Howtoons is having a Halloween costume contest! The winning homemade costume will be immortalized in a Howtoon explaining how to make it for future generations. So dig up those photos of your fantastic costume and send them in by November 4th! (And, since it’s always cool to dress in costume, check out their special Homemade […]
Halloween may have come and gone, but there’s still 24 hours to get your entries in to our Make: Halloween Contest 2009.
Usually I write about ham radio. But looking at communication devices of the future from the past, I thought it would be fun to have a Star Trek: The Original Series Bluetooth communicator for a cell phone. I worked with Dave Clausen to hack one together from a toy Star Trek communicator, a Bluetooth module, and a microcontroller.
This is the second revision of my PIC based LED binary clock. The original version was the first PIC project I attempted, it used a PIC16F84A to do both the timekeeping and control the display matrix, unfortunately it didn’t keep good enough time and gained about a minute every week.
MAKE subscriber Justin Shaw has posted a project on Instructables for a bike brake lighting system that features lights on the ends of a bicycle’s handlebars, controlled by an Arduino and a Pololu 3-axis accelerometer. He’s even offering a $35 prize to the first person who follows his plans and posts proof of a successful […]
Thanks to everyone who entered our Crafty Chica Challenge: Create a Day of the Dead Shrine! The winners are in… Grand Prize Winner: Shawnee from Life with Monkey (smonkey on flickr) is the Grand Prize winner with this shrine paying homage to her late mother who died last year, as well as her father who […]
This ultra super cute sock monkey kit is on sale now at the Maker Shed. Blue, or peach? How could anyone decide?
