So, I have to give kuddos to Global Industries for doing the best job I’ve ever seen publishing information about a workbench. If you’re a maker that ships things for a living, this is a nice bench. Global isn’t an advertiser or anything like, they just did a great job with showing exactly what they’re […]
Ben writes in – So glad I found them with more than a week before Halloween — definitely making these! Look like real eyes, but they light up. They show you how to make the mask too! Never seen such detailed diagrams. You can print and then layout each component over the printout. I’ve never […]
Cheeto4493 writes in – I took the schematic and theory of a MiniPOV2 and adapted it to make a hat for Halloween. It is basically the same circuit as a MiniPOV2 but with a few different components to make it fit the hat better. As usual, I never take the time to document things as […]
“Human Pump” by Gunwook Nam attempts to solve the global water crisis by capturing kinetic energy generated by human foot traffic in order to power a large system of pumps to move clean drinking water to the earth’s surface in the form of a waterfall. Some very nice renderings of the design at the link […]
Mike Prevette, aka Freedomfromgravity, made a cool flashing lights/bleepy-bloopy raygun, driven by a PICAXE-08M. Blinky Sh*t
Normally, the Wii normally won’t allow SD Cards larger than 2GB, so larger cards such as the typical 4GB variety are completely useless for storing all of your games and save information. It turns out that with a few tricks, you can fool your Wii into accepting these larger cards. The hack, documented in detail […]
TouchCounters are interactive electronic labels consisting of modular electronic devices with an integrated communication and sensing system. They are attached to physical storage containers in order for someone to get a better idea of what is inside these objects. The project also has a Java component that will relay a container’s status and contents to […]
