Month: May 2011

How-To: Sew a Feather Mowhawk

Matt Borgatti writes: Do you need to achieve maximum stopping power at a party? Perhaps something striking for the burn? Or possibly it’s just a few extra inches of height? Regardless, a feather mohawk is a powerful statement of your inner awesomeness manifested on your head for all to see. They’re pretty easy to make […]

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Tool Review:  Fluke 2AC VoltAlert Non-contact Voltage Tester

Tool Review: Fluke 2AC VoltAlert Non-contact Voltage Tester

This tool has been extremely helpful in mapping the wiring in my new home. It is the size and shape of a pen, and could not be simpler to use: Touch the plastic tip to a cable, switch, receptacle, or fixture where an AC potential in the range of 90 to 1000 volts is present, and the LED lights up.

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New in the Maker Shed: Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets

New in the Maker Shed: Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets

Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, or make your own cell phone applications? It’s a snap with the book Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform.

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Conway’s Game of Life Watch

Trammell Hudson of NYC Resistor designed an interface a day for his hackable inPulse watch. He has a lot of great ones but I really like his Conway’s Game of Life interface from Day 24. Today I had to work late, so the watch is not really finished. It borrows the game of life code […]

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How-To: Chocolate iPad 2

Learn to create your own gadgets from chocolate with stevequag’s guide for making a chocolate iPad 2!

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