Month: December 2013

Are you or your loved ones craving a new hobby? Give gifts that aren’t half-baked with the Maker Shed’s Raspberry Pi Gift Guide, which is all about the mini-computer that has taken the programming hobbyist world by storm.

This year artists Amy L. Rawson and Brian East created a felted Santa Cthulhu, but it’s actually the 5th time they’ve done it!

Often in synth-DIY trouble-shooting and/or circuit experimentation, a signal source with variable frequency and amplitude is just what you need to test a circuit’s behavior. If the signal source has a variety of wave-shapes, it will serve in more scenarios. This article will present a 9V battery-powered function generator that outputs sine, square, and triangle waveforms. The frequency is adjustable from about 20 Hertz to about 11KHz and the output level can be varied from 0 to about 3V, peak to peak.

Vampire Tools recently sent me a pair of their All-in-One Eshears, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using them in a variety of settings so far. Vampire has a reputation around the office for creating tools with gorgeous grips, great attention to detail and a finished product with high tolerances and unwavering durability. Thankfully, the Eshears stood up to our high expectations.

If you’re anything like me, then you like a mug with character, so I heartily approve of this quirky Viking beer mug made using only a hatchet and a knife by Instructables user bricobart.