Gorgeous electronic bagpipe! – Anders Fagerstrom, the brilliant Swedish musical electronics engineer, has outdone himself! Long famed for his outstanding electronic Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) practice chanter, the “Technochanter” (see detailed description here), his firm has just released a spectacular full-blown electronic bagpipe, the Technopipes, that emulates a Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe, a Scottish Smallpipe […]
Simple lock project (kit available too) – There are six (or more) push switches. To ‘unlock’ you must press all the correct ones at the same time, but not press any of the cancel switches. Pressing just one cancel switch will prevent the circuit unlocking. When the circuit unlocks it actually just turns on an […]
If you use Flickr (many of our maker do) you can now edit your photos right in the browser using their partner site Picnik. I played around, it works great! – Link.
Here’s a guide for creating a MIDI keyboard from a cheapo toy keyboard. This project details the steps to build your own Open Source (musical) keyboard which connects to a computer via USB and sends MIDI signals. This is achieved using an AN2131 development board. The AN2131 is now discontinued, so development boards can be […]
From Robots.net: Robocommunity, the official user community for WowWee robot owners, is offering classes in the Java programming language. The classes are based on the popular programming book “Head First Java” by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. They have also written some instructions for downloading and installing the Netbeans software too. The classes are open […]
Aaron Tiensivu has created a nice installer for XsX‘s alpha-blended cursors. Not only do they look cool, but Aaron lists some very good reasons for using them: #1 The cursors change color based on the action performed (Normal/Link Select/Etc) #2 They are easy on the eyes, professional looking, and most importantly, easy to locate on […]
Dave from uC Hobby sent us link to a Lab Tip about repurposing a bottled water bottle as a soldering station water bottle. Good tip (just make sure it doesn’t encourage you to over-water the sponge. You want it to be damp, not soppy). This made me think of one of my soldering tips. When […]
