On Thursday night, I got to attend the Luv-able Hug-able opening at Gallery Hanahou for the second year in a row. It is always exciting to see so many of my favorite plush artists work in one room. Now, I am the proud owner of Katie Park’s Henry VIII doll from the series that we […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool 5Volt turned an old VCR’s vacuum fluorescent display into a headphone amp – VFDs are common on VCRs. I have a few of them I took from some broken VCRs. Last night I was working on how I could use them as vacuum triodes. I don’t have much experience with […]
The Purl Bee shows you how to combine thick felt and simple embroidery stitches to create these lovely Hanukkah coasters.
Instructables user action_owl created this fun keyless entry system using a classic NES, an Arduino, Processing, and a spare CD-ROM. Once activated NoKES (NintendO Keyless Entry System) will be blinking letting you know that it is alert and keeping guard. Once the Start button is pressed on the controller, the arduino starts recording what buttons […]
Probably the best way for you to make rapid effective progress on your project is to have a good idea of how you want the project to end up, and then identify the Simplest Problem that you can solve Quickly. In computer science, almost every first program is some variation on Hello World. Essentially, it […]
This “Magnetic Levitation Light Bulb” uses wireless energy transfer to power the floating bulb.The bulb is connected in parallel with a 100nF capacitor and copper wire coil and draws about 0.5 amps of current from the circuit below it. Check out the link below for the details on this interesting hack. via Hacked Gadgets
Dear Big 3, there is good news and bad news – the good news is, you’re getting a bail out – the bad news you can only make propellor cars from now on…
