LEGO rings
Mathea’s sterling silver LEGO rings make for some cool modular jewelry possibilities – neat idea! – LIFESTYLE_Schmuck_Noppenringe More: LEGO man jewelry
Month: December 2008
HOW TO – Knitted Horse Head
Phil @ MAKE spotted this pattern for a knitted horse head by Becca Compton. What a perfect gift for The Godfather fan in your life.
GorF 8-step sequencer
Paul of Vacoloco needed an easy way to test out some of his synth projects so he built a basic sequencer based on an ATmega16 chip – It sends MIDI notes and velocity on a user selectable Midi channel along with two MIDI CC’s (user selectable) and of course has variable sequence length. You can […]
Melocipede bicycle instrument
Neil Feather demonstrates his unusal pedal based instrument – The Melocipede “is a bicycle-based roto-zither. It has 14 strings (strung hub to rim) and 8 (1.5v ) motors and 4 magnetic pickups. The pickups run through a mixer as the melocipede is pedaled in both directions and bouncing plucking etc.happens. It sounds alternately like a […]
HOW TO – Diecut Chandelier Ornament
Whip Up points us towards this lovely and girly chandelier ornament tutorial from Cheeky Magpie. It’s made using a Cricut digital die-cut machine for scrapbookers (though if you’re patient I suppose you could cut it by hand). Cheeky Magpie also shares more info on diecut machine files and software here.
Image processing in Mathematica
A clown fish, diced into 40 pixel squares. Theodore Gray demonstrated some impressive image processing features of Mathematica 7 on the Wolfram blog. You can drag and drop an image right into a line of code and perform a number of image processing functions on it directly. I’m not sure how many of you are […]
Magbot solar pendulum
Gary Gipson was inspired by the Magbot Pendulum project in Dave Hrynkiw’s wonderful Junkbots, Bugbots & Bots on Wheels. Greg made a few changes. He put the electronics package on a little swinging bot and made the permanent magnet stationary to the base. The bot’s LED eyes light up when he first starts out over […]