This is a solder-together kit for studying the electrical impulses of cockroach neurons. The online instructions are excellent, with videos and plenty of clear photos of the assembly process. My 8-year-old daughter identified and inserted all the electrical components into the clearly marked printed circuit board through-holes, and I did the soldering. She asked me […]
Continue ReadingThere are a bunch of great projects in our Halloween contest on Make: Projects, but yours is still missing! Enter your Halloween projects today by 11:59pm PT to enter to win these great prizes: Grand Prize in Tech Dremel 3000 rotary tool Cool Neon Arduino shield with 5x5ft presoldered sections of 5mm highbright long-life EL […]
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There are a bunch of great projects in our Halloween contest on Make: Projects, but yours is still missing! Enter your Halloween projects today by 11:59pm PT to enter to win great prizes.
Continue ReadingAs soon as I saw this picture over on Pinterest, I immediately recognized the pattern as one of Carina’s. Instead of floss stitches on fabric, though, this design was executed using sprinkles on the frosting of a cake. Stephanie of Clockwork Lemon used one of Carina’s embroidery patterns as inspiration for the delicate placement of […]
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No power rings are involved, here, just boric acid, methanol, and a homemade spirit lamp. It’s all nicely explained by Instructables user The Green Gentleman.
Continue ReadingEvery once in a while, I see a craft that makes my inner 10-year-old squeal, “Ooh, that’s COOL!” and this reverse appliquéd zippered beaker pouch from Cation Designs is definitely speaking to my younger science geek self! My favorite part of the post: though the pouch isn’t really meant to hold actual beakers, she still […]
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This new camera, now available in the Maker Shed, can be a great addition to your project. It was designed to be used in security systems and does two main things – it outputs NTSC video and can take snapshots of that video and transmit them over the TTL serial link. You can snap pictures at 640×480, 320×240 or 160×120 and they are pre-compressed into JPEG images which makes them nice, small and easy to store on an SD card.
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