Sparkfun posted a helpful collection of circuit design tips for avoiding problems at the fabrication house. Very handy for reducing the stress and suspense involved with handing over your designs for production – Designing a Better PCB
Simple but fun, the Major Output pixel art site let’s you create and post your own simple pixel graphic – plus browse through a big collection of other’s work. My resistor and capacitor contrubutions can be seen in the mix above. – Major Output
Jason writes on Hackszine: The “$1 Recognizer” is a simple gesture recognition algorithm created by Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research and Jacob Wobbrock and Yang Li from the University of Washington. By simple, I mean that it’s under 100 lines of code that you can quickly add to your application to give it gesture recognition […]
It’s still sunny and warm here in Texas, so I’m checking out any kind of cold-weather crafts I can to at least try to feel like seasons are changing. These Tomorrowland Trees from Wise Craft are doing just the trick. I love their simple shapes and the cozy effect of using felted sweaters.
Not sure how this could be used practically outside of the lab and human response research, but it definitely looks like a relatively cheap and easy way to gather GSR data in a non-intrusive way. Galvanic skin response computer mouse
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, nickjohnson writes: I made a strange piece of modern furniture with concrete and LEDs. I built this by first constructing a mold out of MDF, and by embedding LEDs into the surface of the mold. The control/batteries are located behind a panel on the bottom, and all the wires […]
Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes | mov | 3g2 Here’s a video tour of CRAFT Magazine issue 9. Check out the special Green Craft section with 21 projects with an eco-groove. Learn to fuse recycled plastic bags to make a tote bag and hat, make folded fabric […]
