Lenore and Windell at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have cooked up a tasty alternative to candy message hearts: shortbread custom message cookies. I personally enjoy the chalky flavor that NECCO has to offer, but I understand that many of you would prefer these cookie alternatives with custom messages sprayed on with stencils. More: CRAFT Valentine’s […]
photo by sadnoiss on Flickr Gakken recently released a relatively low cost deluxe theremin. Complete with iconic antennae configuration, the instrument sounds quite nice indeed. After a brief tour through relevant user-made vids, I suspect it’s inspired many to actually learn how to play music the easy-to-pick-up-difficult-to-master device (and that’s cool in and of itself) […]
Make: television, Geek Squad and Science Museum of Minnesota are extremely excited to announce the first public event based on Make: television called Make: Day! Make: Day celebrates the ingenuity and inventiveness in our community. Building off the success of Maker Faires and the American Maker events, Make: Day will give local engineers, artists, tinkerers […]
I received a lot of positive responses from my last “In the Maker Shed” videos, so I decided to do another. This time it’s the Mignonette game system. It’s really easy to make, and a lot of fun to program. You can pick one up in the Maker Shed. Mignonette is a do-it-yourself electronic game […]
Please join me on a tour of Elaine Bradford‘s Museum of Unnatural History, where taxidermy and crochet are both taken to the next level. (thanks, Gar!) For Museum of Unnatural History, Houston-based artist Elaine Bradford has created a faux natural history museum filled with a variety of animals and specimens “discovered” by the fictitious fringe […]
Nathan from Sparkfun gives an excellent demonstration of sending code to AVR chip wirelessly with Xbee and the Sparkfun wireless bootloader. As he explains the setup easily tolerates a break in connection during transmisson – We’ve posted a new tutorial describing how to reliably download code to an AVR ATmega168 using a XBee serial link. […]
We scored a very limited supply of Arduino Duemilanove in a variety of 10 different colors. Pick your fave flavor and specify upon ordering – we’ll do our best to fill all requests. And won’t you be the envy of your hacker-space when you roll up with a white/red/goldenrod Duemilanove! – Arduino Duemilanove And don’t […]
