DIY Spring Bottles
Sjoejoe shows us how to add a little punch to a simple old bottle that would make a lovely spring vase. This is a great way to display the flowers you grew, made, or bought for mom this Mother’s Day in!
Month: May 2012
Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Up Shop (Again?)
Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Up Shop? For the second time since 1992, Heathkit Educational Services (HES) has shuttered its doors. Rumors of the legendary kit-building company’s demise wereposted on QRZ.com, with several readers bringing the news to the attention of the ARRL. In August 2011, Heathkit announced it was returning to the kit building business, […]
Recipe: Gluten-Free Orange Polenta Cake
My friend Beth posted about this fantastic gluten-free orange polenta cake and I finally got around to making it. It’s delicious! I changed a few things in the recipe to make it lower in sugar, and we gobbled it up. I particularly love the idea of infusing the finished cake with the orange syrup. Yum. […]
Matt’s Electromechanical Alpha Display
Cool student project from our own Matt Richardson, who built this single-character “combination lock” text display for Daniel Rozin’s Designing for Digital Fabrication class in the ITP program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Handmade Digital Saxophone
Brian Wang of Cornell’s ECE 476 class built this digital saxophone. The player blows into a cone that’s fitted with a microphone. The microphone is sent through an opamp and then a Atmel644 microcontroller. The user controls pitch with buttons mounted in the same arrangement as saxophone keys, outputting digital notes.
How-To: Pom-Pomless Earrings, a Project Excerpt From Chic on a Shoestring by Mary Jane Baxter
Crafters know, almost better than anyone, how one of the best ways to go green with projects is repurposing an existing object, garment or accessory. It’s not just economical, it’s environmentally friendly, and it’s no surprise that crafters excel at upcrafting. This week’s book excerpt is a great example of repurposing and refashioning to maximize […]
WiFi RC Car Has Camera and Force Feedback
From maker Blair Kelly: “Arduino Wifly Mini is a remotely operated vehicle that communicates over a WiFi network, can be controlled with an XBOX 360 or PS3 controller, or G27 steering wheel, or any other controller that can be manipulated with Processing’s ProControll library.”
