LED Eyelashes
Ladies and gentlemen, I just figured out what I’m doing for Halloween: LED eyelashes by Soomi Park. [via Fashioning Technology]
Month: October 2009
The Steel Yard’s Iron Pour fires up in Providence on 10/30
Watch the Iron Guild fire up their furnaces for the 4th annual molten metal spectacular. In the past they’ve brought us fiery hearts, zombie kings, and glowing skulls. This year…pumpkin casting and a giant flaming Jack-O-Lantern!
Easy Cherry Cream Cheese Danish
These cherry cream cheese danish from Niesz Vintage Home look so yummy and easy to put together. I can’t wait to try them for a special breakfast soon!
How-To: TV modulator from salvage
In need of a way to transmit a video signal to an aging antennae-input TV set, John rigged up a working RF modulator from salvaged parts (plus 5V supply) – I decided not to build my modulator from first principles. A simple design with a UHF cavity oscillator and simple sound and vision carrier and […]
CD scrounged drawing machine
It’s actually a drawing machine. It’s built from
two stepper motors I salvaged from come old CD-ROM drives.
You can’t see it in any of these pictures, but in its
current incarnation, it has two pots each of which controls
the movement of one of the two motors: for moving the pen up
and down or left and right.
Thumping, squawking, & soldering @ the first Handmade Music Austin!
There was no shortage of attendees (or noises!) at Austin’s first Handmade Music event. The mass kit-build was a definite success, with all participants bringing home fully-functional mini sound modules. Kit designer Eric Archer came equipped with 25 different capacitor recipes for his Mini Space Rockers – thus keeping the sonic landscape fresh – and […]
From BoobTube to SmartTube
Tired of reading all of those racist, anti-Semitic, gross, nasty, hateful, and just plain dirt-dumb stupid comments on YouTube? Now you can make everyone as smart as a rocket scientist, or at least as smart as a Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and prankster, juggler, painter, bongo player, and lock-picker), namely Richard Feynman. FeynTube is a Greasemonkey […]