Month: March 2009

Recipe: Southwestern Pumpkin Soup

Kristen Rask of Plush You! just had her second annual soup exchange with friends, and posted up one of their recipes for southwestern pumpkin soup. Now, I can safely say that’s it ‘s not pumpkin season here in the southwest, but for the rest of you this should take the edge off of that cold […]

Maker Channel Ep. 10 – Sunlight poem, Pedal-powered blender, Handmade theremin, Time-lapse camera

Make: television presents: Sunlight Poem – Ji Yeon Song’s one-day poem projector made of cardboard and sunlight. Pedal-Powered Blender – David Butcher outfits a bike with a generator that can run a blender. Handmade Theremin- Lorin Parker’s theremin works great and sounds even better. Time-lapse Camera – Jay Burlage hacks into a clock to create […]

DIY Pipe Organ

I really like the tones this DIY pipe organ is able to produce. I would love to see this adapted to an Arduino or other micro-controller so it could play by itself. Then again, I would like to see almost anything automated with a micro-controller! Hopefully this will eventually be turned into a full instructable […]

LilyPad protoboard

LilyPad protoboard

New from Sparkfun Electronics is the LilyPad protoboard, a way to easily whip up your own sewable electronics. Available in two sizes. This is a large board for prototyping through hole components with the LilyPad system. There are an array of pins all shorted together with 10mil traces. This allows for quick and easy prototyping […]