If it’s not too late, and you’re a NYC area Maker looking to beef up on your electronics/MIDI skills, you might want to check out LEMURplex and this MidiTron class… “By popular demand, we are adding a new weekend intensive class at LEMURplex on Basic Electronics and Physical Computing. The class will run on Saturday […]
Pcapelo has a pretty simple and easy way to make solar powered jack-o-laterns, he writes – “Lately I have had much interest in working with solar cells, because of this I initiated a project, and to be able to test it, I decided to create this lantern with a pumpkin. Solar energy always fascinated me […]
This site has a pretty simple interface for making your own ringtones – as always, Maker beware, I’m not sure if they store/keep your phone # or whatever… check out our related links for other ways to get and make free ringtones too… Link. Related: DIY ringtone projects – Link. Rington archives @ MAKE – […]
The Scarefactory has a ton of professional Halloween haunted house devices, gadgets and machines – I’m not in the market for anything like that, but some of the components look pretty handy (and the rest of the site is great for getting ideas for things if you’re building your own haunted house)…. [via] – Link […]
We covered this Speak-n-Spell kit awhile back, but there’s a new video and more info on the site, looks like a great kit to bring new life to a an old favorite toy… The sound samples are rad… – Talking Toy MIDI Retrofit Features Use MIDI to trigger thousands of sounds–words, word fragments, garbled speech, […]
Here’s a pretty interesting way to charge a lot of batteries with just one charger, Kalikast writes – “The following pages describe using relays with a high-current adjustable 13.5/15V power supply to automatically charge EV batteries one at a time, instead of concurrently in series. It will only work if you are not in a […]
Antics writes – “BEAM Art often features flashing LEDs. Here is a simple circuit borrowed from BEAM to flash a couple of LEDs. This is a modified version of Ben Hitchcock’s BEAM cricket. Pictured is the ‘flashing eyes’ part of the circuit. Unfortunately his site is gone and with it the original schematic. I backed […]
