Necking Knitting Pattern
Use up your extra sock yarn with the free Necking pattern from the Spiraling Review. Instructions are included for knitting the sock scarves with sticks or a toy knitting machine. via Lime & Violet.
Month: September 2008
HOW TO – use Arduino as a high voltage programmer
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool If you should accidentally disable the reset pin while programming an AVR chip, you’ll lose the ability to rewrite to it using common ISP programming devices. To make the chip writable once again, you’ll need a ‘high voltage programmer’ that runs off of 12V. With an Arduino and some […]
Need a Tech Makeover Contest – Deadline Coming up on October 6
Hi Crafters! The entry deadline of October 6th is coming up close for the Need a Tech Makeover contest. Just submit your story or nominate a friend for a chance to win a $5000 tech makeover and training from the experts at Hot Hardware. And as a judge, we’d love to see some pictures or […]
Full body etch-a-sketch
Ben writes in with this interesting experiment in body control – The project “no strings: recursive” has drawn inspiration from the mouse-based turntable interfaces that you blogged a while back. In this work arms and legs are used to control the mouse pointers of two separate computers allowing me to write (or draw)two different things […]
Google Gadget that monitors Arduino sensor data
Matthew Karas sent us a hack for creating an iGoogle homepage interface for physical measurement devices. Using an Arduino and a python script, he found a clever way to send real-time sensor data to a Google Gadget, and it doesn’t even require having a web server. I managed to hack up an arduino to upload […]
Drum kit shirt
Begging for a remake, ThinkGeek sells this drum kit shirt with actuators for each of the different drum sounds and a speaker right on the shirt. Via Buzzfeed.
We’re doing it again, 10% off *everything* in the Maker Shed Store use code CRZYDAN
Okay, we don’t do a lot of promotions or discounts at the Maker Shed, but last month we ran a “Dog Days of Summer” promo. A ton of you responded gleefully. But some folks cried foul because you were squeezing in that last week of vacation before school started and you missed it. Fair enough. […]
