Adafruit’s Punk LED Collar
Are you a geek with a punky side? Adafruit has put together a Punk LED Collar kit that might be for you.
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The Easy LED Color Organ: Get Ready to Rock with Weekend Projects!
If you like lights and music, you’ll have fun building this Easy LED Color Organ. You plug your music into it, and the circuit divides the sound into high, mid, and low frequencies and then flashes three different colors of LEDs according to those frequencies.
Rebuilding Old Capacitors
Check out this great tutorial by Don Fox over on Make: Projects, describing how to rebuild vintage caps using smaller modern capacitors inside the old housing. When working in an old TV, audio amplifier, or turntable, invariably I will run across capacitors of all types, paper, mica, electrolytic, etc…. Generally when we run into caps […]
Arduino-Controlled Daft Punk Cake
The Arduino has a blog post about a cool project, a 5-foot Daft Punk tribute cake equipped with moving rice krispie heads and light-up eyes, all controlled by an Arduino Mega. And did you spot the Lego neck articulation?
Dublin Mini Maker Faire This Weekend!
Dublin, Ireland’s second Mini Maker Faire is set for Saturday, July 27. Last year’s event drew 5,500 attendees and 35 maker exhibits. This year’s free event promises to be even bigger with more makers. In particular, there’s been a jump in the number of fabrication makers who will showing off everything from homemade CNC machines to 3D scanning booths.
Maker Hangar Episode 6: R/C Radios
Maker Hangar is a 15-part video series by Lucas Weakley. In Episode 6 of Maker Hangar, Lucas Weakley shows us the radios for R/C planes. We learn what all the sticks, switches, and knobs do as well as what they can be used for. We also see a glimpse into the past with old radio […]
How to Design the Perfect PCB
Check out this guide for designing a custom PCB.
