San Francisco underground icon (literally) John Law will be appearing on the History Channel’s Cities of the Underworld. Scott Beale writes on Laughing Squid: Laughing Squid’s own head of special projects John Law will be featured tonight and tomorrow on The History Channel show “Cities of the Underworld” hosted by Don Wildmon, a series where […]
Bill sent in this cool project that uses an Arduino and a WiiFit balance board to control a marble labyrinth game. It looks like a lot of fun! [Thanks Bill] Plug an Arduino and two servos into a wooden labyrinth board game then add some programming and a WiiFit board and you have instant fun. […]
John Park shows how to make a Digital Television Antenna. Check out the plans for building your own. Check out the comments below to see how people have modified our design, and the success some people have had. If you do anything differently or better, be sure to leave a comment in the blog! Watch […]
Photograph by Pat Molner Surface Mount Soldering Techniques for making modern circuits. By Scott Driscoll When cellphones were housed in briefcases, manufactured electronics had easy-to-solder leads. Now phones fit in pockets, and the smaller surface-mount devices (SMDs) inside are driving through-hole components into extinction. SMDs can cost less than their old-school equivalents, and many newer […]
Baking Bites helps us take Rice Krispie Treats to the next level by adding layers of peanut butter and chocolate. Bye bye, New Years resolutions!
Folding Trees tips us off to this tutorial at Go Make Something showing us how to make clever greeting cards from craft-punched paint chip samples.
Matt of Liquidware brings us the elegant and able-bodied open source Illuminato – an Arduino compatible featuring 42 I/O pins, Atmega645 (2x code space of ATmega168) and chic white LED backlighting – Great standout details on the board such as the side-mounted reset switch and symmetrical layout in black/gold. More videos, info, and insight to […]
