Nathan from Sparkfun gives an excellent demonstration of sending code to AVR chip wirelessly with Xbee and the Sparkfun wireless bootloader. As he explains the setup easily tolerates a break in connection during transmisson – We’ve posted a new tutorial describing how to reliably download code to an AVR ATmega168 using a XBee serial link. […]
We scored a very limited supply of Arduino Duemilanove in a variety of 10 different colors. Pick your fave flavor and specify upon ordering – we’ll do our best to fill all requests. And won’t you be the envy of your hacker-space when you roll up with a white/red/goldenrod Duemilanove! – Arduino Duemilanove And don’t […]
Normally I don’t go for things made from real animals, but the photo set associated with Joe Kish‘s update of Hans Wegner‘s Teddy Bear Chairs is just too hilarious. He reupholsters vintage chairs for this fuzzy effect. Now, upholstering with real teddy bear fur would be a different story (leave the heads attached)! See the […]
Fans of the Stencil 101 book by Ed Roth will have the chance to meet the author and print Obama-themed tote bags at the Post-Inauguration Parties this weekend in San Francisco. See details listed below. If you aren’t in the San Francisco area, though, or can’t make one of those parties – don’t fret! You […]
Just a reminder, the CRAFT Valentine’s Day Project Contest deadline is Monday, February 9 at 4pm PST. Don’t forget to enter; you could win! We’ve made the prizes even better: two box sets of CRAFT! That’s eight issues, the first two years in their entirety, which come inside collector’s boxes. Rules: Design and make a […]
If you’ve ever wondered how felted soaps were made, check out this photo tutorial by FeltedChicken on Flickr. [via WhipUp]
The folks at EMS Labs like candy message hearts as much as the next nerd, especially when you create the messages yourself, but who likes the way these things taste? They don’t. So they came up with a larger shortbread version, a “grown up version” of a phony-holiday classic. Improved Custom Message Hearts
