MAKE contributor Larry Cotton outfitted his Player Marimba (as seen in MAKE Volume 4, page 20) with MIDI control via two MD24 decoders from Highly Liquid. Nice – wouldn’t mind hearing a bit of the instrument play solo. [via Highly Liquid]
Bunnie Huang recently announced the release of chumby One’s schematics and gerber files used for manufacturing. Along with the hardware docs he shares the above bit of eye candy, a cross section of the Chumby PCB – The region you are looking at is the back side of the CPU/memory region of the PCB, and […]
Synaptics’ Fuse prototype demonstrates novel input methods for mobile devices. Squeeze, grip, flex, or tilt to interact with the device using various Synaptics technologies.
It’s not that OS that you’re not using… it’s VISTA, an amazing new telescope via Wired A new telescope — VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) — has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and has made its first release of pictures. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths […]
I can’t believe we haven’t posted about these in the past (unless I missed them) — it’s a series of instructional MIT videos on “Machining Skills for Prototype Development.” Quite a nice little introduction to basic machine shop skills. [Thanks to Riley Porter, who posted this on the HacDC e-list] MIT TechTV — Machine Shop […]
Here’s an interesting stocking stuffer, probably one of those tools most of us wouldn’t have in our toolbox, but would relish once we’d used one. Via the Cool Tools review: I’m giving gimlet sets to a few lucky in-laws this year. I’ve found them to be a great time saver whenever I need a hole […]
Sheena, Laura, and I had a great time yesterday hanging out and working the CRAFT table at Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco. We ran into old friends, did some holiday shopping and talked to a lot of crafters and makers. It was great to see and hear all the projects that people are working on. I […]
