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Death Star Cookie

Sean @ Make: Online writes: I made one of these Death Star cookies when I was five… and had forgotten about it until I saw this post from Mayor Todd Franklin. Well, OK, “I” made it in the sense that I watched my mother make it and (I think) she let me poke some of […]

Plush Hobbes

FurGots on Craftster made a plush Hobbes, from the comic Calvin & Hobbes. In only 3 hours! I like his serious face. She says: After a conversation with my friend, who dressed up as “Calvin” for Halloween, I got around to thinking…. it would be awfully neat to make a Hobbes stuffed animal. With all […]

How-To:  Retrofit a Magic 8-Ball with an OLED display

How-To: Retrofit a Magic 8-Ball with an OLED display

>The steps outlined here will show you how to modify a standard Magic 8 Ball to replace the normal message icosahedron with a OLED screen, and how to add wireless microcontroller, and accelerometer. The screen is submersed in the normal Magic 8 Ball goo so that all the original aesthetics are preserved. The messages can be reprogrammed wirelessly without having to open the 8 Ball. The accelerometer detects when the 8 Ball is in use (e.g. tipped from resting to looking through the Magic Hole) and signals the microcontroller to turn on screen and fade in the messages.