It’s no secret that we love Gakken kits here at MAKE, and the Mini Guitar kit is no exception. It has a built in amp, speaker, and line out so it’s a lot of fun, even if you don’t own an amp. After building the kit, just pop in some AA batteries and you are ready to rock.
Haeyoung Kim, aka Bubblyfish, wanted to make an animating LED display controlled by her chiptune rock-out move, the fist pump. Her and some classmates put together this little space invader LED dude who animates when the wrist-mounted accelerometer is moved in one of a few recognized motions. They also made an instructable documenting the procedure […]
I love the look of delicate scalloped crochet edging on a project, so this tutorial from Cassie of You Go Girl is really inviting. [via Stop Staring and Start Sewing]
This itty-bitty Lego chess set by Flickr user akunthita is only 12 x 12 studs, which makes it slightly less than 10 cm square. It even has little drawers to hold the pieces. [via The Brothers Brick]
Mobile music software developer Olivier Gillet recently turned his focus to hardware, founding the new Mutable Instruments brand. Mutable’s first device, the Shruti-1 uses an ATMega328p (of Arduino fame) and implements a number of features found in pro-level synths, including – arpeggiator, patch memory, assignable modulation, a step sequencer, & MIDI in/out. This all results […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is at it again! The time they’ve made extrusion (spritz) plates for cookies that mimic electron probability clouds. These atomic cookies are sure to be a big hit at your next quantum mechanics-themed party!
Eric Hart added a pic of these homemade prop fries to the MAKE Flickr pool. Natalie Taylor Hart took on this project. She began with an old scrap piece of upholstery foam. She set the fence on the bandsaw and cut thin strips out of the foam. She then ran these strips through the bandsaw […]
