HOW TO – Triple Scoop Fabric Cone
Unfurled shares a free template pattern and sewing instructions for stitching up your own triple-scoop fabric ice cream cone.
Year: 2008
Classic handset gets bluetooth-ed
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Mightyohm gave a broken phone handset new life in the form of bluetooth functionality – by repurposing a discarded, semi-functional headset – Upon receiving it, I proceeded to rip the headset apart, interested to see what was inside. I found a fairly simple PCB with a discrete bluetooth module […]
The $20 gift guide at MAKE – Electronics kits for $20 and under!
Ok makers! We’re going to kick off some holiday gift guide action for 2008! First up – $20 and under ELECTRONICS KITS, we know holiday gift budgets are shrinking – a lot of us will have more time than money next year, so more than ever – if you’re going to spend your hard earned […]
Coffee cup speaker set
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Arms22 shares this oddly stealthy example of DIY audio – converting a couple of empty grandes into computer speakers using a TDA1552Q amplifier chip. Nice reuse – looks natural too! The relevant page is in Japanese but you can still check out the schematic – Coffee cup speakers
Peanut Butter Buckeye Bars
Jerry from Cooking by the Seat of my Pants shared his wife’s cookie contest-winning Peanut Butter Buckeye Bars recipe. I am organizing a cookie contest right now at my office so this is exactly the sort of inspiration I am looking for.
Engineers rule @ Honda…
Interesting article about Honda @ Forbes… At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda… Of all the bizarre subsidiaries that big companies can find themselves with, Harmony Agricultural Products, founded and owned by Honda Motor, is one of the strangest. This small company near Marysville, Ohio produces soybeans […]
Auduino synth project
The Auduino project turns Arduino into a PWM based sound synthesizer – Sound is generated by playing the same noise (‘grain’) repeatedly at very high speed. This merges into a tone that is an audible hybrid of the repetition rate and the original grain. The grain consists of two triangular waves of adjustable frequency, and […]
