HOW TO – Make Tin Can Covers
Meg from Elsie Marley wrote a tutorial for making tin can covers with hand embroidered designs. She also includes some designs that you can use for the embroidery. Related Tin Can Organizers
Month: May 2008
HOW TO – Sew a Cape Dracula
Geri from Sewable just finished a free pattern for Cape Dracula. It doesn’t look so much Transylvanian to me as it looks plain awesome. Thanks Meg.
Arduino Wave Shield pitch-control demo
Limor of Adafruit Industries posted this video demonstrating how the Waveshield kit can turn Arduino into a sample-bending audio tool. Consider for a moment that potentiometer replaced by – oh let’s say – photocells or maybe a force-sensing resistor. If you’ll excuse me – I’ve got some experimentation to go do – Wave Shield for […]
HOW TO – build a talk box
For those unfamiliar – a talk box device allows the user to modulate an instrument’s waveform by changing the shape of their own mouth (see the oft-cited “Do You Feel Like We Do” by Frampton) Though many examples can be found on the ‘nets, this instructable shows a nice straightforward method for building your own […]
The Making of the Pentultimate
Cool puzzle (and making of) over @ Puzzleforge, thanks Erin! In early 2007, I made a pencil sketch of a deep cut vertex turning icosahedron puzzle. I later realized this ground had been covered by others before in dodecahedron form, including Christopher Pelley, who coined the name “Pentultimate”. The first Pentultimate was completed on March […]
Flying bike for Google Earth
“Some guy who’s never met Mike” wrote in to tell us about Mike’s Flying Bike, a completely unconventional flight-sim interface created from a bicycle, a Sun SPOT sensor/microcontroller, and Google Earth. So, you pedal this stationary bike to pick up speed and take off. Then you manipulate various hand levers and the handlebars to affect […]
Breadboard power supply hits both rails
Chris writes – David Fowler at uCHobby has introduced his new-and-improved breadboard power supply, which is both an excellent introduction to soldering technique *and* a useful tool for further electronics work. Indeed it is a nice little board – with additional header pins to bring power out to both sides of the board and add […]
