Pi Scarf
Craftster mellifluousfondue made a pi scarf for her boyfriend. The nice thing about a pi scarf is that you can really make it as long as you want.
Month: August 2008
Image scan MIDI sequencer
An interesting sort of update to the classic player piano design – The sequencer plays the notes as a arpeggiator, i chose for this playback method because i dont have a midi device that can play 24 keys at the same time.. There are 2 different arpeggio modes. One rearranges the playback sequence to the […]
Arduino guitar effects
Kyle writes – A friend of mine wanted a bitcrusher/samplerate reducer pedal for his guitar — I thought “you could probably do that with an Arduino”. The quality turned out surprisingly reasonable. I’ve released the code, which sets up the pins on an Arduino for doing 10-bit DSP at reasonable sample rates The design includes […]
Magnetic stripe card spoofer
We posted David Cranor’s Arduino card reader the other day, and today he wrote in with an even better magstripe hack: a way to simulate a card swipe using an iPod an electromagnet. David writes: When the card is swiped past the card reader, the changing magnetic field of the passing flux reversals induce a […]
Laptop / messenger bag with integrated tail light
My friend Mike made a lapop/messenger bag with an integrated tail light – When the magnetic snaps are closed it completes the circuit.
5 in 5: Day 4
Day 4’s 5 in 5ers drew like text, cooked like robots, threw and chirped, mapped and walked, made peace with sandwiches, strolled with Dada, arrowed electroluminescently, surfaced tubularly, put out 2 sea and put up with Zombies. We were proud to have Make Blogger and ITP alumni Jonah Brucker-Cohen as the Day 4 Guest Star. […]
Circuit City out to destroy all copies of MAD magazine?
Our pals at MAD magazine seem to be in the crosshairs of Circuit City.. The Consumerist writes… Circuit City headquarters has ordered their stores to “destroy all copies” of the latest issue of Mad Magazine, according to an anonymous tipster. The retailer apparently isn’t amused by the 4-page spoof of “Sucker City.” Inside, Mad’s 1-page […]