Johan writes in – Imagine this: A 30 something bearded man in shorts with a multi-meter connected to cables out of an exercise bike trying to remain balanced an read the multi-meter at the same time as he is turning the pedals with one foot and listening to a beep from the multi-meter. My wife […]
In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to kite photography. In MAKE volume 07 the projects are: Rocket-Launched Camcorder by John Maushammer. Hack a $30, single-use camcorder to make […]
Lovely Delft ceramic style cross-stitch mantle clock. Bohus writes – I’ve never been into ornate and elaborate clocks – and that’s not just because I’m always late. Even though I’m clearly fond of crazy mechanical stuff, I’ve never really been a fan of Grandfather clocks for example. I’ve seen them most when awarded to alarmed […]
Stunning Kinetic sculpture @ the BMW museum – over 714 metallic spheres “float” in to place creating forms and shapes… via Engadget.
This is a nice article on how to identify and extract rotary encoders. It then explores how to decode your rotary encoder and has a little lesson on Quadrature Encoding. It does not go into extreme detail, but there is a lot of useful information. Some recent stereos do, especially ugly boom boxes and (non-ugly) […]
The Bee Source has a lot of useful information on bee keeping. What got my attention were all the free plans for building things like a honey extractor, solar wax melter and the Bee Vac. Most, if not all, of the plans have a web page and a PDF download. I never knew you could […]
I love this crochet maneki neko pattern that Kathy of Mountain Weaver Fiber Art Studio has made available on her blog.
