How knives are made
Joel Bukiewicz crafts amazing knives in his little Brooklyn studio. Cool Hunting has a video going inside his workshop for an interesting look at how his fancy fancy knives are created.
Month: October 2008
Arduino shield triggers a gameboy with any MIDI device
This cool shield hack for the Arduino controller called the “ArduinoBoy” lets you interface it to any MIDI input to trigger sounds on a standard Gameboy. To get started, just use an existing Arduino protoshield, and scrap the breadboard for some custom circuitry and components outlined at the link below. ArduinoBoy, via Create Digital Music
DIY Air suspension system
Nice DIY Air suspension system… Gadget Freak James Kinney was looking for a way to take the pressure off the back end of a tow truck when it’s carrying a heavy load. If you can equalize the pressure of the truck bed so all the weight is not on the back end, there will be […]
Blogs We Love: Scrumdilly-Do
It’s time again for another installment of “Blogs We Love”! All week long, we Craftzine bloggers will be sharing some of our personal picks for the blogs that keep us clicking. Stay tuned for more from my fellow bloggers! Jessica Wilson (a/k/a Jek) is one of the craftiest people in cyberspace. Not only does she […]
Bugging the real world
This article shows how to hook up an Arduino to a “Bug” machine from BugLabs over the USB port. Pretty cool way to make the Bug even more interactive outside of its existing attachments and have it effect things in the physical world. Bug 2 Arduino, via Arduino Blog
DIY: Crush Room
Here is a project that will really impress the neighborhood kids. It’s a “Crush Room”, complete with spikes, skulls and blood! What else do you need for Halloween? Oh yeah, candy! The point of this room (pun intended) was to get the kids into a closed room, then have spikes emerge from the ceiling and […]
HOW-TO get Microsoft to subsidize that netbook purchase you’ve been putting off
Great post from Brian @ Hackszine on getting a netbook on the cheap! He writes… Things I learned today: Microsoft is encouraging people to use Live Search by running a generous rebate program. At times (such as this morning when I bought an MSI Wind), the rebate can reach 30% or higher. eBay sellers techtreasure […]