Steve writes – I am learning about electronics by building a toy laser gun. This is the sound and light effects circuitry in development. The top board has a 555 monostable timer, which turns on a bright red LED, a laser, and the sound effect. It also triggers a second board, which has 555 oscillator […]
Jona and Claire had the genius idea to make a laptop sleeve in the shape of a manila envelope that’s perfect to hold the new Apple MacBook Air laptops! Jona and Claire write: AirMail laptop sleeves were invented by a couple of kids with Steve Jobs crushes and awesome sewing skills. They’re handmade out of […]
After my post last week about disabling the navigation lockout on Lexus and Toyota nav systems, I received a request from an unhappy Ford owner with the same problem. After a bit of searching, I unfortunately wasn’t able to turn up any straightforward “secret-password” solution for this. What I did find, however, is a straightforward […]
Our pal, and MAKE contributor, Xeni Jardin posted the following on Boing Boing: Each year, a string of Yuri’s Night World Space Parties around the globe celebrate humankind’s first foray into space. That first human was Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The events are a lot of fun (I hosted one in […]
Reform School in Los Angeles is kicking off 2008 with a great new art show from Matte Stephens, which happens this Saturday night from 7-9pm. New original work will be on display, including his exclusive Reform School-only print called “Fossil Fuel Fun”. You’ll also be able to enjoy candy, cupcakes, retro soda and booze. Link. […]
From the CRAFT Flickr pool comes this free papercraft Chibi Yeti download, courtesy of Macula. Link.
Here’s a “software-sequencer which controls 8 solenoids that knock on different things and therefore produce rhythmic noise. Made with Puredata, an Arduino and a homemade relayboard to control the solenoids”.
