How-To: Sled from wooden pallet
Wooden pallets are easy to come by and can be made into a neat sled (or sledge) using Stiffey’s Instructable.
Year: 2010
How-To: Move Pages in a Wire-O Notebook
A notebook can be a crafter’s best friend. It’s a place to record project ideas, sketches and resources. Alice of Futuregirl came up with a brilliant way to work around the limitations of spiral-bound paper in wire-o notebooks to allow for the fluctuation in note taking and project progress and to allow her to create […]
Secret handshake of the future
While at the MIT Media Lab earlier this week, I met David Cranor, a student in the Object-Based Media group, who showed me his LilyPad Arduino secret handshake project he made with Amanda Peyton, Arlene Persaud, Rajiv Bhatia, and Sinbae Kim for their Tangible Interfaces class last semester. He writes: We ironed on conductive fabric […]
Alt.CES: Nexus One teardown
I love how our pals over at iFixit are always the first in line to buy new gadgets as they come to market, so they can race them back to the shop to take them apart and find out what makes them tick. Their excitement and curiosity is almost palpable, and of course, we all […]
Make: Electronics toolkit
We have the Make: Electronics toolkit back in stock! Do you want to learn to solder? Not sure what tools you need? We took the trouble out of searching for all the right tools for the job. This kit includes everything you need to get started in the wonderful world of kit making!
Reminder: SparkFun’s free day, tomorrow!
Don’t forget: Tomorrow is SparkFun’s day of free merch (from 9am – 11pm MST). Here’s Becky’s original post from November: Sparkfun is giving away things for free on January 7! You can blame it on Chris Anderson’s book Free. After reading his book, I started kicking around the idea of what we can do that’s […]
Gameboy as robot remote control
Today I checked in with Make: Labs to see what our faithful interns are working on, and Kris Magri showed me the setup pictured above. A while back she was given a Tomy i-Sobot and tasked with hacking it. The thing she liked least about the i-Sobot is how complicated and clunky the remote control […]
