The Creepy CRAFT Bundle from the Maker Shed teaches you all about making creepy adorable hand-sewn mini monsters. Before you know it, these little creatures will overrun your entire house. Start out your monster-making experience by reading the DIY hand-sewn, free-range, monster tutorial found in CRAFT, Volume 06. Next, crack open the DIY Mini Monster […]
We’ll be enjoying another helping of handmade & homebrew sounds this eve @ Brooklyn’s 3rd Ward. Handmade Music ringmaster Peter Kirn of CDM gives a preview – From Sarah and Lara Grant, we have a dress that makes music, with tube-like apparatus made of felt for connecting sound, modular fashion. From the raucous duo Great […]
I’ve been loving the Scrap Busters month over at Sew, Mama, Sew! They have been featuring loads of great projects that can be made from handfuls of scraps, and this zippy wallet tutorial really caught my eye. Contributed by Anna from Noodlehead, it’s got a great shape and the cutest little snap flap. I love […]
One of the great things about remaking simple projects is the extra time they allow us to add enhancements and a personal touch. Instructable member computergeek swapped out the LED bargraph from my EMF detector to create a single-digit numerical display version. Good idea – A while back I saw an EMF (Electromagnetic Field) Detector […]
Sam built a distinctly funky street stereo with a construction sign front panel and speakers rescued from the trash – nice aesthetic! The box makes use of a basic car stereo at the core – apparently even cheap ones come with USB and line-in nowadays. (finally!) Related: Turbo II, Junkyard Boogaloo – amazing boombox!
Using an Arduino Diecimila, breakout board, female PS/2 connector, and sundry components Ben has built an interface to connect a full-sized keyboard to his jailbroken iPhone.
‘Magnetic electricity’ discovered… Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice. Writing in Nature journal, a team showed that monopoles gather to form […]
