We’re almost to the mid-point of our summer here, and we are already starting to run low on ideas for inexpensive, fun kid projects to try. I love this DIY harmonica from Maya*Made, and can’t wait to try it with my kiddos. With a little blowing, they make a satisfying sound that can change pitch […]
Jared Bouck is the driving force behind Sprout Board, an Arduino breakout board that lets you plug in a Duemilanove and a shield and provides a panel-mount set of screw terminals, all in a rack-mountable form factor. The prototype application for the SproutBoard is a DIY server room monitor that can be configured to provide remote temperature and humidity, motion, liquid water, smoke, room entry, and mains power monitoring. Local monitoring options include an LCD display and an audio alarm module. They’ll sell you the Sprout Board itself, in kit form, for $50, or a complete bare-bones server monitor with a fully assembled and tested Spout Board, an Arduino, an Ethernet Shield, a serial LCD display, a wall mount chassis, and a temperature/humidity sensor board for $250, which is about 1/5th the price of a comparable commercial system.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Peter Cocteau turned the brain of the Lego Mindstorms platform into very cool little drum machine – the NXT-606, featuring – -Monophonic sample based drum machine -24 percussion and Fx sounds -Sampling rate: 8Khz -memory: 96 measures -control: 2 rotation sensor +NXT buttons -hacked loud speaker to mono output: jack 6,35mm -Editor: NXT-G -Real time […]
The New Domestic shows you how you can easily create your own modern large scale painting for non-artists. With some painter’s tape and acrylic paint, you can easy make a colorful and bold piece of art for your home. [via How About Orange]
On July 10th, we’re organizing a Mini Maker Faire in Aspen Colorado, in association with the Aspen Big Ideas Festival. We’ll have some folks from SparkFun, SF’s Exploratorium, the Denver Mad Scientists Club, Lynne Bruning’s wearable technology, the Cellbots project, MAKE writer John Maushammer, and a lot more. We’ll be at Gondola Plaza from 10am […]
Heidi Adnum gives some fantastic photography pointers in her two part series on Etsy. Learn to use backgrounds, props, and scale in part 2, and color, light, and reflection in part 1.
