HOW TO – Simple Back to School Bags
Little Birdie Secrets has instructions for making these simple cinch bags that are perfect for back to school. There is just enough time to whip some up before the new school year starts (I think!).
Month: August 2008
Weekend Project: Mint Tin Amp
Build a powerful pocket amplifier for your headphones and put it in a “curiously strong” minty case.Thanks go to Warren Young for the original article in Make Volume 4.To download Mint Tin Amp MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mint Tin Amp article including schematics MAKE 04 “Mint Tin Amp”and […]
Learn to solder with Mitch Altman in Providence, RI
Mitch Altman is winding up his month-long artist-in-residency at AS220, and is giving one more workshop this week: a simple soldering project based on the MiniPOV kit, the Trippy RGB light: Anyone can make cool things with electronics! It’s easy! It’s fun! — No experience necessary! Mitch Altman (inventor of the TV-B-Gone and Brain Machine) […]
Weekend Project: Mint Tin Amp (PDF)
Build a pocket amplifier for your headphones and put it in a “curiously strong” minty case.Thanks go to Warren Young for the original article in Make Volume 4View the PDF
Atari PCB console
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Rob had PCBs made up for his layout of the classic atari punk console noisy synth circuit – Circuit board version of the famous Forest M. Mims circuit, for use in my upcoming workshop. (before anyone gets excited, these aren’t available for sale outside of the workshop, sorry!) Definitely […]
Tinysaurus
NYCResistor has been living it up with their new laser cutter (aka Lazzzor). After making the usual sized dino model, they decided to churn out a micro version. Know any other good object files they should experiment with? – Tinysaur is Tiny
Eerie sounds from the speakingObject
Jörg Piringer‘s speakingObject vocal synthesizer uses accelerometer control to create some very interesting sounds – during my 11 days at STEIM i did a working prototype of the second incarnation of the “speakingObject” (no better title still). it’s basically a vocal synthesizer controlled by two buttons and a three axis accelerometer. it works without a […]