In the Maker Shed: LED Cube Kit
The LED Cube kit is an animated 3D cube of LEDs made by modifying the MiniPOV! It’s been a popular hack, and now all the parts are available in a kit from the Maker Shed.
Month: March 2011
How-To: Plant Jewelry
I love the idea of adding a little extra sparkle to a plain potted plant, and this tutorial for “plant jewelry” from Camilla at Family Chic shows you how to do just that. As she points out, it’s a fun and easy way to dress up a plant to give as a hostess or housewarming […]
Visualist: Circuit-Bending Television
Perhaps circuit bending isn’t the right term, but this is a pretty cool project. For this project I brought together a 3 channel LED light organ with a pal/ntsc video colourprocessor. The bass, mid and high of the sound is controlling the red,green and blue of the video. The image itself is highly reactive to […]
Knit Ferrari
Lauren Porter knitted up this full scale Ferrari replica back in 2006, but I think her ten months of hard labor deserves a fresh mention!
Recreating a 19th century Japanese Tsuba
One of our readers, Jimy Soprano, sent us the links to this incredibly inspiring short documentary of classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam recreating a lost masterpiece by the 19th century Mito tsuba artist Hagia Katsuhira. Years ago, I went off on a Samurai sword/Iaido kick and obsessed over every detail of Japanese sword construction, […]
Wolverine Fangirl Cake
Kimberly Chapman of Austin, Texas shares this rad Wolverine Fangirl Cake she created for the That Takes the Cake! Sugar Arts Show and Competition in Austin. Her entry consisted of this massive centerpiece cake, along with several other side cakes that depicted scenes from the movie and even a hand-piped essay about why she chose […]
Clear Snap-Together USB Project Enclosures
Adafruit’s most recent Part Finder Friday column featured these cool no-nonsense BUD USB 7201-C polycarbonate USB dongle cases, available at Digi-Key and Mouser and probably other places. They cost about $2 apiece if you’re only buying a couple and come in three pieces—two snap-together clamshell halves plus a connector cap—and take a 19x45mm circuit board, which seems to be a pretty common PCB size among commercial USB keys. I just ordered two to re-skin some generic thumb drives I own with bulky cases that won’t fit into the back port of my Xbox 360.. Good find, guys!