Big Blowhards
Who will be the first to make a machine that propels a pumpkin more than a mile?
Year: 2012
Hands On — Router Aesthetics
Now that “digital carpentry” has come to exist, how do you make it authentic?
Made On Earth — The Old-Fashioned Future
If you love the look of movies such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and The City of Lost Children, there’s a sculptor out there after your own heart.
Pianocade Arcade-style Chiptunes Synthesizer
The form perfectly follows the super retro function of this arcade-tastic chiptunes syntesizer from Portmanteau Devices, the Pianocade. A monophonic square-wave synth deserves to be played with arcade buttons! The Pianocade’s built-in synthesizer is based on the sound hardware of the Nintendo NES and Game Boy (specifically, one of the square wave channels: it’s a […]
555 Timer Contest Highlights
To mark the recent passing of Hans Camenzind, we are running a 555 mini-retrospective this week. Last year Jeri Ellsworth held a 555 timer contest in the categories of Artistic, Complex, Minimalist, and Utility. Here are some photos and schematics of the first place winners from that contest.
Epic Pokemon Cross-Stitch
Pokémon enthusiast eponases stoically spent 8 months creating this epic cross-stitched piece, which includes all 151 original Pokémon. [via neatorama] More: Cross-Stitched Final Fantasy III Monopoly Board @Craftzine.com blog Internet Cross Stitch Sampler @Craftzine.com blog Adafruit Ohm Sweet Ohm Cross-Stitch Kit @Craftzine.com blog
PCB Business Card
Brian Carrigan’s clever circuit board business card has Brian’s contact info printed on the PCB and his resume and the project’s source code on the flash chip. A business card should represent a person’s expertise. My expertise is in creating unique circuit boards, so to celebrate this I wanted to create a USB thumb drive […]