Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure – an amazing sort of bidirectional converter for mechanical and electrical energies. Perhaps even more amazing is the fact that you can easily ‘grow’ your own piezoelectric crystals overnight using just a couple of common ingredients – awesome.
If you have a little time and a lot of nostalgia for crackling candy, learn to make your own Pop Rocks with this Instructable from chickflix. Most of the ingredients are easy to find, and you’ll need a blunt object such as a hammer to break them up into pebbles. Enjoy your freshly-made candy while […]
This spring garland from Camilla at Family Chic is a simple and brilliant project. We always end up with far more of these plastic eggs than we ever know what to do with. I think we’ve got our solution now.
Pete Mills, from Ann Arbor, MI, wrote in with his Cigar Box Laser Light Show. It was spring break last week so I had some spare time to kill. I wanted to do a project that would be done fairly quickly and still have some time to study for classes resuming. I do have several […]
To celebrate the launch of her new novel, Miss Scarlet’s School of Patternless Sewing, Crafty Chica has a fabulous book launch sweepstakes happening now. It’s easy to enter and there are tons of great prizes. The grand prize is your chance to win a Singer sewing machine and Gidget sewing table! The deadline to enter […]
Members of the Manchester, UK hakcerspace HAC:Manchester used a projector, an Arduino, and some rotary encoders to build this giant project-a-sketch. Here’s a video of it in use by Maria of littlestar.tv: [via Hackerspaces Soup] More: Sketch3D, the 3D Etch A Sketch Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears Mouse-A-Sketch Toys for Bots – Arduino controlled […]
Hello Makers, We’ll be doing another bit of maintenance over the weekend (WordPress’ development cycle is off the chain!), so we’ll be down for about 15 minutes (knock on wood) starting at 11pm PST on Saturday, March 12th. Hopefully that won’t interrupt your feverish sawing and hammering!
