Month: April 2011

In the Maker Shed: TV-B-Gone Kit

In the Maker Shed: TV-B-Gone Kit

In honor of Screen-Free Week, the Maker Shed has a great deal on the TV-B-Gone. Turn any TV on or off with a click of the button! With the new and improved Gen 3 model, even big-screen LCD TVs aren’t safe anymore! New features include instant reactivation with the press of a button, a bigger […]

Candy Images

George Hart @ MAKE writes: Tim Chartier at Davidson College has discovered that if you make things out of candy there’s no lack of volunteers to help you clean up. He takes images and transforms them mathematically into arrays of candy pieces. Here you can see President Obama, as rounded to the set of m&m […]

Mechanical Twitter Feed

This is a super-rough hardware sketch of what a mechanical Twitter feed might look like. I’ve been playing with ideas around combining digital projection with mechanical motion and this is a prototype to test some of the ideas. It consists of a series of people I follow on Twitter represented as their user photo printed […]

How-To: Faux Pysanky

I love the look of traditional pysanky, but between not having a steady hand and not having much free time, I tend to shy away from it. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes has a brilliant idea for achieving the delicate pysanky look with Sharpies instead of wax and dye. As she points out, it’s also a […]