Rosemary Mint Shaving Cream
With Father’s Day around the corner I’m digging this practical yet special DIY rosemary mint shaving cream by Food for my Family. Something a dad would actually use that also has that special homemade touch.
DIY Projects
Open-Source Microscope Illuminator
Stephen Richardson of Tangent Audio built the AZIZ light ring for his Bausch & Lomb stereo microscope. AZIZ is an LED microscope illuminator that I designed and built from scratch. It is designed around a Texas Instruments TLC59116 constant-current PWM LED driver chip, and an Atmel ATTiny1634 AZIZ has 64 LEDs, half super-bright and half […]
Beach Souvenir Terrarium
I have the beach on my mind and this cute beach souvenir terrarium in the Make It blog might just tide me over until I reach the actual tide.
Topaz + Arrow Launch
Crafters in the Washington, D.C. area (AKA MY HOMETOWN) you are the lucky residents of a city that just launched Topaz and Arrow, a creative collaboration between Morgan Hungerford and Virginia Arrisueño.
Starry Night Canvas Light
I am loving this dreamy starry night light by Corinne on Threadbanger.
Component of the Month: LEDs and Diodes
We kick off June with an excerpt from Syuzi Pakhchyan’s excellent resource for wearable tech, Fashioning Technology. Want to learn more about LEDs and diodes? We’ll be covering them all this month.
How-To: Color-Matching Chameleon Scarf
Another cool wearables project from Adafruit Director of Wearable Electronics and MAKE alum Becky Stern. In this design, Becky is showing off the capabilities of Adafruit’s FLORA wearable color sensor. She’s sewn it into a circuit with a FLORA microcontroller and 12 FLORA RGB LEDs, on a ruffled scarf designed to diffuse the light and give a softer effect.