Tomorrow marks the 3rd meeting of Make:PGH, Pittsburgh’s DIY group, and the presentations are going to be chock-full of crafts! First up is Susan Felix and her crochet amigurumi creatures: Susan Felix has an MS in Mechanical Engineering, but she doesn’t actually use it. She lives in Pittsburgh’s East End with her fiancé and she […]
Folks have been all abuzz over Betty White’s performance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend. If you missed the show, you can watch it online via the NBC web site. Abbey at Renegade Handmade even made a Betty White cake for the occasion. Pair it with the Ode to Betty White cards from Vickie […]
Having a hard time figuring out how to affix your GPS unit to a secure spot on your dash? Crappy suction cup mounts always falling off? Sandbag mounts sliding around all over the place? If you don’t mind sticking things in your HVAC vents, you might consider trying something similar to this custom ShapeLock GPS mount from Portuguese maker Rui Cabral.
Another creative device from Mr. Gijs Gieskes, this time converting MIDI note data to playback control of online video – An arduino usb hid keyboard emulator is used to convert midi note messages to keypresses. This can be useful to control online videos with midi, in combination with the youtube mixer (uses the youtube javascript […]
b r e e d… Breed is a computer program that uses artificial evolution to grow very detailed sculptures. The purpose of each growth is to generate by cell division from a single cell a detailed form that can be materialised. On the basis of selection and mutation a code is gradually developed that best […]
Built for a presentation on mobile development for MobileCampBrussels, the Phone Guitar is an amalgam of five smartphones, three mobile platforms, three programing languages, two third-party apps, a custom cross-platform sequencer app, a stick, some battery powered speakers, and plenty of duct tape.
The next step in making my autonomous Arduino Nerf sentry gun is to move the relay circuit from the temporary breadboard onto something more permanent.
