Softie Pattern – Easu
Rachel of Tigerluxe has a free pattern on her site to make this funky jeans-wearing softie named Easu. Link.
Month: July 2007
Wine Glass Photo Frames
Here’s a fun idea for your next cocktail party or knitting group meet up, add fun photos to the bottom of a wine glass. No one will ever mix up their glass. If the idea of a fun face starting back at you is too creepy to imagine, you could even use landscape or close […]
Pinholes, Zone Plates and A Camera Made Out of Boxes!
Two new Instructables about pinhole photography showed up this week. If you’ve never played around with non-digital photography, this is a really fun. Being in a dark room and seeing your own lensless photos appear magically in a tray of chemicals is a magical experience that everyone should have! Zoneplates are like pinholes, but they […]
Measure your 0-60 time with a Wiimote
Here’s how you can use the Wiimote’s built-in accelerometers to measure your ride’s G forces and 0-60 time: I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment. Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, acceleration and even calculate my own 0-60mph times! […]
Wiimote as car accelerometer
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
Six-button capacitive touch pad
JustDIY has project for creating a six-button touch pad using the Quantum QProx QT160 QTouch chip. The build looks fairly straightforward, with the QTouch chip doing most of the heavy lifting. Gordon says you have to use mylar caps, as ceramics can’t cut it. He promises more details later. Capacitive touch sensing – Link Related: […]
End of the Weekend – Watch the Weekend Projects Podcast!
Don’t miss this weekend’s weekend projects podcast! Watch the video and see a biosphere made and then download the pdf and follow the directions to make your own. Subscribe in itunes and get this video and more delivered automatically. – Link