Okay, here’s the deal. We’ve a huge amount of new inventory arriving at the backdoor to our warehouse in anticipation of Maker Faire. The problem is, we share a warehouse with the rest of O’Reilly and we need to clear out space to make room for the new stuff. So…we’ve sharpened our pencils and for […]
The Bare Bones Arduino Board Kit from the Maker Shed is a really inexpensive way to get started with programming in Arduino environment. The Bare Bones kit is easy to solder and program. Just remember, to program the board you will need a USB-TTL Serial Cable. Get ’em while you can, because once they’re gone, […]
Diane Gilleland of Crafty Pod has just released a new Ebook that gives an incredible depth of information to people looking to blog about creative subjects. The 49-page Making a Great Blog: A Guide For Creative People focuses on building a blog with strong content and explores building connections within the blogging community. It’s designed […]
The hardest thing to find for building this piano lid coffee table is the piano lid, but once you find one (check your parents’ and grandparents’ attics), this project comes together pretty easily!
Feast eyes on Takeuchi Taijin’s “A wolf loves pork” whimsical photo stop motion odyssey. Almost hard to believe these are all individual photos! [via The Pink Tentacle]
Rog8811’s managed to pack a green laser diode, mirrors, motor and battery into the slender form factor of a Zippo lighter – resulting in an extremely portable pattern projector. Very cool, and as you might imagine it involve a appropriately delicate construction – For a spirograph pattern to be produced a minimum of 2 rotating […]
Nick sent word of his digitally squarewave take on the legendary theremin instrument – hmmm, a Squaremin perhaps? This battery powered electronic musical instrument is a descendant of the theremin and can be played without contact from the musician. This small instrument contains two infared (IR) sensors, one controlling the note, with the other controlling […]
