Diane at CraftyPod and her partner, Katin Imes, created this fantastic puppet theater for Katin’s nephew. They started with a cardboard box base, and covered it in layers of duct tape to hide the graphics printed on the box. There are some fantastic little engineering bits that you have to read about to believe, and […]
One of my favorite projects from MAKE Volume 17 is the BeatBearing Tangible Rhythm Sequencer by Peter Bennett, a Queens University Belfast Ph.D. student in the Sonic Arts Research Centre. Playing with the sequencer is mesmerizing and addictive! It’s a great way to see a physical incarnation of making electronic beats and rhythms.
John Duksta writes in with news that DC401, the Providence-based group that hacks electronics among other things, is planning a hacker con: The hacker spirit runs deep in Rhode Island. We were the first state to sign the Declaration of Independence, the last to ratify the Constitution, and the American Industrial Revolution began here with […]
The whole FPV (First Person View) R/C flying hobby fascinates me. I’d love to try it at some point. This system, being developed by a French maker, is a board that plugs into the video camera system used in a FPV rig to provide a heads-up display with useful flight, navigation, and power information. Looks […]
Overall superstar Moxie made this “invented fabric” for a class project, it’s hot glue and aspirin tabs. More: Vicodin Earrings on MAKE Hot Glue Sculpture
Joe posted an interesting overview of inventory & assembly, fulfillment, new marketing, sales and Linux/Mac support at Saleae – I really like their logic analyzer (not OSH, but one can hope!)…
Barney made an RSS Reader using an AVR mega8 via Hackaday. He writes – I spent part of an afternoon developing a hardware RSS reader (most of my time was spent on the python side of things). It’s pretty simple and uses an AVR microcontroller connected to a computer via a serial cable. I am […]
