YouTube user lovelikerobots added lights to a neck-warmer a friend made for him and used a LilyPad Arduino and light sensor to make the lights blink when it’s dark. He’s got warmth, instant bike safety, not to mention style. Via Fashioning Technology.
Austin folks have the chance to hang with Sublime Stitching superstar, Jenny Hart, this Thursday at the Madewell Denim After Dark event. Jenny will be the resident talent at Madewell this Thursday evening- offering custom embroidery on blue jeans! The event is called “Denim after Dark” and they’re offering $25 off jeans, a complementary margarita […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool While working on a new board mightyohm grabbed some footage of his reflow soldering process – My AVR HV Rescue Shield has a 5V to 12V step up converter, constructed with surface mount parts (all 0805’s and one SOIC). This video shows the board being reflowed on my hot plate, […]
Ben Heck shows us how to trigger Guitar Hero 4’s kick drum switch by mouth – I had a request to build an alternative to the GH4 drum kit’s kick pedal for a person who uses a wheelchair. Tour apart the kick pedal and a few hours later came up with this: […] Basically this […]
Flickr user solipsistnation created this rather awesome sample sequencer using Meggy Jr. and an Arduino WaveShield – The Meggy Jr RGB from Evil Mad Science running MeggySeq, driving a Wave Shield from Lady Ada. MeggySeq is a pattern-based drum machine sequencer. It has 8 patterns of 16 steps each and each step can play one […]
Here’s a smart, easy, and fun reconfigurable marble course, made from PVC plumbing pipe, magnets, and a framed metal board. Kids can change the track shapes as they please. Sent to us by Jack McKee of Hands-on Books.
My friend Tom O’Neill got to hacking yesterday and created an uber-useful Twitter tool called HashTweeps. The idea is that you enter a hash tag, and HashTweeps will dig through Twitter’s search results and return a concise list of all the Twitter users who have tweeted with that tag. It’s a handy way to track […]
