Sarah Pease borrows from David A. Mellis’ open source speaker design and mates it with mason jars as enclosures. They not only have a great look, but different sizes and types of jars can be swapped out to create different sound signatures.
The new DVI-D Cape for the BeagleBoard BeagleBone is now available in the Maker Shed! It will allow your BeagleBone to output directly to a monitor allowing you to use it as a standalone computer.
User Alan Perekh posted this on the Hacked Gadgets forum. He baited the business end of his Shop Vac with some peanut butter, and plugged into an IR motion sensor. Whenever a mouse comes by to check it out, the sensor is trigger and the little rodent gets sucked into the vacuum, presumably for remote release.
Easy PVC pipe cannon filled with propane fuel fires foam Nerf darts at dangerous velocities.
Are you interested in learning more about Arduino but don’t know where to begin? Check out the Getting Started with Arduino Kit available in the Maker Shed! This popular kit includes everything you need to form a solid foundation with the Arduino microcontroller.
For the fifth year in a row, Brooklyn-based Ranjit Bhatnagar has committed to making an Instrument A Day every day in February
John “johngineer” De Cristofaro wrote a great tutorial on building an ATTiny2313 prototyping board. I created it because I use the Tiny2313 a lot, and I was tired of wiring up all of the above each time I wanted to work on a new circuit. Some things, like ISP headers and ceramic resonators, are not […]
