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Thanks to everyone who braved the rare 90 degree heat and came out Saturday afternoon to Stitch Lounge for our CRAFT: 07 release party in San Francisco. We had so much fun hanging out to make these cute shoe clips while chatting and drinking strawberry lemonade or snacking on delicious cookies. We loved seeing everyone’s […]
On Johnny Lee’s website, he discusses (and shows video off) his latest computer-human interaction research at Carnegie-Mellon using the Wiimote. In the above video, he gives a presentation on different types of flexible, foldable displays using the motion tracking of the Wiimote and IR LEDs (and projection) to simulate the displays. On his page is […]
Here’s a how-to on building a lugsail land surfer that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with steampunk. Steampunk Lugsail Land Windsurfer
Remember this LED turn signal bike jacket we posted a while back? Well Leah Buechley made a tutorial for making your own. It has a button on each sleeve for activating the turn signals. The instructable includes a handy sewing/wiring diagram and lots of key insights into sewing a circuit for an LED turn signal […]
Here’s a nice tutorial on doing some logic analysis of a PS2 console controller using a Lantronix LogicPort: 34 channel logic analyzer. This way you can find out exactly how much wizardry and engineering goes into making some of the most popular console controllers of all time. And perhaps after you’re done, you can build […]
Arounna Khounnoraj has instructions for this clever motorized drawing bug at Bloesemkids.
Make:NYC Meeting 7 – Monday, June 30th, 6:30PM It’s been a while, but we got our stuff together and we’re ready to come back strong! This Make:NYC Meeting includes: Labinar: Custom PCB Making – Design and Creation Snap up a background on creating your own PCBs for electronic projects! See demonstrations of different PCB making […]
