right for a grown-up sort of party: Whiskey Peanut Fudge! Celine shares her quick and easy recipe et Have Cake, Will Travel. Link.
HOW-TO: 3D anaglyph using SLRs
(He’s either trying to steal your glasses, or cast ‘telekinetic sphere’ – can’t tell.) If you can get your hands on 2 same-model DSLR cameras, consider the following: Anonymous writes, This site suggests a way to do stereo photography with two digital SLR cameras, a home-made rig, a remote to sync them together and suggests […]
HOW TO – Shatter glass with your voice
The cassette tape company Memorex seared the image of Ella Fitzgerald shattering a glass with her voice into many people’s collective memory in a television commercial that ran in the 1980s. With the right tools, good pitch, and a strong voice (or an amplifier), you can do this at home. How to Break a Glass […]
Make a custom joystick from a hacked PS2 controller
Here is some nice documentation on a PS2 controller hacked into a retro joystick. Pretty cool details on the construction at the link below. PSX – Link
Cathedral of Junk
Once a bible school teacher, now a full time maker Vince Hanneman is the owner and creator of the Cathedral of Junk in Austin Texas (in the lo-co area, also called lower congress). Tons of “junk” are donated to this 3 story pile of worship, he estimates there are over 700 bicycles part of the […]
Voltmeter + Ammeter LCD panel
This is a very well documented build, and could be a great addition to any workbench. Apparently the builder added the meter to a 0-30 VDC stabilized power supply, pictured above, to charge batteries. All the schematics, PCB layouts and .hex files are available on the site. This multimeter was designed to measure output voltage […]
