Flora has Arrived in the Maker Shed!
The long awaited Adafruit Flora has arrived in the Maker Shed! This versatile e-textiles platforms make “smart” clothing other stitch-able projects that can interact with their environment.
Year: 2012
Let’s Rock! with Weekend Projects and the MonoBox Powered Speaker
Build a small powered speaker to amplify your portable music player, and install everything inside a cigar box or an enclosure of your own design.
How-To: Easy Chocolate Peppermint Cake
The peppermint and chocolate combination is definitely a staple in my holiday kitchen, and this easy chocolate peppermint cake recipe from Shannon at Madigan Made looks absolutely delicious!
Open-Source Wearable PIC Board
SquareWare by Ray’s Hobby offers the same general format as a Lilypad or Flora but uses a PIC microcontroller: An open-source microcontroller board designed specially for wearable electronics projects. It’s small (1.6″x1.6″) and square! Has 8 general i/o pins and 4 power sink pins suitable for driving high-current load. Comes with built-in USB connector and […]
Knitted Jewelry
Amy Lawrence creates impressive pieces of jewelry with her Italian industrial knitting machine.
Toolsday: Dream Tools
Today’s Toolsday topic is Dream Tools-If money was no object, what tool(s) would you buy?
Host: Eric Weinhoffer
Guest: Michael Castor
Food Makers: Aquaponics
17-year-old aquaponics innovator Pierre Beauchamp has been building systems since he was 13. In this episode of Food Makers he explains his interest in aquaponics and the system he designed for Del Oro High School in Auburn Calif.
