Michael created the Hack-a-Sketch – An Arduino board reads the inputs from two potentiometers (the knobs), and sends the information via USB to a Processing sketch which displays the path of the stylus on the screen. This was extremely easy to build because the Arduino is just running the StandardFirmata firmware. No custom code on […]
This iPhone macro lens carousel mod is a great way to recycle that pile of scavenged optics you’ve got laying around.
SparkFun BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer, interesting Sparkfun product placement. Nate writes – That is an officer of the law holding up a device that was found within a ‘PIN pad’ in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I didn’t know what a PIN pad is, so here’s a wikipedia article and google images. From the article […]
MAKE Japan is having a meet up, check out this iPhone instrument! It looks like 3 iPhones mounted to a laser cut body and the player “blows” to produce music!
Here are some gift ideas for your favorite creative skeptic, guerrilla artist, or depressed teenager.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Virgil England’s life-size dragon skeleton installation in Alaska’s Chugach National Forest. A lot of readers were curious about the elaborate back-story that England has created for his fantasy armory work, so Virgil himself pointed me to Debra McKinney’s article from the Anchorage Daily News of last May that explains more:
Omg, omg, omg. This is the ultimate in creative terrarium recycled containers.
