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Enough Already: Silencing Celebs with Arduino

Enough Already: Silencing Celebs with Arduino

Matt demonstrates how he uses an Arduino to make a celebrity-silencing remote control for your TV. By decoding the closed captioning track in the video signal, the Arduino is able to look for keywords such as “PALIN” or “KARDASHIAN” and mute your TV, protecting your poor ears from having to hear about them ever again.

For more information, including the code, check out: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/enough-already-the-arduino-solution-to-overexposed-celebs.html

Handmade Inspiration Journals

TheDelicateUtility knows the importance of having a place for all those great ideas swimming around in your head. Put them to use in these handmade journals made from reclaimed leather, folders and paper. The pages are blank, and best of all, most of the journals are small enough to fit in your back pocket if […]

Canning Plum Jam

Michelle from Muffin Tin Mom has a post on her first canning experience recently (the fruits of their labor are pictured above – get it?!). She offers up some tasty ideas for plum jam, her thoughts on canning, and even some cute gift tags for finished jars. For the veteran canners out there, do we […]