New in the Maker Shed: Hackable Pixel Qi displays
Well, I finally get to let the cat out of the bag. We’ve got Pixel Qi screens available in the Maker Shed as of today.
DIY Projects
How To: Make Your Own Gears
Gears are easy to understand, make, and use, IF you know the vocabulary and can space the gears at the correct distance apart.
Your Tag: Big, bright and all over Europe
The inimitable Evan Roth wants to bring your graffiti tag to giant digital display systems all across Europe, as part of the Media Facades Festival. Here’s how to submit yours: 1) Digitally capture your graffiti tag using the free (and open source) Graffiti Analysis Capture Application (HOW TO guide here). Your tag will be saved […]
Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics
[Note: Jameco is currently offering all the parts I used in this video as a perfboard prototyping kit — just add wire & solder. ] When you think “DIY electronics,” one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board — […]
Homemade bath faucet / showerhead
There’s no doubt I have eccentric tastes, but I love the way this looks. Would be even cooler if she had, like, a stainless steel feed trough or something for the tub.
Things heat up for OpenPCR project
Just last week we mentioned the OpenPCR project and included a link to their Kickstarter page. Throughout the week support for the project poured in from all over the Internet and eventually the project surpassed their initial target. Then on Friday the project hit a snag. The heated lid that warms the top of the tubes kept burning out. That’s when Tito Jankowski decided to post a question soliciting feedback on O’Reilly Answers.
How To: Edge-lit display
Inspired by EMSL’s holiday cards, Grathio wrote up his steps for creating edge-lit displays for general usage covering an easy method for multi-image displays – Lets say we’re making an electronic Tic-Tac-Toe game. Ideally we want either an X or an O in the same place. To do this we make and X and an […]
