I needed a clock for a top secret project (coming soon) so I decided to put together the LED Clock Kit from the Maker Shed. The LED clock is put together by twisting wires together and doesn’t require any soldering, which makes it an easy beginner electronics project. Since the box has a picture of […]
Built by the British Royal Society of Arts to bring waste and recycling issues to the public eye – Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment(aka WEEE) Man weighs in @ 3.3 metric tons – What is he made of? Firstly, large household appliances, such as washing machines and television sets make up a large part of […]
Frostedminipete kicked his PT-100 keyboard up quite a several dozen notches by adding the following very effective circuit-bends – Starve pot [simulates dying batteries…low pitch, etc] Lead distortion pot Snare/hihat/bass distortion pot Bass drum distortion pot Chord distortion pot Warbly/wahwah switch Pulse 1 (fast) switch Pulse 2 (warbly/slow) switch added 1/4″ output w/ speaker on […]
It’s CYBER MONDAY MAKERS! So in that spirit we were able to do up a quick code/sale for all our robot kits for today. It starts at 12:01 am PST 12/1/2008 and ends today at 11:59 pm PST. Use code CYBERM at checkout at the Maker Shed. I’m also going to do a contest. It’s […]
Alex Weber, of Tinkerlog, who’s brought us such wonderful projects as the programmable LED (featured in The Best of Instructables) and synchronizing fireflies, now offers kits for both of these projects in his new Tinkerstore. Synchronizing Firefly kit sells for 11.50 Euros (about $14.40) and simulates a firefly with a tiny microcontroller. If put together […]
Bre visits Dam Stuhltrager gallery in Brooklyn to check out an exhibition of breathing books created by artist Edith Kollath. Each book’s surreal movement is controlled via Lilypad Arduino, likely chosen for its thin easy-to-conceal profile which keeps the art looking properly book-like. Unfortunately, the art’s clever design proved a heap of trouble for the […]
Google’s Code University is another great “bootstrap education” resource for CS students. I’ve written previously about other free resources for the self-guided software engineer, such as MIT’s Open Courseware and Standford’s Engineering Everywhere. While Google Code University currently offers a smaller subset of courses, it’s all geared toward topics related to large scale web application […]
