I love this beautiful furniture/art piece from Designer Asa Karner of Alvi Design. Formed from a series of planar surfaces that act as a back and rest, the Alvisilkchair is a playful and original take on seating. As Experimenta aptly points out, the designer’s inspiration for this lightweight, ethereal chair comes directly from wooden looms, […]
Instructible user fungus amungus turned his broken Nintendo Entertainment System into a flash drive dock and modded his game cartridges with 8GB flash drives. Now when he inserts the game carts into the NES, the drives appear on his desktop. As a nice touch, he added custom icons for each drive so that he knows […]
Check out this fun Bluetooth Handset Glove from Rachel over at Instructables. Place and receive calls with internationally recognized hand gestures. Roaming fees may apply.
Light up the proper pixels on your calendars, folks. Next Tuesday, March 15th, we’re having a town hall meeting at TechShop SF to discuss plans for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area event (May 21 & 22, 2011). Join Dale, Sherry, Louise and other Maker Media folks and fellow makers, as they discuss plans, seek […]
Every useful electronics project deserves a good enclosure. Providing a proper case for your circuit can protect it from accidental spills & falls – plus give it a cool look you can proudly show off to those unfamiliar with soldering and such.
Follow along with Collin as he turns a barebones function generator kit into a sturdy and versatile tone-box fit for noise-jamming & testing purposes. Get more info and a parts bundle: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/circuit_skills_electronics_enlosure.html
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/circuit_skills_perfboard_prototypin.html
When you think – “DIY electronics”, one of the first images that likely comes to mind is a bunch of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board – and that makes sense. Perfboard is super-versatile – essentially it’s just a grid of potential solder-point connections. You can trim it down to just the size you need – or leave extra space for future enhancements … or revisions, if need be.
Making your own printed circuit board can be a truly satisfying process, tying together electronics and the handmade craft of etching. It’s the most accurate way to build a circuit short of sending away to a PCB manufacturer and it’s a lot more fun (+ cheaper too!).
For a full list of materials used plus more tips for etching & drilling head over to MAKE’s site –
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/circuit_skills_circuit_board_etchin.html
