Year: 2011

Hanging Ornament Pattern Fabrics

If you’re planning on making handmade holiday presents, December is just around the corner! I love the hanging ornament pattern fabrics from the latest fabric design contest at Spoonflower right now. They have some other Christmas and end-of-year-themed contests coming up, like 2012 Tea Towel Calendars (November 8th) and Advent calendar fabric (November 15th).

Sound-Activated and Wearable Light Organ

Sound-Activated and Wearable Light Organ

About the size of two 9V batteries, and powered by only one, our latest Weekend Project, the Light Organ, is both portable and fun! The beating heart of this project is the LM324 Integrated Circuit (IC), the black chip in the middle of the board. This legendary IC actually has four operational amplifiers (or “op-amps”) embedded in it, although for the purpose of this project, we’re only using two.