Via Hack N Mod comes this cool LED project: The Glowies use a small microcontroller, but they are really quite simple in both parts and function. The core of the unit is a silicon diode used as a temperature sensor (actually, two of them). These Glowies sense when temperature drops, and it turns blue. If […]
Ryan O’Hara writes in about BoxMaker, a postcardware app for making boxes. From the site: BoxMaker is a little Java application that can generate the outlines for a box to be out of some material with a cutting device (ideally using wood/acrylic on a lasercutter!). You tell it the dimensions of the box (width, height, […]
Nothing says “robot” like an android. So lets make one of our own! This course will take you through the steps of building your own android. You’ll leave with a working, foot tall programmable android! You can use it for kung-fu matches, dancing, stair-climbing or many other events. Only 20 slots available (one or two […]
This one could be great for bass players and other DI-ers A Preamp Cable is a phantom powered discrete FET (Field Effect Transistor) preamp built into the plug of a guitar cable. It provides almost all the advantages of an on-board preamp with none of the disadvantages. To the best of my knowledge I invented […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Like some sort of cyborg fruit-turned-electronic hedgehog – Flickr member s8’s 2-week old lemon-powered joule thief is showing its age. Hmm. I wonder if it smells as good as it looks. – middle-aged lemon Related: HOW TO – Tiny AVR Microcontroller powered by fruit Make a Joule Thief – […]
When a drive is mounted in Windows, it’s normally assigned the next available drive letter, and using the disk management tool, you can force a disk to use a specific drive letter. It turns out you can even take this one step further and map a drive to a directory/folder path on another disk. With […]
This is a pretty cool Arduino to WiiMote NunChuck hack from Jeremy Keith to control 3D visuals in Processing on an iMac. Simple but effective. Arduino WiiMote Hack
