Lucky Charm Bracelet
Sublime Stitching patterns can also be used for Shrinky Dink fun. Kids can make themselves a Lucky Charm Bracelet with this tutorial perfect for St. Patrick’s Day.
Month: March 2009
The Series visits the HypoSurface
Find more videos like this on Hollywood East TV Hollywood East is a new movie studio being planned and built in Plymouth MA. As part of their buildup for creating the studio complex, they have a daily webisode called The Series, which details many of the aspects of the project.
Embroidery Hoop Chandelier
I’ve seen a lot of fun uses for embroidery hoops, but I’m finding this one from Pam at Gingerbread Snowflakes especially charming. Using simple pearl embroidery floss, she’s attached her hoop to her chandelier and then, using ornament hooks and thread, she’s hung ornaments and trinkets for the season. Because they are not permanently attached, […]
How-To: Sample sequencer w/ Meggy Jr. + Arduino WaveShield
From the MAKE Flickr pool Solipsistnation posted detailed info for the excellent MeggySeq project (we recently covered) – MeggySeq has 8 patterns of 16 steps each. You can set each of those steps to play one of 8 WAV files on the waveshield. You can play the pattern back, stop it playing, and change the […]
DIY bike signals with accelerometer control
From MAKE subscriber Justin Shaw comes the UberLight – a dual LED matrix bicycle turn signal an brake light. An interesting design using accelerometer to determine braking, plus basic switches for indicating turns. The project uses an Arduino in combination with a couple of serial-controlled red/green matrices. Riding with this setup should get some much-needed […]
Solve a Rubik’s Cube with Blender
Youtube user Petitblenderman has a great video of a Rubik’s Cube solved in a Blender animation. Danny says this looks reasonably solid. You may remember Danny’s laser cut tactile cube post by Collin. Looks pretty legit to me. The cube’s colors are all in the right place, although I was a little confused at about […]
Ultraviolet printer creates glowing text
MAKE subscriber mtbf0 used a MiniPOV kit to create this rather sweet UV printer – This is a video of a phosphorescent text display that needs a name. It’s a minipov3 board with uv leds. It has a built-in 5×7 font and room for over 900 characters of display text. When passed over a phosphorescent […]