HOW TO – LED throwies with on/off tabs
MAKE pal Everythingdigital.org writes “Here’s a step-by-step guide on making your own magnetic LED throwies that can be tossed and stick to anything magnetic. Based on an Instructables tutorial.” Link.
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MAKE: Movies – The MAKE film festival at the Maker Faire!
We are pleased to announce the first film festival that celebrates makers and the DIY mindset – Grab those hacked CVS video cameras and $14 steadycams. It’s time for MAKE: Movies! MAKE: is hosting the first festival for makers to show off their DIY short video clips. Don’t think of it as a contest, because […]
Apollo videos on Google video…
I know how I will be spending Friday night now – Google added 103 historic films, here’s the Apollo 11 mission, perhaps the one of the most important achievements of humankind – “This film tells the story of the historic first landing of men on the Moon in July, 1969. It depicts the principal highlight […]
$10 Integrated headphone ski cap…
DIY happy has a fun how-to on making a ski cap with headphones in it. Sam writes “Burton sells a really cool cap with integrated headphones for listening to music while participating in winter sports. These hats are well made, but they cost around $40. That’s why Digital Cameron and I set out to make […]
Low-Cost sensing and communication using bidirectional LEDs
Now _this_ is a really cool project – using a LED display bidirectionally to optically detect finger touches! [via] Link & extremely cool video here. Related – LEDs as sensors blog.
HOW TO – Build a PVC instrument
Nathan has a really cool Blue Man group-like PVC instrument you can play with your hands or a mallet [via] Link & build photos. Check out more PVC projects here.
Enzyme computer could live inside you
An enzyme based computer could live inside you and release drugs based on conditions going on – “The enzyme computer was used to perform two fundamental logic computations known as AND (where A and B must both equal one) and XOR (where A and B must have different values). The addition of two further enzymes […]