I know Halloween is over, but this hack can control a lot more than just a spooky prop in your yard. You can usually pick these motion-detecting lights up for a bargain at the local home goods store. Just be careful, this is a high voltage hack! Yard-light motion sensors are a cheap and easy […]
Who knew you could make such cool looking furniture out of gas pipes? OK, a lot of you knew, but this is a really nice example of plumbing based furniture. It looks like something that would cost thousands in a boutique. DIY: Pipe furniture
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Remain Calm has a nice little roundup of homebrew music applications for use with Nintendo DS – ds music apps [via Matrixsynth]
Super Eggplant is sharing this pattern for the Puff Daddy scarflet – the pattern itself is fun to read, written by Kay Gardiner of Mason-Dixon Knitting. I think it would make a great cold-weather gift, for a basenji or a human.
Marc “Nostromo†Resibois wrote up a nice piece on Arduino for portable sound synthesis over @ CDM, referencing the Arduino Pocket Piano kit. My first hands-on with hardware was when I started fiddling with the Arduino piano. You might argue that once it’s built, it’s still software platform, but I really enjoy working on this […]
This simple mod shows how to add RCA audio and video outputs to an older Famicom (HVC-001) model in order to improve the video quality and to ensure that the channels that the system outputs on will match those of your TV. Famicom AV Mod
