Modular BeagleBoard touchscreen gadgets
The Antipasto folks have a short tutorial on how to assemble battery powered touchscreen BeagleBoard gadgets. There’s minimal soldering involved, but well worth heating up the iron.
DIY Projects
Nixie tubes + concrete block = cool clock
Check out Norwegian maker Hans Jørgen Grimstad’s concrete & nixie clock. (The video shows some sort of test, not the regular clock operation.) Hans’s website is in Norwegian, and Google Translate doesn’t savvy Norwegian very well, so its operation is somewhat mysterious. However, I do see that there’s an XBee involved. Hans, would you care […]
How-To: Digital delay pedal
Randy Sarafan writes in: Building guitar pedals is a time-consuming, often frustrating, and expensive process. If you think you will save time and money by making your own digital delay pedal, I highly advise you to read R.G. Keen’s page on the economics of pedal building. However, if like me, you are obsessive, enjoy messing […]
bildr – Community site for sharing know-how
At bildr we are rethinking the ways in which DIY sites have previously approached this world. Typically, the approach has been to showcase an individual’s project, while including instructions that would enable a user to create a duplicate. bildr’s method is quite different.
Drum solenoid interface for Tactile Metronome
If you stopped by our table at the Maker Faire, you got to play around with our big drum demo of the Tactile Metronome. Lots of people had questions about how we drove the solenoid for the drum striker, so we decided to write it up once we got back home.
Tensegrity sculpture with 3D-printed beams
Ryan Meuth of Phoenix, AZ, wrote in to share his tensegrity structure. This weekend I built a tensegrity structure as a demonstration of principles of balancing tension and compression in structures for one of the courses I’m teaching. I’m fascinated by the aesthetic of these structures – all triangles and edges, but somehow magical as […]
Three-part corset making series on CRAFT
May was all about sewing over at CRAFT, and I wanted to share one of our more ambitious how-tos from the month: Crafting a Corset, a three-part series by Alaina Zulli. More: Crafting a Corset, Part 1: Getting Started Crafting a Corset, Part 2: Assembly Crafting a Corset, Part 3: Hardware Wireless pain vest makes […]
