Hey Crafters! Each week this fall season, I’ll be contributing to Federated Media’s Fall Shopping Guide with home decor and design projects/tips. (Disclaimer: our ads are served through Federated Media.) The first post is up and it’s a Craftzine roundup of projects you can do to make your own lamps, featuring the bottle lamp from […]
jmluber writes in with another radio project – In the old days, people used radios that used a germanium diode (crystal radio) to receive am radio without the need for a battery (the radio wave powers this type of radio). This site modernizes that concept by showing you how to build a shortwave radio that […]
Gareth of MAKE and Street Tech points us to this overclocked bellydancing corset filled with steampunky clockwork charms worn by artist Libby Bulloff and created by Molly Mitchell. Link.
Mmmm, virtual pizza (cutting) – To demonstrate how much easier it is to use two handed multi-touch interaction instead of traditional interaction, Matthijs created a two handed multi-touch virtual pizza cutting knife for his graduation assignment at Working Tomorrow. Skip the first 75 seconds if you want to go straight to the demo. Multi-touch virtual […]
Chris writes – I am the author of the original Beakman’s Electric Motor page. Over the years, I have received dozens of e-mails asking me how to measure the speed of the motor. I got one such e-mail last week on the same day my Arduino Diecimila board arrived from the Make Store, so I […]
Mouna Andraos has created the Power Cart for the 2007 Conflux Festival in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s a portable street vending cart (complete with umbrella for shade) that can charge your gadgets with solar and crank power. Power Cart – [via] Link. Photos: Regine Debatty
Wow, here’s how to install and boot 145 operating systems on a PC (3 Dos, 5 Windows, 137 Linux) – Link.
