10 Minute Halloween Decoration: Fish/Monster Lampshade
Matt Mets used paper cutouts to decorate the outside and inside of his lampshade to give a nighttime monster effect!
Year: 2008
Old iBook finds new life as lighting
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Sheesh, I know laptops are getting a lot lighter these days, but this is ridiculous! Yosoyelger shows off what at first appears to be an iBook of divine power, alas it is an old shell repurposed as an Applelover’s choice lighting fixture, which of course is still quite neato. […]
Casper’s Bronze Heart
Casper’s brother made him this totally sweet bronze sculpture using Styrofoam and a LEGO minifig. Via Brothers Brick
LED Heart Brooch
I made this LED heart brooch using a kit called the Open Heart which is basically a bunch of LEDs on a circuit board in the shape of a heart that easily hooks up to a microcontroller. I used conductive thread to attach it back-to-back with a LilyPad Arduino, which runs the animations on the […]
PIC based fractal synth
Aris built a PIC chip based fraktalSynth from Catweazle’s designs which have been making their way around the Synth DIY community of late. The project was first posted on circuitbenders.co.uk apparently generates sound sequences based on fractal math – and the results certainly are interesting. Listen to samples and read more about the project over […]
DIY Halloween : One Man Electronic Band
From the MAKER: Basically, I wanted to build some kind of LED matrix driven by an Arduino and laptop for some kind of Halloween costume this year. I ended up using Disney’s Electrical Parade song as the inspiration for my costume. As you can see from the video, the matrix cycles through random animations but […]
Maura Madden Q & A and CRAFTERNOON Book Giveaway
CRAFTERNOON: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Crafty With Your Friends All Year Long by Maura Madden Buy the Book ($16.95) CRAFTERNOON: The Web site CRAFTERNOON: The Blog CRAFTERNOON is a book that speaks directly to the heart and soul of what I love about crafting: connecting with other people while engaged in the creative […]