Month: August 2008

Fun with POV and Lissajous figures

Fun with POV and Lissajous figures

This week, EMS Labs has a nifty piece on Lissajous figures which Windell was able to generate using an LED display on one of the EMS Labs’ breakout board business cards suspended from an oscillation rig built from a file folder frame, wooden dowels, and BBQ skewers. Lissajous figures are interesting curves that occur in […]

Macrame Owl

Alice at Futuregirl gets back into the macrame action with this cute macrame owl using this vintage pattern. She even mentions our macrame iPod cozy from CRAFT: 03! From the pages of CRAFT: 03: “101: Macrame,” by Sherri Haab, pgs 134-139. Preview the article now in our Digital Edition. We’ve also posted up the full […]

Refrigerator Pickles

Matt L. writes in: I’m sharing this refrigerator pickle recipe because it is so easy there is no excuse for anyone who loves pickles not to try making their own. It is very open in that you can throw a wide variety of of vegetables in the mix without having to worry about them turning […]

Review – The VCO Chip Cookbook

Review – The VCO Chip Cookbook

If you’re interested in building an analog synthesizer then the VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) circuit is the best place to start. Oscillators form the core of the instrument, generating basic waveforms which are then shaped and shifted by accompanying components like LFOs, VCAs, and filters and then delivered to our ears as tasty electronic audio […]