How-To: Discreet Pants Fly Checker
Instructables editor Randy Sarafan created this amazingly useful tutorial that discreetly checks that your fly isn’t down and alerts when it is!
Electronics
Create a Fountain for UIST’s Student Innovation Contest
UIST (the ACM Symposium on User Inerface Software and Technology) is holding a Student Innovation Contest available for students ranging from high school to Ph. D.: The goal of the contest is to innovate new interactions on state-of-the-art hardware. We give you the hardware, and you show us what you can do. Contestants will demo […]
MAKE Presents: The Capacitor
Collin Cunningham provides an elegant description of capacitors, including early caps called Leyden jars.
Papercraft Dioramas Inside Papercraft Electronics
Artist Kevin LCK produced a series of sculptures called “Ordinary Behavior,” featuring amazingly detailed papercraft dioramas that examine our everyday relationships with electronics.
New American Sweatshop
Artist and inventor Amelia Marzec has created an ingenious community project, called “New American Sweatshop,” in which she is attempting to reduce our dependence on electronics produced in sweatshops by salvaging components from broken electronics to be used in new domestic electronics projects. The New American Sweatshop is an immersive experience where participants re-purpose electronic […]
Book Review: Arduino Adventures
Authors James Floyd Kelly and Harold Timmis teach kids how to use Arduinos, using a science-fiction angle to engage their readers.
Ice Tube Clock Kit – Surplus Soviet Goodness
In Soviet Russia you don’t tell time. Time is told to you with a vacuum tube! Relive the Cold War (at least the neat tech part of it) with Adafuit’s Ice Tube Clock Kit. It’s this week’s Deal of the Week in the Maker Shed so don’t miss out!
