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.
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 […]
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 […]
30 Days of Creativity is a social initiative encouraging people to create stuff, anything, every day for 30 days. This is your excuse to buy that tub of Playdough, unbox your Erector set, or dust off your Holga. You might be working on one huge project for 30 days straight. Maybe you are creating something […]
Here’s the source code for my Arduino + PING))) + 7-Segment Shield ultrasonic distance sensor. It is the progenitor of my Arduino Nerf sentry gun code, which I’ll be posting soon.
Instructables user janw writes: A lot of people, especially elderly people, take a lot medication on a daily basis to stay as healthy as possible. Some of that medication needs to be taken on a exact time, or they don’t function as well. So I decided to make a machine that automatically gives the right […]
My new book is out! Made by Hand is about the fun and fulfillment I got from making my own stuff. I wrote about my not-always-successful attempts to do things like raise chickens, keep bees, grow and preserve food and make my own musical instruments. Made by Hand is published by Portfolio / Penguin, who […]
