Lightefface Makes Music with Both Touch and Light
Kacper Ziemianin made a simple piano keyboard with an Arduino and some photoresistors. But it’s what he does with the data that makes beautiful music.
Month: February 2013
Flashback: Make a Potluck Dish Cozy from an Old Sweater
Refashion a felted wool sweater into a potluck dish cozy. The food will stay warm, and when you get there, you’ll have a built-in trivet to set it on!
How-To: Ball-in-Cage Switch
A ball-in-cage switch is a mechanical alarm switch that works on an ingenious principle. It has a single relatively unstable “open” position, in which a metal ball rests in a small divot in an insulating base, inside a cage made from two U-shaped metal staples that overlap one another without contacting. The ball is too […]
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Video: Oreogami Oreo Animation
Kelly Cheatle and Larry Moss are always up to something new and awesome, but this Oreogami Oreo animation video definitely takes the cake…er, cookie!
Black Makers Month: John Glass
John is my dopplegänger. He works at NASA. That’s cool! He is an outer-space food packaging expert, a motocrosser, and an Arduino hacker. We all take packaging stuff for granted, but I can assure you that there are many challenging trade-offs. It’s great that someone as talented as John is working on these critical issues. I like the motocross and Arduino hobbies, too! I’m wondering if he’ll find a way to combine all those talents? I did hear that John has an Arduino project involving motocross. Good start! If only there was a way to get NASA involved with that project…
How-To: Silk Bow Baby Headband Tutorial
Adorable baby girls in oversized bows keep making an appearance in so many of my friends’ photos these days, so I couldn’t resist sharing this simple silk bow baby headband tutorial from See Kate Sew!