How To: Make Pysanky
Pysanky are beautiful and intricate Ukranian Easter eggs. I found a great tutorial on rejuquar.com for making your own that makes it look easy!
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DSi XL teardown
Our BFFs over at iFixIt went medieval on the just-released Nintendo DSi XL. They sort of looked at it as practice, keeping themselves in shape and head-sharp for this Saturday’s iPad release. You know they’ll be the first in line, screwdrivers and spudgers twitching in their hands. On the DSi XL teardown, Kyle writes: Nintendo […]
Concrete pong console
Dutch maker Guus Oosterbaan used a cheesy off-the-shelf pong console, gutted it, wrapped the guts in duct tape, and embedded it in a concrete block. He also made a radio embedded in cement.
In the Makers Market: Nintendo cartridge harmonicas
I first blogged about Brian H.’s classic NES “harmonicarts” two weeks ago. Since that time, I am pleased as punch to announce, Brian has opened a store selling them in our very own Makers Market. Right now he’s got Top Gun and WWF Wrestlemania versions available, both in the key of C major.
Ruffled Rose Pillow from a Bridesmaid Dress
Samantha at the SF Examiner has a great photo tutorial on how to refashion an old bridesmaid dress into a ruffled rose pillow.
Lunar landing simulator
Inspired by Atari’s 1979 Lunar Lander game, Iain Sharp created this excellent lunar landing simulator to honor the 40th anniversary of the landing. The electronics for Lunar Lander are based around ATMEL AVR microcontrollers. An Arduino board acts as a convenient USB to serial converter which makes the computer interface nice and easy. All the […]
Wooden lamp kit
From the MAKE Flickr pool: This cute assemble-yourself lamp is available in kit form from the Chinese website GeekCook.net (?) and costs 78 yuan. Mangled translation courtesy of Google: Impetuous anxiety in this vast land, and we afford to dream of a moment’s peace. In the night, lit one for himself only to his own […]