How-To: Speckled Egg Wreath
Get a jump on spring decor with a pretty speckled egg wreath!
Month: March 2013
How-To: LED Gummy Candies
The good folks over at adafruit industries have put together an amazing tutorial on making gummy candies that look just like 10 mm LEDs!
Testing Batteries for Sulfation
Uber-maker Mikey Sklar demonstrates how to charge, test, and recover a sealed 12V lead-acid battery from the dumpster, using his Power In My Pocket open source kit.
13 Crafts (All of Them Rad) Inspired by “Breaking Bad”
The television show Breaking Bad has inspired a lot of neat craft projects – and most of them are pretty funny, to boot. I guess there’s just something endearing about the characters that makes people want to pay tribute them in cake, crochet, paper, embroidery, action figure, and Perler bead form. I gathered up my favorites to share with you here.
Component of the Month: Batteries
What goes on, exactly, inside those AAA batteries powering your LED flashlight? The short answer is: Chemistry. Chemical reactions can encourage electrons to flow out from one terminal and back to the other, doing some useful work along the way. Meanwhile, inside the battery, positive ions, also known as electron-holes, are changing places. Eventually the chemical reactions run down, and the battery stops delivering power. If it is a rechargeable type, you can force the electrons and the positive ions to go back where they started, ready to run again.
DIY WIsh Bracelets
What are you wishing for these days?
Art Hack Day Explores the God Mode
For hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is tech, Art Hack Day has established itself as an annual event of wonder in NYC.