The above is an example of what the circuit benders at the Hack Factory will be building in Handmade Music: Minneapolis (HMMM), their regular music-making event. The next Handmade Music: Minneapolis will be on Saturday May 1st, starting at 5pm. Alex Deeba (from GetLoFi) and Michael Una will be holding a Workshop to build an […]
Ants walking through IR gates manipulate the Auduino synth program. John spotted this at the RobotFest / Mid-Atlantic Mini Maker Faire. He writes – I went to the RobotFest / Mid-Atlantic Mini Maker Faire yesterday. I saw this awesome project and thought you might like to put it on the blog. Basically it’s an ant […]
The space geek in me loves to see just about any space-themed craft, but this awesome needle felted launching space shuttle from Flickr user, OKA Diorama, is especially cool. Thanks, Moxie, for feeding my space craft addiction!
Courtney of St. Louis, Missouri’s Twisted Handmade takes “recycled/pre-loved/found” data wire and cable and artfully weaves and twists them into unique jewelry items. Twisted Sunshine Data Wire Bracelets Black and Green Hoop Earrings Cable Bracelets Weavy Data Wire Earrings Twisted Handmade is Courtney Chesley, aka Courtney Watson, who was born and raised in Bellevegas, IL, […]
Some of the newer DLSR cameras will shoot surprisingly good HD video. Put one on a RC helicopter and you’ve got one exciting toy that can that can take a professional quality shot at a fraction of the cost. Texas-based videographer, maker, and RC pilot Eric Austin has done just that by rigging a Canon 7D to a hobbyist RC helicopter. The resulting shots are amazing.
It’s the ultimate retro gaming meets personal hygiene mashup. These bars of soap shaped like classic game cartridges from Indiana maker Lesly Karpiuk will certainly increase the nostalgia points of your domicile’s lavatory.
I’ve been playing around with the for Arduino from the Maker Shed, and I realized that I needed a basic understanding of how the seven segment display works, in order to do anything interesting with it. When addressing the display from the sample Arduino sketch, I was pulling pre-formed characters from an array of hex values.
