Understanding the Color Wheel
Curbly’s DIY Maven helps break down the color wheel and explains the basics of how it works, color groupings, and more. Link. Related: Random Stripe Generator helps you mix and max colors for your craft projects – Link.
Month: January 2007
Ice Skating Sail
If Lake Washington ever freezes, I’m crossing it this way! Mark Harris says, I was lucky to take it out on a day with smoothly varying winds from 20-40mph (10-20m/s), and although slightly overpowered, I could cruise comfortably at 15mph (20kph), with bursts over 20mph (30kph). This top speed was definitely not limted by the […]
AVR Pong
The classic pong game. Two players. Press the buttons to move paddles up/down. Ball bounces back and forth. If you fail to catch it, your opponent gets one point. Score difference is showed with blue LEDs. Blue LED = lead by one point. If you then win another point, you win the game, and your […]
HOW TO – Turn a Rice Bag into a Purse
Eliza of everything @ once has a great post on how she created a custom purse for herself out of a used rice burlap bag. I love the added sequins to the front! Link.
YouTube Kaleidoscope
After rolling out his many excellent Coverpop visualizations (but before getting tapped by Yahoo! to work on similar cool stuff for them), Flickr Hacks coauthor Jim Bumgardner created this amazingly fun kaleidoscope viewer for YouTube videos. Just plug in any YouTube URL (or choose one of the nine preset movies provided by Jim) to return […]
Turn your $60 router into a $600 router
Adam says, Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history, but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in […]
See Better with Pinhole Eyes
Bre Pettis, Make: Blog‘s resident Media Maker, adds this photo and description to the Hacks Flickr pool: If you wear glasses like me, you’ll forget them at some point or you won’t have them on and you’ll need to read a street sign. The magic of a pinhole can help. By looking through the hole […]