Fall Jersey Dress
Learn how to sew up this cute jersey dress perfect for fall with this tutorial by Alli_Lucy on Craftster. I love the ribbon detail and subtle bubble flounce of the dress. Link.
Month: September 2007
Maker Faire Austin 2007 posters
You wanted them and you’ve got’em – Maker Faire Austin 2007 posters. Print, share, remix – have a ball! – Link.
Famicom NES Mod
This Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom mod includes custom built knobs soldered onto the Nintendo’s motherboard that tweak the video output of the graphics engine. Potentiometers and buttons also affect controller input, sound output, and the game cartridges themselves. The output is chaotic and used for VJ sets.
Electronic, battery-less dice
Dhananjaygadre writes – A Microcontroller, AVR Tiny13 based electronic dice, that does not use any battery or any normal power source. Instead it derives its power from a voltage generator based on the Faraday principle using a coil wound over a tube and a magnet inside the tube. To use the dice, just shake the […]
DIY Vacuum extraction recycling facillity, also known as the super can crusher
Here’s the latest “Gadget Freak” from our friends @ Design News – Let’s say you have a Beer Chucking Refrigerator within range and a Can Crusher out in the shed. Now all you need is a way to get the empties out to the can crusher without having to get up and walk out to […]
Handmade music night has returned – 9/27/07 NYC
Michelle has a reminder for the Create Digital Music ETSY/MAKE event this week! – Handmade Music is an evening of original creations for music making, open to the creative minds of the New York area. It’s equal parts party, show-and-tell, performance, and science fair, open to whatever oddball software and hardware people want to bring, […]
Pyro-tech hack fixes infamous iBook video defect
Jason Striegel of Hackszine writes: Mark Hoekstra from GeekTechnique subjected his iBook’s motherboard to successive rounds of burnination and managed to correct the infamous iBook video display defect. Had this not succeeded, I think I’d still have to give him 10 points for style. In addition to other quality control problems like frayed wires in […]