From the MAKE Flickr photo pool For InterAccess’ “555 Timer Night” at Open Studio, they made this 555 IC cake, inspired by EMS Labs’ circuitry snacks. Nice to have the data sheet handy so you know what you’re eating. Those 23 transistors, 2 diodes, and 16 resistors may look hidden inside that tiny DIP, but […]
I got sucked into reading one of those 15 amazing things you never knew about aluminum foil articles. One of the claims was that you could sharpen a pair of scissors by cutting aluminum. It sounded about as plausible as mending a broken leg by driving it over with a station wagon, but I’ll be […]
Sabine Seymour’s book, Fashionable Technology, is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations serve as clarification. Over 50 well-known designers, research institutes, companies and artists, among them Philips, Burton, MIT […]
Mark Your Calendars! Next Meeting: Tuesday 27 May 2008 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: St. Stephen’s Church’s auditorium hosted by HacDC 1525 Newton St NW (near 16th and Newton NW) Washington, DC 20010 NOTE: This meeting will take place at St. Stephen’s Church (thank you HacDC!), and will include an exclusive […]
Sound candy is a simple sampler device with playback triggered by an accelerometer – this can lead to many-a-funtime, as demonstrated thoroughly above. Oh I do say this would be fun to remake, perhps I’ll give it a go myself – Sound Candy on Califaudio
Paleo electronics by Chris Murphy – amazing, incredible works, love them all– Here’s the artist’s statement… Paleo electronics. While working in the electrical field I spent quite a bit of time with all sorts of antiquated equipment, usually trying to coax a bit more life out of it, or removing it in order to update […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Feurig designed an Arduino USB programmer around the At90USB162 chip – There were a few lessons that I learned at the Arduino Cult induction workshop that I put together this month. One of which was that I needed to simplify my programmer design on the cable end and not […]
