How-To: Sew an Interior Pocket
Karyn of Fat Orange Cat shows you how to sew an interior pocket with a liner and hidden seams.
Month: March 2009
Bag ‘o Beans Easter Project
These brightly colored jelly bean bags from the purl bee just beg to be tossed about and played with. I love the story behind their inspiration: All of the women in my family are crazy about jelly beans. In fact, our husbands have been known to say “step away from the jelly beans, honey” on […]
MIDI control panel based on Arduino with a personal touch
From the MAKE Flickr pool Captain Credible created quite the cool controller using Arduino + 4051 multiplexer chips. The custom MIDI interface sports a plethora of controls including jacks to connect modular external control boxes as well – still, I think the best part is the labels – Hmmm … interesting enclosure – perhaps from […]
Making the 2009 Shmooball Cannon
Larry Pesce wrote in to let us know that he’s posted his build notes for this year’s Shmooball Cannon: Shmoocon (hosted by the fine folks at the Shmoo group, an independent security “think tank”) is a small hacker/security conference in Washington, DC, typically some time during the month of February. … They provide a foam […]
First shield pics for Arduino MEGA
Hack a Day reports on what appears to be the first shield created specifically for the forthcoming Arduino MEGA board. NKC’s prototyping shield is of course predictably longer and uhhh … mega-er. The comment thread over at NKC points out that their shield only has 2 holes for standoffs – apparently the massive connecting pin-count […]
LED badge hacking
From the MAKE Flickr pool Furan dug into an LED message scrolling badge to gain custom control – This is one of those el-cheapo led nametag badges. The inside of the badge had one of those gloptop chips between some pads for a smt chip, so I dremeled out the gloptop, reverse engineered the schematics […]
RFID sniffer workshop in Amsterdam
This workshop looks like it will be a really interesting combination of electronics and activism, soldering and information privacy. Build your own rfid sniffer from Marc Boon’s kit. If you’re in or around Amsterdam, I hope you can attend one of the two additional workshops they’ve scheduled since the first one has filled up, April […]