This is a fun little amp that is easy to solder and was designed to fit into almost any box. I stuffed mine into the same box that was used for shipping it to my house! Solder it up, pick a box, and plug it in! More about the Box amplifier kit
Dave and Dave from Hack Junk decided, sort of at the last minute, to enter the recent Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby. The video documents their build and their two race attempts. Hack Junk
Another great soft circuit tutorial by Hannah Perner-Wilson: Pressure sensors on your fingertips intended for use by children and their piano teachers to visualize the difference between “p” piano (soft) and “f” forte (hard). The pressure sensitive layers of fabric in the fingertips of these gloves are stretchy so that they can fit tightly. The […]
Oftentimes, the bounty of the season is, well, bountiful and more plentiful than can be used immediately. In my garden, the mint, parsley, and cilantro are thriving, and while I love using these fresh herbs in my cooking, I still have way more than I can use fresh. Enter our flashback for this week: a […]
One of my favorite soft circuit mavens, Hannah Perner-Wilson, has teamed up with Mika Satomi to bring you a new site called How to Get What You Want, a container site for all the totally rad projects they’ve been cranking out recently. Bookmark their site for your reference, I know I just did. I love […]
How space suits destined to be trashed in space are turned into homes for amateur satellites.
In this BBC piece, an IBM engineer on the Isle of Wight, shows off the 16th century thatched cottage that he’s wired with sensors and connected to Twitter. In the article that accompanies the video, he uses a term he’s apparently coined for objects that tweet: “tweetjects.” I’m here to try and stage a lexicographical […]
