Month: March 2009

CRAFT Site Maintenance

Hi Crafters! We’re performing some site maintenance tonight officially at 12:01am PST (3:01am EST) and likely continuing for at least 8 hours. Comments, and the rest of the site, will become READ-ONLY until mid-to-late morning on Tuesday PST. Please bear with us during this down time as we add some new features! See you soon!

The Eye-Pod Victrola

The Eye-Pod Victrola

The folks at Steam Gear Lab made this wacky fully-functional Eye-Pod using a 1st gen Nano. Steam Gear Lab has broken the chains of small electronics obsolescence. Behold! The Eye-Pod Victrola! From MAKE magazine: Check out MAKE, Volume 17: The Lost Knowledge issue! Buy your copy in the Maker Shed Subscribe to MAKE Access the […]

MAKE magazine classifieds

MAKE magazine classifieds

You may have noticed that we introduced classified ads, aka the Make: MINImarketplace, in MAKE, Volume 17. If you’re interested in placing an ad in MAKE, Volume 18, send email to classifieds@makezine.com. You will be returned instructions on how to sign up for an account at the Maker Shed, and from there, you’ll have access […]

How-To: Ultimate helping hands

How-To: Ultimate helping hands

Wow, I’ve never seen an electronics station helping hands setup as extravagant as this one by instructables user mblasberg: Need a Hand? This is a mashup of several very clever instructables and an Article from MAKE. While soldering and working on circuits I was having a lot of trouble holding wires/components for soldering and also […]

Hardware/software synth for Arduino

Hardware/software synth for Arduino

Gijs posted details for building his “Hardware” Software Synthesizer 2 project using Arduino compatible parts. His prototype combines all components onto a standalone board but it appears this could easily be adapted to a standard Arduino. Altogether, it’s a whole lot of functionality with a relatively low part count. Features include – 6-bit resistor DAC […]