At Maker Faire you can actually touch an amazing collection of books, kits, projects and more in the Maker Shed. Come on by for a demo of some of the kits, meet the designers and makers of the kits, learn to solder on your own gear. It is really nice to check out the things […]
When not working on Make: television, writing for Make: Online, and working as a character mechanic for Disney, our bud John Edgar Park, along with fellow MAKE contributors Brian Jepson and Tod Kurt, have been burning the midnight solder on some new peripherals for the Arduino world that they’ve dubbed WingShields. The first kit in […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Eric’s new LITE2SOUND kit sounds like a lot of fun. He reports on some early experimentation using the board’s photodiode sensor – pointing it at a computer CRT yields a strange humming tone that varies depending on what the screen is displaying. The LED in an optical computer mouse plays […]
Flickr member Segwaymonkey got the new Spikenzielabs’ SpikenzieLabs Drum Kit-Kit and was inspired to create a set of laser-cut pads for it. Sweet. I love the engineering of the vibration-dampening “springs.” The Drum Kit Kit Laser Cut Rig
MAKE subscriber Gregg Horton used a Thingamakit along with a hacked karaoke machine to create a rather large area of theremin-esque sound control. Cool – at around 2m30s in it does start working quite nicely! Check out more of Greg’s projects on the Groovy Pancakes blog. In the Maker Shed: Thing-a-ma KIT
From the MAKE Flickr pool JoeLMutantE lives up to his name with this monster sound & light machine born from two Thingamakit boards and a whole lotta wiring – This is a little MutanT based on the Thingamakit noise-synth. It has trhee diferent led-acles (led tentacles) and a pair of sense-acles (photo-sensor tentacles) that react […]
I spent some time getting acquainted with the Gakken Premium Theremin and was pretty impressed with it, especially considering the relatively low price tag. Unlike most theremins this one runs off battery power, so an armband contact is used in place of an earth-ground reference. The unit sports fine/coarse pitch & volume pots, 1/8″ audio […]
