How-To: Hardware Chocolates
Make molds from nuts and cast your own mechanical chocolates!
Year: 2011
Lego Minifig Volt and Ohm Meter
This Lego meter uses a microcontroller inside the case to check resistors and batteries. A PC running a .NET application displays the value and uses text to speech to say the number aloud. [Via Dangerous Prototypes]
Craftovision Videos From Corinne Leigh
Corrine Leigh, founder of Threadbanger, is back with crafty videos on her new blog, Craftovision. Went back to my roots of making videos…I cannot help it, I love to have a variety of different segments thus creating more work for myself. A wise man once told me that I make things too difficult. That is […]
Stephen Colbert Portrait With Subliminal IR Message Marquee
Fortunately, Austrian filmmaker Benjamin Hable has discovered that you can use your cell phone, digital camera, or other CCD-equipped gadget (rather like the special sunglasses discovered by “Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s character in John Carpenter’s 1988 conspiranoia flick They Live) to see the fnords. Benjamin made Augmented Paranoia for a January 17 exhibition called bits and ohm, and used the public-domain portrait of Stephen Colbert released for the Colbert Nation Portrait Challenge. Reminds me of a project I did a few years back ( (also inspired by They Live) involving deliberately burning subliminal messages into the phosphors of analog TV tubes. [Thanks, Benjamin!]
The Cyclotrope: Amazing Bike Wheel Animation
Who would have ever thought that there were so many ways to combine cycling and persistence of vision? Here’s another cool one to add to the list: much like a zoetrope, Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope is a bike wheel that gives the illusion of animation when it’s being spun on camera. [via Neatorama] More: Embroidered Animation […]
Maker Faire Town Hall Saturates TechShop SF
We had a massive turnout for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area’s Town Hall meeting in San Francisco Tuesday evening. The folks at TechShop SF were kind enough to lend us their space for the meeting and to give walking tours of the facility. Makers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad were able to meet with the Maker Faire Crew in-person, establish new connections, and kick the season off with a bang. Also on hand to satiate the frenzied crowd of risk-takers, doers, and makers of things were the folks from The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in South Park with monster gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and cups of smoky tomato soup. Yum!
Jim Kelly’s Hands-On Arduino Blog
Our friend Jim Kelly, who did such a bang-up job of documenting his way through all of the experiments in our Make: Electronics book is now doing the same thing with Michael McRoberts’ Beginning Arduino. Having somebody doing the exercises in books like these, documenting their successes and failures, allowing others to comment and share […]