HOW TO – Make Hand-Printed Fleece Scarves
Chrisjob at Curbly shares instructions in a video podcast for making your own hand-printed fleece scarves. They only cost about $2 to make and are great holiday presents.
Month: December 2008
Bicycle Rim Shot on MAKE: television
In just four weeks, Make: premieres on public television stations nationwide. But you can watch a preview right now. Here’s Cyclecide’s Paul Da Plumber and his Bicycle Rim Shot made out of recycled parts from the SF dump. View the clip above, get the M4V and/or subscribe in iTunes. And don’t forget to comment on […]
Guitar + 2 iPods = iTouch guitar
What’s the quickest way to add the capabilities of iPod Touch to your guitar? – try mounting 2 of them to your ax’s body! (hey, I said ‘quickest way’, not ‘cheapest’) The ipod closest to the guitar pick ups is running Itouch Midi’s Martix app which im using to send midi to Ableton Live on […]
Circuit Board-Inspired Cake
A friend at work recently surprised her husband with this circuit board-inspired birthday cake. She also served cupcakes with 40 written in binary on them.
simple DIY 555 synth
Youtuber sycmuzak posted this demo/explanation of his breadboarded sound circuit – My homemade 555 timer synthesizer. I made it in about 2 hours from 2 555 timers, 4 capacitors, 1 resistor and 3 potentiometers. Schematic can be made available if demand is high enough. This is one of my first 555 timer projects, and I’m […]
Circuit-bending with the LTC1799 kit
GetLoFi posted detailed info on using their LTC1799 Precision Oscillator kit for pitch control on a Casio SA-39 Keyboard – The kit oscillates at frequencies from 1KHz to 30Mhz and its output frequency is controlled with a potentiometer. The oscillation frequency from this kit can be substituted for the constant oscillation frequency a device receives […]
Hello, Craft Podcast Seeking Callers
Sister Diane of CraftyPod puts the word out that Hello, Craft is looking for contributors for their podcast: “Hello Craft is putting together a holiday episode of our podcast and would love to hear from you! The theme of the episode is getting and giving handmade for the holidays. Maybe grandma made you something really […]