CMU Spring Carnival 2010
Carnegie Mellon University’s 2010 Spring Carnival is this weekend, if you are in or near Pittsburgh, PA, I highly suggest you check it out!
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How-To: Vintage Book Covered Planner
Cathe of Just Something I Made shows how she gussied up a boring day planner with an awesome vintage book cover. Brilliant!
Album of electronic components
And you thought stamp collecting was geeky! I love this idea. These are cheap coin-collecting albums. What a fabulous teaching aid and way of organizing components so that students of electronics can see the parts families, different varieties of components, different package types, etc. The background labels are even color-coded so that component types are […]
Weekend Project: Stealth Mic
Make a set of sneaky earbuds that record what you hear. They create a binaural effect
when played back wearing headphones.
The Perfection of Ferns
Ferns are one of the most structurally interesting plants on earth. Some are tiny with a a delicate, etherial frond. Others are enormous and leathery with a prehistoric look. I have always loved them, so much in fact, that when I made my bridal bouquet I used only ferns and not a single flower. Here […]
Weekend Project: Evasive Beeping Thing
Annoy your friends or co-workers with this high-tech practical joke. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/weekend_project_evasive_beeping_thi_1.html. More great projects at http://www.makezine.com
Weekend Project: Personal Portable Heater
Keep warm this winter with an easy to make portable heater you can stick in your pocket, under your hat or anywhere for some extra heat. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/weekend_project_personal_portable_h.html