A user on the LadyAda.net forums has created an arduino shield for controlling a first-gen SNES audio processor. No samples up as of yet but this could prove to be much 16-bit fun. – Arduino SNES audio shield [via] Related: Making Arduino sing, Part 4 In the Maker Store: Arduino Diecimila
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member Dippold turned an old olive tree into a pinhole camera – I have used the cavity of the olive tree as “camera obscura” of the photocamera. It is equipped of a shutter. This shutter works with a method of carrucolas. The camera has an internal device that support […]
This looks really useful. Google recently released an API for using Gadgets and visualizations inside of (or pulling from) the Google Docs spreadsheet system. Developers can create useful visualization models, like Gantt charts or geographic heat maps, and Docs users can use these tools inside their own documents. The Gadgets in Docs framework also allows […]
One of my favorite talks at ETech this year was Saul Griffith’s – approaching our power needs as an engineering problem, while I think there are a lot of talks devote to identifying the problems this might be the first one that has a goal and actionable plans. But, it’s not pretty and it’s not […]
Etsy seller JesseDanger has created this amazing precision clockwork-style insect – Modeled after the largest modern species of dragonfly, this is a functioning creation whose wings flutter up and down when the very tip of the tail (really the abdomen, but tail sounds cooler) is turned. The inspiration for this complex mechanical insect originated from […]
Reader Erica points out this story about a resourceful British maker – A British businessman fed up with being targeted by vandals has installed a 30-foot Roman-style catapult on the premises to hurl bucket loads of chicken manure at culprits attacking his rural offices. […] The defense arrangements, which include priming the catapult with chicken […]
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