Dutch artist and music hacker Gijs Gieskes has struck again, this time hooking up a cassette machine (with audio on one channel, a rim-shot on the other, used as a trigger ) to an Ardunio and the Arduino to a Gakken SX-150, to create a sequencer for it. WalkSX More: How To – control a […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: a plush barricade by ChrisCreatures, this crochet tam by sunshine’s creations, 3D fabric origami by En Why See, paper-and-string-on-flickr’s craft room panorama, and this tiny brain by Anna at Mochimochi Land.
This week on CRAFT we saw: CRAFT Video: Pinhole Camera Travel Crafty Stockholm CRAFT Patter Podcast: Plush Squid Crafts on a Plane: Puffer Fish Barf Bag Puppet
Last week I wrote about interfacing an optical mouse with your Arduino. Vivi chimed in on the comments with some interesting information about the sensor, and a link to their version of a mouse scanner. It’s a really well documented build that I am definitely going to try out. Thanks Vivi! OK, so I finally […]
Anna at Cookie Madness posts her favorite blueberry muffin recipe in honor of yesterday’s “National Blueberry Muffin Day.” Anna writes: These are crowd-pleasing muffins. They don’t have big crowns, but they’re sweet, have a cake-like texture, and most people seem to like them. Even Fuzz, who doesn’t care for blueberry muffins, thinks this recipe is […]
GoCollege has an excellent interview with Charles Z. Guan, maker of the LOLrioKart: Piloting the kart during test runs wasn’t all that difficult when it was under control, but there were definitely a few moments where I thought somebody else was going to have to call home. The kart’s center of gravity is actually very […]
I made some fireworks on the 4th of July from the TurboPyro kit I received. The text, photos and in-line videos in the .pdf file made it easy to follow the recipe for big, fat, awesome tube sparklers. The process was simple and fun, and I had my son write up this handy checklist: First, […]
