Care for the wide variety and uniquely plastic-sounding voices a general midi synth? This forum thread on electro-music.com details how you can make your own from an old Soundblaster daughter board – This is a very simple project that will allow you to add a GM Midi Module to your sound creation arsenal. It can […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made these ATmegaxx8 breakout boards that double as business cards. Windell writes: Our design goals for this project were (1) to make a printed circuit board version of the minimalist target board for the ATmega168, encompassing a place for the chip and a connection to the 6-pin ISP header, (2) to […]
Here are the slides in PDF format from the talk “Open source hardware” – this year there was a lot of hardware folks at Etech! Open Source Hardware Phillip Torrone (Maker Media), Limor Fried (Adafruit Industries) Open source hardware is a term slowly working its way into many new projects and efforts, but what is […]
For electronics projects simple and small, consider using an old 9V battery case It provides a built in snap, easily connecting it to a new battery for power. When using a battery as a case, keep in mind that: – the inside of the battery should be insulated (with blue masking take in my case) […]
These robots are definitely awesome, even a bit creepy – This work considers two issues: snake robot locomotion and modular robot design. We achieve snake robot locomotion by designing gaits, which are cyclic internal motions that allow the mechanism to interact with the environment to propel itself forward. Our gaits enable snake robots to maneuver […]
Someone in Atlanta created what appears to be a homemade Dalek to help deal with streetcorner criminal activity: Rufus Terrill has had it with the drug dealers, petty thieves and vandals he says roam the streets outside his downtown Atlanta bar, O’Terrills. Instead of calling the police or hiring private security guards, Terrill built his […]
Natalie @ CRAFT points us to a contest where your design could get etched on moleskine notebooks and sold! Modofly writes: Hey there artists! We had an amazing round last month with our super cool laser etched moleskines. Now its your turn! We are going to be doing a second and third generation of books […]
