Month: September 2007

Calling all Makers in Houston, TX 9/16 – The Children’s Museum of Houston

This past May, a jaw-dropping 45,000 people gathered at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in California for an event some called, “The Woodstock for inventors.” A one-of-a-kind event for tech geeks, crafty hipsters, DIY lovers, and basically, anyone who builds anything–from 7 year-olds to 70 year olds–Maker Faire brought together people from over 10 different countries […]

RC4560-based headphone amplifier

RC4560-based headphone amplifier

This SMD op-amp project uses the TI RC-4560 dual op-amp chip and a salt water-etched PCB. The builder got the op-amp as a free sample from Texas Instruments and scavenged all of the SMD resistors from old hard drive electronics. The results are not pretty, but they’re functional. The circuit used (with some changes) is […]

360 Degree speakers

These are pretty neat, 360 degree speaker concepts over @ Yanko Design – [via] Link. In the latest volume of MAKE (11) we show you how to make a “ball of sound” … a low-cost spherical speaker array. MAKE 11 – Page 141. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition or subscribe to MAKE!

Sew Darn Cute Sale

Before Jenny Ryan blogged here on CRAFT and ran Felt Club, she had her crafty business SewDarnCute where she made her own line of crafty goods. We’re lucky to have her here on CRAFT, but sadly SewDarnCute is shutting it’s doors. The good news is you can snatch up your very own batch of her […]