HOW TO – Reupholster an Ottoman
Curbly shows us how to turn an outdated thrift store ottoman into a stylish showpiece with the help of wood stain and new fabric. [via One Pretty Thing]
Month: January 2009
SSerial2Mobile – SMS library for Arduino
This looks like a handy library for mobile-enabling your next Arduino project: This library implements the Software serial Arduino library to establish a serial connection to a Mobile phone. The methods methods hides the AT+ commands from the user allowing messages to be sent by passing the method on a phone number or email and […]
Physics of music and musical instruments
Tufts University has a really good book available online about the physics of music and musical instruments. It’s a nice balance between theory, examples, and hands-on projects. The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments covers the physics of waves, sound, music, and musical instruments at a level designed for high school physics. However, it is […]
Best of Instructables excerpt: Mousebot revisited
Here’s another Make: Books PDF excerpt. This one comes from the Best of Instructables, which is a compilation of some of the most amazing projects from Instructables, the world’s biggest show and tell. This excerpt is kind of special to us. In it, former Make intern Jacob McKenzie riffs on a project by Gareth Branwyn, […]
HOW TO – Folded Paper Hearts
World of Whimm shows us how to create these quick and easy folded paper hearts to decorate for Valentine’s Day. [via The Crafty Crow]
Austin Event: Dorkbot
This beautiful flyer, by Joey Lopez, says it all: If you’re in / near Austin, hope to see you at next Wednesday’s Dorkbot!
Building papercrete domes
I blog about Mikey and Wendy’s projects very frequently because they’re doing so many cool things. One of the most impressive is their papercrete dome, which is now documented in this Instructable: When my girlfriend (Wendy Tremayne) and I arrived in southern New Mexico one of the first things we did was look around for […]