Atari console lamp
Check out this zany lamp from instructables.com user Seamster. It’s made from an old Atari console and a few spent cartridges.
Year: 2010
John Park in the Maker Shed: Ultrasonic distance sensor
This video shows how I built an ultrasonic tape measure using an Arduino Duemilanove, a PING))) sensor, and a 7-Segment Shield.
Automatic coop door opener
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 22, contains an automated chicken coop door opener project, by Alan Graham (Portland, OR). My geek BFF, Jeri Ellsworth, sent me a link to another, clever remote-controlled coop opener, put together by her friend “Slinky.” It uses a $5 power drill as the door winch and a Seeduino as […]
ITP spring show at NYU
Don’t miss NYU’s ITP spring show 2010: ITP’s graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars. ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative […]
Maple seed-inspired flying vehicle
When we did our Alex Rider contest, one of the kids proposed a tiny spy cam built into a faux maple leaf one could launch with a slingshot. We thought it was a clever idea. Some researchers at the University of Maryland’s Dept. of Aerospace Engineering were similarly inspired by samara seed pods and created […]
Flashback: Hand-Sewn Free-Range Monsters
For the month of May, our theme on CRAFT is Sewing and I’m reminded of one of my favorite sewing-related sentences from the pages of CRAFT magazine. In CRAFT Volume 06, the endlessly talented Moxie offered us a how-to for “Hand-Sewn Free-Range Monsters” and the entire intent of the project is creative play. When it […]
How-To: Hardware Store Jewelry
In this episode of Threadbanger, Abigail shows us how use hardware store finds to make your own city-inspired jewelry, and Corrine rounds up a bunch of prom-friendly accessory ideas.