Sergey wrote up this neat instructable on making a simple puzzle from paperclips – As a kid growing in Soviet Russia before Perestroika began, there were not that many toys, games and crafts available to you. This puzzle is an example of the game that we were making using simple tools from father’s toolbox and […]
Tom Ward, whose work will appear in The Best of Instructables book we’re currently editing, has just posted an awesome new “extreme business card.” It uses a matrix of 5×15 0603 LEDs driven by a PIC16F57 MCU. He says you can get the parts cost down to about $5 each in quantity. Not the kind […]
Cathy Pitters from Bossa Nova Baby and Crafty Wonderland will be teaching a Mexican Sugar Skull Decorating class this October at DIY Lounge in Portland. Sign up online now, before the classes fill up!
Matt LaBoone writes us – I was inspired by Kyle Downes (creator of the Giant NES coffee table) to make my own SNES Controller. I grew up more on the SNES, and figured that the Left and Right bumpers as well as the curved sides would give me a good challenge. I linked the pictures […]
You may think a Marx Generator is a device for spitting out strident communist rhetoric, but it’s actually a type of high-voltage circuit for spitting out HV pulses. This is probably one to put in the “Don’t Try this at Home” or “Touch = Die” file as we are dealing with current here that can […]
Rob sent us this vid from the Atari Punk Console workshop he tought @ Interaccess. Is it just me, or is the cacophony of 15 APCs noising at once actually kind of nice? The students look pretty enthralled by what they’ve made – very well done. More: Atari PCB console End of Summer special – […]
Samantha at Maquette shows you how to make mini journals showing you how to do this from easy to advanced methods.
