I love how Kelly of Ever Kelly took some simple and inexpensive craft store supplies and turned them in to customized cute cuckoo clocks. Now, to be honest, as much as I love cuckoo clocks, the tick-tock sound is very distracting for me. (Not to mention an hourly chime!) These are quiet, display-only birds. [via […]
Screenshots of the DIYgenomics iPhone app You may already know 23andMe, the company that trades your spit (and a few Benjamins) for copious amounts of your raw genetic information. But what can you actually do with this data? Citizen scientist Raymond McCauley did quite a lot, after learning about his genetic predispositions (such as a […]
Dan Wagoner is playing around with connecting an Arduino to his Asterisk system. I’ve been able to get Asterisk grab info about sensors connected to an ethernet-enabled Arduino, but how about the other way around? What if you could allow your Arduino to make outbound calls through your Asterisk system to make a make-shift alarm […]
Make a scannable carpet like this QR code rug by Nikolaus Gradwohl. [Thanks, Madelin!] More: CRAFT Video: Machine-Knitted QR Code Scarf
MIT Media Labber David Cranor writes: For the FAB6 conference this year, Max Lobovsky and I made a microcontroller-based thin client which uses a NTSC TV as its output device. It does the NTSC video generation totally in hardware, has a full 480×240 framebuffer, and the code is written all in in c. Additionally, the […]
Catie of Do Ah Diddy shares her tutorial for creating a softie flip book doll over on Prudent Baby. I remember loving these kinds of dolls as a kid, and I think it could be fun to customize it to your favorite story or nursery rhyme, or even make one that coordinates with your family […]
If you’ve got an extra WiFi access point laying around and would like to stream audio to your stereo from sites like Pandora, last.fm, and Slacker Radio, then you’ll appreciate this informative how-to video from Tinkernut. Based on work available at MightOhm, this segment will get you up to speed with installing firmware, adding USB audio, and general configuration.
