Crochet Cuff
Midnight Knitter has a cute crochet cuff pattern. A great way to use up some of your leftover yarn in your stash! Link.
Month: January 2007
HOW TO – Turn a broken digital camera into a time lapse camera
Natetrue writes – “I must admit I loved my Konica Minolta DiMAGE x50 camera. When the screen broke on it I was very saddened – though I moved on to a customized Kodak V570, I figured the old camera might still be useful. For a couple of months my old camera sat on my desk, […]
Make a physical RSS Reader with the MAKE controller kit! (It tells you the weather)
Brian (one our MAKE Media editors) writes – “This is my first Make Controller project. I wanted to grab weather feeds and display them on the Serial-Enabled LCD display I got from Spark Fun. Weather Underground has RSS feeds for their forecasts, so I used the Make Controller’s Socket* APIs to fetch the feed, grab […]
Assembling Amigurumi
Kim Werker of Crochet Me has a great tutorial on how to assemble and seamlessly sew up your crochet amigurumi dolls. Link.
HOW TO – Make your own thermometer
Kiteman writes – “About 300 years ago, Daniel Fahrenheit made and calibrated the first reliable thermometers. Some people* still use the scale he developed; the Fahrenheit Scale.” – Link. Related: LED Temperature thermometer project – Link. HOW TO – Make an AVR-Based statistics thermometer – Link. HOW TO – Make a digital thermometer – Link. […]
HOW TO – How to read a resistor (PDF)
R. Stern writes – “I work in a computer lab with a physical computing studio, and recently I cleaned out the component closet. It occurred to me that the reason we had a build up of unlabled resistors was because noone knew how to read them without the Resistulator widget or a resistance calculator website, […]
Help make a lamp
We get a lot of email asking for help making things and we try and post them up here so everyone can share in the questions and answers – here’s one from Emma… “I am making a lamp and am looking for the part shown in the attached photograph. If you have ever seen or […]