As promised here’s how to make your own Tweet-a-Watt, a twittering power meter that can show your friends, your followers and the world how much power you are (or are not) consuming. We entered this in the Green Gadgets design competition, wish us luck! We’re calling it “Wattcher” for now and some of the documentation […]
Don’t look if you are currently vulnerable to a chocolate craving! DesignSponge went in the kitchen with Wendy Dooldeniya and our reward is a recipe for a Chocoholic Torte.
Instructables user imaseahawksfan made these LEGO valve stem caps for his motorcycle. I think they look great, and this technique is easily translated to all sorts of valve stem caps. I’m thinking they would look great on my bicycle!
(image of solar-powered 802.15.4 node from Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk) The Christian Science Monitor has an article on wireless sensor networks being used to sense and gather data from the environment: The hand-sized yellow objects poking up among the lush canopies at Camalie Vineyards aren’t a new variety of monster grape. They’re electronic devices […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool ALH84001 wanted to use a surface mount 3-watt LED off-board but they’re quite dependent on a PCB plane to drawing away all that hot, hot heat. Hmm, what to do? his is an Everlight EHP-AX08LS 3-watt red LED, soldered to a piece of bus bar, which was then crimped to […]
Learn how to transform your favorite photograph into a pop-up photo at wikiHow. via Dude Craft.
Mike Una points out this demo of Denha’s discreetly modded Gakken SX-150 synth under analog sequencer control. A quick YouTube search reveals just how popular this kit has become. All this week we have a 10% off sale this week in the Maker Shed, use code “2009OX” at the time of checkout – Happy Chinese […]
