I was giving a subscription to MAKE this year to a friend for Christmas, so I printed out one of the print-at-home gift cards to announce it. Here’s my Flickr set showing how you can add LEDs to a card using conductive thread and a watch battery with holder. It’s pretty easy and uses the […]
Gorgeous snow art in Seattle via Wooster Collective.
The sensor module for BugBases is out! – The BUGvonHippel. BUGvonHippel is a breakout board module which includes a female USB 2.0 port… BUGvonHippel - We’ve talked about it before, but it’s finally here! Named after Prof. Eric von Hippel at MIT who inspired it’s creation, the BUGvonHippel further enables developers to create new and […]
Star Wars maven Bonnie Burton interviewed Larry Lars, the creator of this wonderful Star Wars LEGO nativity .
Nobody was sure what exactly had happened to Christopher Robin after he’d left the Hundred Acre Wood, but they were thrilled with his gift certificates to the Maker Shed and the MAKE and CRAFT magazine subscriptions. Your friends will be thrilled, too! There’s still time to give gift subscriptions and Maker Shed gift certificates! Don’t […]
Super Electrofluorescent Profanity Machine via Giz. The Super Electrofluorescent Profanity Machine, or Four Letter Word (for short), is a bit of electronics cobbled together out of vintage Cold War-era Soviet vacuum fluorescent tubes and custom driver circuitry. It was designed and built by me. The device does two things: the first (mundane but utilitarian) thing […]
The Parallax forum has an interesting supercomputer project based on 11 Parallax Basic Stamp micro-controllers. This might not be a supercomputer based on Wikipedia’s definition, but it’s still an amazing accomplishment. This is the World’s First talking Basic Stamp Hobby Supercomputer!!! (and the World’s 1st Supercomputer built from hobby microcontrollers) It communicates by English and […]
