MAKE subscriber Justin fused the convenience of digital music with the feel and playback functionality of a cassette – It is a cassette tape adapter and a micro usb port hooked up to a tiny mp3 player that I picked up at target. Its a simple build and only took an evening. Its an on […]
Dubbed EasyPay, each unit will consist of a iPod touch and a special case which houses a barcode scanner, card reader, extra battery and mini-USB connector. The system runs custom POS software and uses a Pogo Sketch stylus to capture cardholder signatures.
You kind of have to see this thing move to get the point. The brand name is RevolveR and apart from novelty, the “floating spine” binding seems to serve no particular function. Still, it’s pretty delightful, and seems to operate on the same principle as the toy commonly known as a “Jacob’s Ladder”
Pretty amazing costume build tutorial from Instrucables user Incrxtc.
It has LED health and mana bars, LED magic power in the gloves, and an LED, er, “touch-sensitive fairy companion.” There’s one Arduino for the gloves and status bars, and another for the companion.
Mark Frauenfelder and Dan Woods got sent this letter about the latest issue of MAKE, Volume 20. We got the sender’s permission to post it here: Mark and Dan, This is Jim Kelly, the freelance tech writer in Atlanta. Hope you guys are doing well. Just wanted to write and tell you how impressed and […]
Want to rock out, but forget to bring your instrument? Then you might want to check out Instrumentube, a collection of YouTube-based instruments that you play by dragging the video time slider to match up to the correct note.
