DIY smartphone tripod adaptor
Check out this nifty DIY smartphone tripod adaptor from instructables user spiderham. It looks like the glif’s big brother, but instead of fancy rubberized plastic, it’s made from scraps laying around the house.
DIY Projects
Arduino MIDI accordion
Incredible, a MIDI accordion for under $100! Ukraine’s Dmitry Yegorenkov wanted a way to practice accordion while wearing headphones, and didn’t want to shell out over six grand for the Roland model with MIDI out, so he made his own, source code and schematics included. Accordion Mega [via Arduino Blog]
How-To: Lunchtime clock
Randy Sarafan writes: Have you ever wished lunchtime were longer, but didn’t know where to find those few extra minutes? Well, wish no longer! Thanks to great in advances in clock technology, I present to you a clock that speeds up 20% every day at 11:00 and slows down 20% every day at 11:48, giving […]
How-To: Valentine motor
Mrfixits writes: This Valentine instructable shows a pair of Hearts that unite to become one! The homopolar motor is the simplest form of electric motor, consisting of a battery, a conductor, and a magnetic field. The flat Heart shape is the most basic of homopolar motors. The Heart with legs is the next most simple […]
Quiz-O-Tron 3000 Arduino quiz lockout system
If you’re an aspiring Alex Trebek with some Arduino skills, you should check out RoysterBot’s Instructable on how to make a Quiz-O-Tron 3000, an electronic quiz contestant lockout system, which allows contestants to “buzz in” during trivia games. He used it at a holiday party and therefore needed something sturdy enough to withstand the hand […]
5th annual thing-a-day
It’s that time of the year again! February is Thing-A-Day month: Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog.Sign-up now to get inspired and fight the mid-winter blues! Registration opens Jan 21st and ends at midnight […]
DIY telecine converts film to video
A telecine is a machine which converts motion picture film into video. The process is a bit more advanced than just pointing a video camera at a running projection of film. Each film frame is captured individually and some advanced math goes into converting the frame rate to video, if necessary. They’re extremely complex and […]
