Electronic Crafts
Collin on Treehugger has an article about one of our CRAFT friends, Mouna Andraos of Electronic Crafts. Mouna’s got some green electronics ideas such as the “Bright Nights”, a little solar night light pictured above. Link.
Month: June 2007
Make a Messenger Bag out of Trash Bags – Make: PDFcast
This weeks podcast couldn’t have happened without Anda of Etsy who showed me how to fuse plastic and Federico of Eeio for coming up with an awesome bag design! Learn how to upcycle a bag out trash bags. All the details and measurements and step by step instructions are there! Download the pdf here! – […]
Binary marble adding machine
Matthias Wandel has the coolest project ever, a binary marble computer – It had occurred to me that perhaps with an insane amount of perseverance, it might be possible to build a whole computer that runs on marbles. My second marble machine was however much less based on logic – more on just making lots […]
Crafty Arm Rest
Radwriter on craftster.org made a perfect arm rest organizer that’s complete with a pincusion and pockets to hold her embroidery supplies and working projects. [ via ] Link.
Carbon fiber Xbox 360 controller
A maker sent in this rad carbon fiber Xbox 360 controller, but there isn’t any information on how it was made… That’s OK we have a great tutorial on this! – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Working with Carbon Fiber. Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites. Read this article in MAKE: […]
Parallel port oscilloscope
Here’s a pretty nice parallel port oscilloscope – This oscilloscope uses the SPP or EPP parallel port (LPT1) for reading the data from ADC. If your LPT1 is an ECP then the program automatically switches the LPT1 in byte mode (normal mode). BUT, not all parallel ports (LPT ports) are bidirectional. “Bidirectional” means, that except […]
DMX LED dimmer
The site is in German, but it looks like there’s enough to make your own LED dimmer, source and schematic included… Link.