Artist Thorsten Streichardt modded a paper shredder to slow it down to about the speed of grass growing – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make a hand cranked document shredder – Link. DIY Xerox Printer Shredder – Link. Hamster shredder – Link. Art @ MAKE – Link.
Shana writes: Craftacular is a wiki (like Wikipedia) for craft information. It has patterns, tutorials, and information about different crafts. Every page is editable by anyone, so eventually, it will become a central source of crafty knowledge. Pictured above is the crochet apples pattern and the Tetris quilt. Visit Craftacular to check out the rest […]
Come check out two amazing electric cars that will be at Maker Faire!, speeding in to the future! Here’s a snippet from the project description by Rich Hilleman and Ian Wright: Electric cars do not have to be heavy, ugly, and slow. The Wrightspeed X1 weighs only 1536 lbs, and has beaten some of the […]
Splurch pointed us to Karina of Virginia who used 196 ramen packets to make this dress for her “Wearable Art” project. She also used chopsticks to make a bracelet and to embellish her hat. Link.
Kevin Kelly has a great round up of crystal radio builds, free plans and kits (some I haven’t seen either) – Link. Inspired related round up: HOW TO – Building a crystal radio out of household items – Link. Refugee Radio – An energy-independent AM-receiver radio… – Link. Building a radio in 10 minutes – […]
fpga4fun.com shows how to make a single channel 100MHz/100MSPS (100 mega-samples-per-second) RS-232 based (and USB) digital oscilloscope (an oscilloscope allows you to view signal voltages) – Link. Related: Oscilloscope art – Link. Oscilloscope clock – Link. PIC Based Oscilloscope with LCD – Link. ScopeOnPC – Turn your PC into a an oscilloscope – Link. Using […]
Here’s a really cool AVR based MINI recorder that uses SD, and LCD and IR (remote) – [via] Link.
