The Airheads MINI 4 kit can be used with most midi drum brains, synthesizers, or almost any midi I/O device. Once assembled, all you need to do is wave your hands over the velocity sensitive sensors to trigger your sounds. Note: Midi controller is required for use. Hint, Hint – Follow the Maker Shed on […]
A little birdie told me that W&L’s next kit has at least one mind-blowing hack on it. So mind-blowing that the guys want you to play around with it before they send off a kazillion PCBs to be printed. Free hardware! We’re looking at producing some of our upcoming kits in vast vast numbers (for […]
Enjoy Superbowl Sunday with some crafts and snacks! You could whip up some cupcakes in your team’s color to celebrate a win, but perhaps its best to have at least one comfort food dish on hand in case your team loses.
Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane has a fun Cupid printable up over at The Thompson Family-Life that would make for a quick and easy Valentine project. Head on over and check it out!
Whats more hardcore than making your own synthetic aperture radar system? How about teaching a class how to build their own using some breadboardable electronics, empty coffee cans, and a spare laptop? That’s exactly what radio whiz Greg Charvat did this semester at MIT, and you can see some of the results that students are […]
Joris Peels, of i.materialse, has a curious hobby he calls “Skynet search.” He goes around the internets looking for evidence of the real-world emergence of Skynet. He posted this item about RoboEarth to his blog. RoboEarth is an attempt at creating a sort of Google Earth/Internet for robots, a place where standardized navigation and object […]
The “Skin Gun”. A simple idea backed by stem cell research. It’s a spray gun that sprays skin. It uses your own cells, and the new skin is sprayed on – within a few *days* it’s completely healed. Still experimental, very promising. So first up, medical advances and within 10 years graffiti artists will be […]
