“Danger Shield” for Arduino
Zach Smith’s new “Danger Shield” for Arduino. This looks excellent for learning!
Month: April 2008
Flea market finds – Unreleased Atari EPROMS
Gism Butter’s finds at a local flea market via Waxy. Today, we went to the Laney College Flea Market. As usual. I know I’ve written about the amazing things I’ve found at this swap meet. In the past, I got a Game & Watch, and oodles of rare old console games. But today, I found […]
HOW TO – Make a Leather Bound Book
Jared from ArmorGeek wrote a tutorial on how to make a leather bound book as a good starter project for the first time leather worker.
HOW TO – Make a Wallet from a Leather Skirt
A reader wrote in about Katie Jean’s tutorial for making a wallet from a thrift store leather skirt on See Katie Sew. It looks like suede to me, but it is still a great idea. Thanks Jessi.
Tarantulas jug band @ Maker Faire
The hills of Bay Area Maker Faire shall be alive with a whole lotta music. Make sure to bring your feet for tappin’ because the Tarantulas will be in attendance! – The jug band tradition emerged from Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 20th Century when poor but creative individuals built their own instruments from […]
Audition for MAKE: TV at the Maker Faire!
Hey Crafters! If you are interested in auditioning for our new national TV series MAKE: TV, read the graphic above and come out to the Maker Faire to audition!
Encoding JPEGs client-side in AS3
I’ve been doing a bunch of Flash Actionscript 3 development lately at work, and one of my favorite features with the new drawing API is the ease and speed with which you can rasterize vector data and manipulate image bitmaps. What’s killer is that Adobe’s as3corelib addon library finally gives us some essential tools that […]
