DIY Halloween : Maker Fair 2008 – Gore Cannon
The title kinda says it all. If you make your own Cannon let us know. Enjoy.
Year: 2008
Singing skull
Modd3d has created a MIDI driven Halloween centerpiece of awesomeness – I ripped the brains out of one of those cheap Gemmy skulls with the moving mouth and glowy eyes and installed a Midify board. It was a fairly easy project and I now have full control over the mouth and eyes. Now I just […]
Atari Punk Keyboard
More good ideas for ways to use/bend/repurpose the atari punk console circuit – Remade a Atari Punk Console a friend of mine gave me and put it into an old toy keyboard that I accidentally broke during a circuit bending frenzy this summer. Especially good if you have some leftovers from a “circuit bending frenzy”. […]
OpenCores…
Some news on the the OpenCore open source hardware community, these are “digital modules called ‘cores’, since FPGAs have reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero” a lot of interest has sparked — OpenCores records 20,000 users and more @ EE Times…. OpenCores.org, a community developed around open-source hardware intellectual property (IP) […]
Dangly Spider Stitch Picture
It’s not too late to whip up a sweet, simple Halloween decoration, and since I’m partial to anything using embroidery, I’ve got my eye on this cute Dangly Spider Stitch Picture from Jenny at Stitcher & Scribbler. She says she whipped it up in the time it took to watch a movie, so if you’ve […]
Bring back the airships!
For this weekend’s Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention, the band Abney Park and Airship Ventures have teamed up to offer dirigible rides to conference-goers (for $785 a ticket). Airship Ventures just brought one of their Zeppelin NTs over from Germany and it will be moored at Moffett Field. MAKE contributor Todd Lappin was lucky […]
WiFi radio project
Over at the MightyOhm, Jeff has been working on building a streaming WiFi radio system (built around a Asus WL-520GU router): I have been wanting to build a streaming radio for some time. I frequently work in my garage, where I occasionally use my Macbook to play music through a small amplifier and bookshelf speakers. […]