Reversible Baby Bib Pattern
Made by Petchy has a free PDF pattern to make this reversible baby bib. Petchy writes: Perfect for a “let me whip something up last-minute” baby gift! The little “doll” is made from the scraps from the neck hole.
Year: 2009
The Prism laser synth-guitar
MAKE subscriber Jeff made this really sweet laser synth-guitar that he calls The Prism. The Prism is a laser guitar, with four laser beams acting as “strings” that can be held to produce a tone. A Sharp IR range finder detects the musician’s hand on the fretboard to change the pitch. You can select sine, […]
How-To: Dollar Store Tie Dye
Heather Mann of Dollar Store Crafts has a guest post over on Make and Takes on using simple Dollar Store supplies to create a safe and easy tie dye effect.
MIDI-controlled fire beats
Psylab shares this vid of MIDI controlled pyrotechnics at Firefly 2009 – Fire Cannon created by Rob Darman. The cannons are controlled by MIDI notes being sent from Steven Asaro’s Roland V-Drums. Special thanks to Jeff Mission for MIDI technical support and translations via GlovePIE. Plus – not to be missed, their cover of MJ’s […]
One-minute PCB etching
Jim, from TechShop, has a nifty how-to on Instructables covering the sponge and Ferric Chloride method of quick n’ dirty PCB etching. He writes: This weekend I tried this sponge and ferric chloride method to etch 3 Arduino shield boards I am prototyping for our RFID-enabled member access system at TechShop (TechShop is the 15,000 […]
Portland Tool Libraries
We got this message from Clifton Burt: The Northeast Portland Tool Library is a non profit lending library of tools located at NE 20th and Killingsworth Sreet (Portland, OR). Open on Saturdays and Wednesdays, the checkout of the tools is free; it works just like a lending library for books. It began a year ago […]
Record and playback library for WaveShield
The WaveRP library makes audio recording possible with Arduino(ATMega328), WaveShield + simple mic preamp circuit – WaveRP is an Arduino library for recording and playing Wave files with the Adafruit Wave Shield. It records 8-bit mono files at 4,000 to 44,100 samples per second. Use of the Wave record/play library, WaveRP, requires the following: Arduino […]