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Nikolaus Gradwohl wrote in to share his little pictureframe project, which turns an old LCD picture frame into a fun animation piece: I found a cheap digital picture frame at a local electronics store a while ago and searched a project for it. So i installed 60 jpegs with eyes looking in different directions on […]
Dutch maker Ivo Beckers (shapedad) created this capacitive stylus for folks with limited mobility and is based on customer feedback. Capacitive touch devices like the iPad are useful tools for Assistive and Augmentative Communication (AAC) and Speech and Language Therapy (SLT). Check out Ivo’s wears here.
This Instructable from Jared Foster doesn’t just show you how to make his cool persistence-of-vision business card. It takes you through the construction of a circulating etch tank, the modification of a laminating machine to make a stencil applicator, the assembly of a controller to turn a toaster into a reflow oven, and the cobbling-together of a vacuum pickup tool for SMT components. And then you get some practice using all that cool stuff making a POV business card. It even comes with obligatory American Psycho allusions.
Dan Provost over at Studio Neat managed to brute force one of those fancy new Smart Covers onto his first generation iPad by gluing four rare earth magnets to the spine of the iPad. It doesn’t turn the iPad screen on or off and you’ll have four magnets glued to your iPad when you’re not using it, but it does perform as a cover and stand.
In the wake of the Japanese disaster trifecta, I contacted our pal Francesco Fondi, of Wired Italy’s Otaku News and Hobby Media, to make sure he was OK (in Tokyo). He’s fine. He also sent us a link to a piece he’d done on Wired.it about DIY Geiger counters. It looked interesting, so I asked […]
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If you’re a maker that likes to let your inner Michael Bublé or Beyoncé out, How-To Geek has a step-by-step guide to using Audacity to remove the vocal tracks from your favorite song. Here’s how it works: Vocals are normally placed in the “center channel.” Stereo tracks have two channels, but not all of the […]
