Looking to build the smallest, most handy, bread-board friendly Arduino-compatible microcontroller? The Ardweeny from the Maker Shed fits on the back of the included ATmega328, taking up no more valuable breadboard space than the microcontroller itself!
Back in January, I posted about Sonya Phillips’ “Ordinary Objects,” the everyday objects she transforms by knitting into them. When Sonya tweeted that she would be at Bay Area Maker Faire, I immediately thought how fun it would be to have her knit into one of our iconic Maker Faire badges. I was thrilled to […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals is a suborbital space endeavor, based entirely on private donors, sponsors and part time specialists. Our mission is to launch human beings into space on privately built rockets and spacecrafts. The project is both open source and non-profit in order to inspire as many people as possible, and to involve relevant partners and […]
Syuzi @ Fashioning Technology writes: E-textiles are a phenomenal medium to explore novel musical interfaces. From the commercially available Air Guitar T to a pair of DIY drum kit jeans, to date there are numerous examples of creative instruments that explore unorthodox interfaces. What sets the Midi Hat apart from the rest (other than the […]
Orion Fredericks made an amazing kinetic sculpture out of steel, glass, a 1,000-watt full-spectrum light bulb, and a 24-volt wheelchair motor, called Fata Morgana. You can read more about it in the latest issue of MAKE – Volume 26! This slideshow includes photos of Fata Morgana and Fredericks’ other sculptures, Springwater and the male and […]
This rainbow balloon banner from Gabrielle at Design Mom is so cool and fun. She shares the how-to, which is simple but will require quite a bit of balloon wrangling (but no helium!). The effect is really worth it, though, don’t you think? [via @HelloLuckyCards]
If you’re into robots and cell phones, you’ll dig Darrell Taylor’s Super Simple Audio Cellbot build over in Make: Projects. Super Simple Audio Cellbot
