Month: September 2010

How-To: LED Hula Hoop

How-To: LED Hula Hoop

In honor of Geek Crafts month on CRAFT, we put up Brookelynn Morris’ LED Hula Hoop tutorial on Make: Projects. LED hula hoops are so beautiful to watch, and creating a custom hoop is a satisfying challenge. Twenty-one LEDs are used in this hoop; 6 are flashing LEDs that cycle through the colors of the […]

Industrial Agriculture Plush

Plush toy maven and CRAFT friend Lauren Venell writes: I recently made this “Cash Cow” plush for the Plush You LA show at Munky King. It’s divided into the hidden costs of factory farming that we all pay, such as pollution clean-up, treating food-borne illness, and direct government subsidies to livestock companies.    Lauren also […]

Beagleboard Ebook reader

Beagleboard Ebook reader

Justin Huynh over at Liquidware has pieced together another Beagleboard gadget. This time around he’s focused on building a DIY Beagleboard Ebook reader out of snap-on components and the open source FBReader software. It won’t fit in your pocket, but it more than makes up for it in hackability.