Inspired by a particularly excellent episode of the IT Crowd, Flickr member iamthechad built this device which contains the entirety of the internet … and it has a power switch … which should under no circumstances ever be used! If you’re scratching your head right now, go watch this. – The Internet!
Gallery Hanahou presents Forget Me-Not: embroidered love from the new craft movement. For generations, women have expressed love of family through the painstaking art of embroidery … a new generation of embroidery artists using needle and thread to depict love in broader terms, whether idealized and simple or brutal and complicated. Curated by Kristen Rask […]
Pete from Sparkfun made some digital level meters with a decidedly analog feel. Some op-amps and an ATMega168 on an LCD backpack board make the magic happen. – Let’s first define the problem. I’ve got an AC signal that I need to turn into a simulated needle movement. Where am I going to get the […]
Make subscriber Trevor built a simple drawing interface using Arduino and Processing – There are two potentiometers (horizontal and vertical) plugged into two of the analog inputs of Arduino. The board reads the state of the two potentiometers, and sends them as an ordered pair via USB (technically, it’s via serial, but there’s a built […]
I was introduced to Parallel Kingdom today in discussing mobile applications with a few friends. It’s a role-playing game designed for cellphone users that you can play on the iPhone or Android. The gameplay is what you’d expect: killing dragons, teaming up against enemies, upgrading weapons. What’s different is that the environment is a Google […]
Inspired by this Ipod nano case, I decided to try making a case for my iphone out of scrap bike tubes and/or tires (every bike store seems to have tons in back). Here’s my favorite version: the tube goes in the tire, just like on your bike:) That version’s a bit bulky, so I typically […]
With a patch to both the Android kernel and browser, Luke Hutchison was able to add usable multitouch support to the T-Mobile G1. If you aren’t concerned about updating your firmware, this is a hack that you can use on your device today, despite this not being an official component of the device’s design. I […]
