HOW TO – Fabric-Covered Lampshade
Cicada Studio has a tutorial up for covering a simple IKEA lampshade in fabric.
Month: February 2009
New York Times on Halted Specialties, electronics surplus in Silicon Valley
The New York Times has a writeup on Halted Specialties Company, which I can’t wait to visit in person: MOST retailers would recoil in horror at the thought of keeping unsold products on their shelves for 30 years. Not Halted Specialties Company. It’s willing to hold on to a few thousand vacuum tubes just in […]
RFID bending
Just another day of creative engineering over at Sparkfun – this time one of the new company RFID tags get a major makeover. In an effort to minimize pocket necessities, the antennae & chip are yanked from the ID card and crammed into a key fob. This limit’s the active range of the chip but […]
Don’t Forget to Enter the CRAFT Valentine’s Day Project Contest!
Just a reminder, the CRAFT Valentine’s Day Project Contest deadline is Monday, February 9 at 4pm PST. Don’t forget to enter; you could win! We’ve made the prizes even better: two box sets of CRAFT! That’s eight issues, the first two years in their entirety, which come inside collector’s boxes. Rules: Design and make a […]
Prototype This warehouse yardsale, February 8, 11am-3pm
Prototype This, the short-lived engineering show on Discovery Channel that offered a view into the real-life process of designing and building unique prototypes has completed filming and the production company is liquidating the warehouse on Treasure Island in San Francisco. They’re holding a yardsale on Sunday, February 8, from 11am to 3pm and will have […]
Sweet cupcake stepped tone generator (and more)
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member wayn3w cooked up the Cupcake Atari Punk Console with detachable photoresistor control – apparently capable of producing “nasty results”. Hmmm, looks innocent enough from this pic – Cupcake APC This one was built using a kit from GetLoFi – who, by the way, just posted a nice collection […]
Audio recording tips with Jack Black
After plenty of hours logged in front of the lens (and boom), Jack Black shares some basic audio-for-video recording tips. Sure, if available, a boom mic is always a smart choice but the direct-to-mic backup track may be a bit of a challenge to dub later on. For an intentionally campy feel, I recommend overdubbing […]