This jacket designed by Martin Margiela took over 103 hours to make, all from ski gloves (I bet it’s really warm!)… – “Ski gloves are used as the raw material to create a blouson with or without sleeves. Over dyed in dark colours the gloves are unstitched and laid flat so that all original detailing […]
Peter Green sent in his tiny mac portable mod, it’s a tablet too… – “Hi, here’s my latest MMP – it’s the WORLDS SMALLEST & LIGHTEST Mac Laptop/plamtop/UMPC made from a Mac Mini Core Solo 1.5!” – Link. Related: Case design – Link. Internal electronics – Link. More Mac mini mods – Link.
Get LoFi shows how to “circuit bending” a computer, nice! – “Computer Bending Yes, it is possible. I always wondered what would happen if you start circuit bending a computer. The obvious answer is that it will crash. Indeed it is not very good to cross pins on the motherboard. However this does not always […]
We had the folks from monome out to Maker Faire earlier this year, and here’s a demonstrates of some hardware hacks to their open-source grid controller (the 40h… Brian writes – “The monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of backlit buttons– the firmware is open source, and we encourage hardware hacks. We’ve also posted extensive […]
Design News has its latest “Gadget Freak” – this one is a motion detection system that will turn on a sprinkler to scare off cats, varmints (and others) off your yard… Hap writes – “I had a problem with cats (and other small animals, armadillos, etc) getting into our flower beds and causing “undue stress” […]
John writes – ” Some time after reading “A Powerful New Light Source for Ultraviolet Detection of Scorpions in the Field” I decided to build my own scorpion detection device instead of buying an uv flashlight. I ordered fifty 5 mm UV LEDs (light emitting diodes) at the website of LSDiodes.” Thanks Paul! – Link.
Wow, this is a really nice design… – “Speleogroup is experimenting with circuits for driving high-power LED devices, such as the White LED Luxeon Star from Lumileds ». This device is rated at approximately one watt, giving typically 18 lumens at its rated current of 350mA. Their high dome Amber Luxeon star gives 36 lumens […]
