DIY Earrings Frame
Teresa Franco made this simple earrings frame using plastic canvas inside a frame to hold and display all her earrings.
Year: 2009
How-To: Make a Zippered Coin Purse
Here’s a quick and easy project from Sally Hess on the Bolt fabric store blog for making a small zippered coin purse. I always seem to struggle with zippers, but this tutorial actually makes them seem manageable. As they mention, there are a million uses for a wee pouch like this. Enjoy!
Deluxe LCD hacking board
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member maan2k built this quite awesome board for hacking a variety of LCDs, he provides a rundown of the features – 24 PROGRAMABLE I/O LINES 8 CHANNELS ANALOGUE SIMULATION STANDARD ISP HEADER STANDARD RS232 6 DIGITAL INPUTS (PUSH BUTTONS) 3.3V / 5.0V / 8.0V PROVISION TO ACCOMMODATE WIDE RANGE […]
Tablet guitar creates art and music
Patrick Sébastien Coulombe’s Guitare à crayon project allows the user to create visual art and music with one instrument. The custom USB device makes use of Pure Data to generate sound and Gimp software handles the visual element. The feature list includes – Accelerometer X-Axis (for example controlling the octave) Accelerometer Y-Axis (for example controlling […]
Cameraphone microscope extension revisited
Back in March of 2008 we mentioned a class project from a group of UC Berkeley students working to develop a microscope extension for cameraphones. Led by Daniel Fletcher, the team has since updated their prototype, which is capable of acquiring objects at 1.2 micrometers across.
Workbench NES system
I don’t know how much work Miltron is going to get done in his shop, now that he’s built and installed this nifty little game system on his bench. It’s built using a NoaC (NES on a Chip) and a cannibalized PSOne LCD screen. Yet another use for The Maker’s Notebook — as a game […]
How-To: Make a simple arc light
In this brief video, MAKE contributing editor Bill Gurstelle demonstrates a simple arc light (a precursor to the incandescent bulb) using a length of carbon rod, a knife switch, some ceramic insulators, Nichrome wire, and an 18-volt power tool battery. How to Make an Arc Light