An anonymous reader requested a hack today to solve a particular kind of kitty problem. Specifically, the reader wants to know if there’s a way to have a cat door that grants access to particular cats while restricting entry or exit for others. Not being a cat owner, I don’t follow cat electronics too closely, […]
From the technophobic department, Zoe Papadopoulou at the Royal Academy of Art is making these shields for anything electric, knitting a copper filament in her cozies and electrically grounding it. This provides some shielding from the electromagnetic fields these devices emit. Truth is, however, that the waves running through the air (cell phone frequencies, mainly) […]
Here’s a how-to on using an inkjet printer to assist in the creation of flexible conductive circuits. The printer is only used to transfer the circuit image onto the conductive fabric. You still have to paint the resist on by hand. Conductive Fabric: Make Flexible Circuits Using An Inkjet Printer. – Link
This one made me smile. Back in the late ’70s, a friend of mine, a machinist, gave me a sheet metal version of a back issue box template as a gift, the same basic one used here. I went nuts, cutting and folding dozens (and dozens) of boxes for my large magazine, small press, and […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Member Makaaberi built this interesting box o’ sound and vision – This has a wee noise generating circuit coupled with a led blinker to act as a vco, built inside a cheap led-light tunnel. Makes many funny noises greatly annoying my beloved wife. ^^ It’s true, the wives seldom love […]
Here’s another item for the “enclosure ideas” area – This portable USB charger was built using a Li-ion battery pack from a surplus Qualcomm phone and a pricey-but-efficient voltage step-down circuit. What seems most unusual is the enclosure chosen – Now we’ve got a working product, but it’s still bare electronics. They’d never let me […]
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes While at CHA, I got a chance to finally meet Betz White at the F+W Publishing booth. Betz was doing a demo showing two other women at the table how to make these cute felted sweater flowers. They were so easy to make and […]
