Happy Halloween!
Hope you have a wonderful Halloween today! Enjoy the costumes, parties, and candies. I am probably going to go eat a whole handful of candy corn now.
Year: 2009
Quick and easy pumpkin cutter
From the MAKE Flickr pool Mark of Spikenzie Labs shares this simple recipe for a pumpkin cutter using a scroll saw blade and some duct tape. Looks like a good choice for those intricate/curved designs.
“The Famous Bay Bridge Crack”
Wow, lots of photos and info about the Bay Bridge in CA… seems like the “band-aid” to fix a crack is the source of the closing…
Cigar box music player
Cigar boxes are great containers for loads of things. I had a bunch on hand after going to the local wine shops and asking for donated cigar boxes. Inspired by the Rock and Roll Speakers project in Fashioning Technology, it seemed like a good idea to have my students build their own music player embedded in a cigar box. This is a major project, taking several weeks, though it probably could be done by an individual in an afternoon without introducing many of the concepts we’ve worked on.
Build an autonomous bassline generator
This is very cool – Dann Green of 4ms Pedals has posted schematics, code, and parts list for the Autonomous Bassline project. The ATtiny84 based module is also available in kit form with an optional heavy-duty enclosure. And if this thing wasn’t awesome enough as is – an infrared clock signal can be used to […]
Princess’ Peacock Costume
My friend Princess de la Rosa had her mind set on being a peacock this Halloween and she did a fabulous job of hand-crafting her costume. To make the signature peacock tail, she started with an ordinary paper and bamboo fan. She cut out a piece of cardstock in the shape of the paper portion […]
How-To: Eat a Pomegranate
How-To: Eat a Pomegranate – Natures Juice Box By Wendy Tremayne It is pomegranate season. Starting in September and continuing through February pomegranates all over the northern hemisphere are ripening. Native to Persia, popular in the Middle East and India, the pom is now cultivated all over the world. It was not until 2002, however, […]
