DIY Haunts is upon us! This year’s Halloween contest, sponsored by Jameco Electronics, challenges makers to build the creepiest animatronic prop possible using sound, motion, and light. You can either design your own masterpiece or follow along as we build the Spooky Fun Tombstone Project, a scary styrofoam tombstone that splits in half while lighting […]
UNSW Industrial Design student Sam Adeloju’s Longreach Water Rescue System won this year’s James Dyson Award, surpassing the Minotaur Fire Nozzle System, Copenhagen Wheel, and Move-it cardboard hand cart for the £20,000 prize.
Welcome to Make It Last, a project build series and contest, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. Over the coming months, we’re going to cover a series of three project builds, demonstrating some of the finer points of low-power microcontroller design. We’re hoping these will be fun, informative projects and a good introduction to using “bare” […]
Our DIY Haunts contest is in high gear now and we’re stoked. Whether it’s a skull fountaining green slime or a coffin full of robot spiders, this is your opportunity to share your spooky build-skills. The contest is open to all skill levels, and is sponsored by Jameco Electronics. If you’d like to participate, you […]
Eeeeekkk! Don’t forget to sign up for our DIY Haunts newsletter. Doing so will get you weekly news and tips relating to the Halloween prop design contest, as well as frights fit to scare the ohms out of your resistors and reverse your diodes’ current flow. Signing on to the list will also get you […]
Enter your soft circuit project on Instructables for a chance to win LilyPad Arduino and Fashioning Technology gear/supplies. Deadline is October 11! Unlike traditional circuits on rigid circuit boards, soft circuits are flexible and are ideal for building into soft mediums like fabric or paper. For this contest, make an Instructable showing how you made […]
The leaves are changing, cool weather is blowing in. Children lie awake at night wondering what to choose for their costume and dreaming about the legendary candy hauls of yore. They also remember the coolest houses. You know, the ones whose owners went all-out decorating for the season. Scarecrows, cobwebs, and jack-o-lanterns startling and delighting […]
