Indie Art, Craft, and Market Posters
Becky Johnson of The Sweetie Pie Press has started a new Tumblr, Indie Art, Craft, and Market Posters, to collect and show craft fair posters. If you’ve got one to share from a show you’re a part of, submit it!
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Coil Driver
If you like high-voltage sparks arcing through the air (and who doesnโt?), check out the Coil Driver, which drives an automotive ignition coil at audio frequencies. Like other musical kits, the Coil Driver makes a great group build because you can all make cool sounds together when youโre done. However, while itโs an easy solder, […]
Digital Dominos
These Digital Dominos work just like regular dominosย knocking each other down, only virtually. Each domino-sized PCB has a button that triggers an LED to blink (which corresponds to the domino โfallingโ). An IR sensor onย one end and an IR LED on the other allow each dominoย to trigger any adjacent domino to blink, and so on. […]
Graceful Kelly Bag Pattern From U*Handbag
I love this sweet bag from Lisa of U*Handbag, for which she’s provided a detailed downloadable pattern over on her blog. So, this bag is totally inspired by the purse frame itself. As soon as I saw the frame I was thinking of film starlets, Grace Kelly, Doris Day, and the lovely women of Mad […]
No more Flash for mobile devices…
Google and OEMs like RIM & HTC will likely need to drop support in the next versions of their OSes. For me personally, I can finally say the book I co-authored 9 years ago now officially outdated and not supported (I still get emails).
Nebulophone
Another small synth from Bleep Labs, the Nebulophone is more robust than the Pico Paso. It packs three potentiometer knobs, two buttons, an LED/light sensor combo that serves as an analog low-pass filter, and a unique piano-like series of pads on the PCB that you can control with an alligator clip. It has a programmable […]
Pico Paso
This tiny, handheld synth features two light sensors, two pots, and two buttons. Itโs an easy build, even for newbies, soldering together very quickly with no difficult steps. I love how snug the little guy is, but this compactness comes at a price: no enclosure and no speaker. To hear the Pico Paso, youโll need […]
