Paper-And-String’s Packing Area
Paper-and-String takes her readers on a tour of her workspace and packing area where she prepares her orders for shipping. She shares her organization methods and routines for packing orders, which are very handy!
Month: March 2010
Drawdio hack: the Syntheslicer
Jonathan Guberman wanted to hold a soldering class top help raise funds for the Site 3 hackerspace in Toronto. For his class’s soldering project he chose the Drawdio kit by Adafruit. The Drawdio is a toy that attaches to a pencil and uses the conductive properties of graphite to make noise from what you draw. […]
How-To: Build a super-Super Soaker
Over at Super Soaker Central (Ain’t the web great?), user JLspacemarine has posted this nicely-detailed build of a hardware-store constant pressure water gun. Although much heavier, it reportedly out-performs the commercial toys. [via Hack a Day]
Drawing pendulum
Thanks to Petros for submitting this cool project: a pendulum that slowly draws a picture. These two installations of spinning pendulums can “print” any low-resolution picture in a unorthodox way. The head of the “printer” is the pendulum, that starts spinning after an initial push. Beside this, the pendulum’s movement or position is not controlled […]
NYC Beekeeping Ban Lifted
PT @ Make: Online points us to this NY Times article about allowing NYC beekeeping! New York City is among the few jurisdictions in the country that deem beekeeping illegal, lumping the honeybee together with hyenas, tarantulas, cobras, dingoes and other animals considered too dangerous or venomous for city life. But the honeybee’s bad rap […]
BlipBox touch-sensitive LED matrix
Pingdynasty’s BlipBox project combines two 5×8 LED matrices with a TO576S transparent touchscreen to create an interesting MIDI/OSC controller with visual feedback – The BlipBox consists of a few simple elements cleverly put together. At the core there is a 10×8 matrix of super-bright LED’s with individually adjustable brightness. Overlaying this is a precision touch screen. […]
How-To: Peeps Bunny Bunting
Regardless of your opinion on the taste and texture of Peeps, this Peep bunny bunting from Dana of MADE is the perfect spring decoration with just a touch of humor.