The Trash to Treasure contest for kids recently wrapped up with a weekend of making for the three teen winners at Continuum’s offices near Boston. Daniel, MaryAnn and Lily all submitted text and image entries of their devices intended to make use of recycled materials that would make an improvement for others.
This Netduino powered Deadmau5 mask is just in time for Halloween. It ‘listens’ to the music and displays colors based on it’s beat. You could do a lot more with all that processing power, maybe there will be a v2.0?
Here’s a neat article about squid — it appears that they can control the allowing them to send ‘secret’ messages that are only visible to the few other animals capable of detecting polarization.
MAKE subscriber James wrote in to share the Hackvision, an open-source video game system based around the Arduino platform.
Halloween is just around the corner and the next thing you know, it’s gift giving season again. Here for some recycled wrapping inspiration is John Boak who has some new wraps up on his site Wrap Artist. I love the layered beauty of his Japanese inspired wedding gift wrap and the ingenious use of using […]
The winners from our recent giveaway for Simply Sublime Gifts: High-Style, Low-Sew Projects to Make in a Snap by Jodi Kahn are Hanna from Minneapolis, MN, Lindsey from Chicago, IL, and Andrea from Fenton, MI. Congrats! Thanks to everyone who entered. More giveaways are coming soon.
If you want to create a spooky welcome for trick-or-treaters next weekend, try this cool skeleton tutorial from Meg of Mega-Spooky. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food – whatever you create for Halloween is welcome in the contest. […]
