I-Wei, a robot maker we usually see more on MAKE (as Crabfu), is having a baby boy. He painted this really adorable mural featuring Totoro from Miyazaki’s equally fun and kid-friendly animated film. The umbrella’s going over the crib. Check out the Flickr set to see the other elements around the room.
A momentary glimpse at a work in progress … sometimes those can be more satisfying than finished project.
Handmade Life shows us how they turned a plain IKEA wooden stool into a one-of-a-kind conversation piece using paint and some simple stencils.
I like the solution here for a horizontal accelerometer board on a vertical breadboard. At first he had the entire breadboard at horizontal, but this little hack is a more sensible solution. [This is from the balancing bot project I blogged about earlier]
Bit-music loving Arduino users – I ported (and modded a bit) one of the Noise Toy programs over to the lovely and talented Arduino platform. Just add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 – you’re done. Loud Objects’ code proved quite fun to […]
This is nice, it would be fun to put these all over the place, maybe adding a little red LED-throwie action too to make it appear it is “on”… papercraft CCTV cameras! via BB.
You can get 20% off *everything* in the MakerShed store, right now… Here’s a note from Dan! It’s hot here in Sebastopol. So hot, that the PG&E substation across the street blew a transformer and knocked out our power yesterday afternoon. So…. Under the category of anything is a good excuse for a promotion, we’ll […]
