The wall piano
Hon Lam Li’s Wall Piano turns any wall into a piano! – Link.
Month: July 2007
555 chips? Bet you can’t eat just one
Every wirehead knows about breadboards, prototyping board, circuit design software, and other tools for circuit designing, but what about Lifesavers, SweeTarts, and Twix components on a graham cracker substrate? It takes the “differently wired” high domes over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs to dream up the idea of modeling circuits out of candy snacks. Models […]
Play ripped DVDs with VLC
Steve Anderson wrote in about an underused feature of our favorite open source video player, VLC. I discovered yesterday that the wonderful VLC media player has the ability not only to mount a DVD directory that’s been ripped to the hard drive, but also to play a .iso image of a DVD. Seeing as I’ve […]
The $3.00 sprinkler timer
John writes – A few years ago we built a large cover over our back deck, and shortly thereafter put up a few hanging baskets for flowers. Here (in Arizona) the summers are hot enough that you have to water the baskets at least twice a day to keep the flowers alive. The problem: I […]
CRAFT Magazine’s Carla and Goli at Tinlark Gallery in Hollywood, Saturday July 14th
If you are in Southern California this weekend, come by Tinlark Gallery (Crossroads of the World, 6671 Sunset Blvd., No. 1512, Hollywood) for the Modern Day Fables show on Saturday, July 14th from 4pm – 10pm. The event is an opening reception for artists Laura Normandin, Ann Wood, and Maggy Rozycki Hiltner. The opening is […]
Bare-Bones Arduino
The prolific R. Stern writes – I just assembled my newly-arrived Bare-Bones Arduino clone, developed by Paul Badger. How great! Not only is it perfect for embedding in projects, but the instructions Paul made to go along with it make it so easy. I wish I had a teacher like him when I was learning […]
Crafty Ginger’s “U Pick My Next Knit” Contest
Kari of Crafty Ginger’s got a special contest for you where you can win one of her beautiful tree branch earrings pictured above. Kari writes: I still can’t quite believe I finished knitting my Wisp in less than a week. I wasn’t planning on having it done this fast, and so I hadn’t given much […]