Richard Kline wrote in with his detailed and well-written tutorial on how to create your own ginormous 5×7 display. I built this large display, which is designed to mimic a common 5×7 LED readout, out of pink foam insulation and sundry other bits from Home Depot. The LED’s are diffused 5mm RGB’s wired together with […]
After a trip to Copenhagen, Instructable user carkat saw that a lot of people used cargo bikes (with a cargo area in the front) to transport their kids around. He couldn’t afford to buy such a bike, so he cannibalized a couple of junkers, some square steel tubing, and some some sort of what looks […]
Growing up in Chicago, I remember the first time I heard the sound of cicadas, a loud, unmatched symphony. Despite the fact that cicadas are pretty large insects and can be kinda scary as they fly around, they have an undeniable beauty, especially in their delicate wings. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, Sudlow Jewelry has a […]
Iain made this awesome Guitar Tuner for a Blind User, by adding audio feedback to a tuner designed for sighed people.
Itching to do some homegrown neurophysiology, but don’t have access to the expensive equipment required to perform your experiments?
When was the last time you saw folks on unicycles battling each other in a game of dart guns? For me, it was last week when I was able to attend a Henry Ford community celebration for Maker Faire Detroit. It seems like everyday more and more people are on board to make the Detroit […]
One of our readers, Milton Ammel, sent us images of this clever little hack he did to his mother’s “grabber tool” so that it could both trigger the latch on the door and grab the handle. So simple. Funky, but effective. Milton writes: This is a door opening device I made for my handicapped mom. […]
