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Hacked Oyster Card Ring

Hacked Oyster Card Ring

Anyone who’s spent time in London probably has an Oyster card sitting in their wallet or a miscellaneous drawer somewhere, but digital designer Dhani Sutanto has devised a more stylish way to access the London underground with this Oyster ring. The project basically consists of taking the chip and antenna from an Oyster card and […]

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Bad Posture Detecting Belt

Bad Posture Detecting Belt

Michael Colombo over at MAKE spotted this terrific belt that detects bad posture by Ellen Sundh. Using an arduino, a wave shield, a sensor, and a speaker, the belt alerts you when your back is too curved and urges you to correct it!

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Electronically Knitted Spam Poetry

Electronically Knitted Spam Poetry

Artist duo Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva like to bring digital culture and traditional crafting together. They’ve made a neat new work called “SPAMpoetry,” in which they used a hacked knitting machine to knit a series of poems made up of content from spam emails. SPAMpoetry is a series of knitted works containing visual poetry […]

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Adafruit Ohm Sweet Ohm Cross-Stitch Kit

Adafruit Ohm Sweet Ohm Cross-Stitch Kit

Our friends over at Adafruit Industries have come up with a clever new kit that combines a resistor chart with a traditional embroidery sampler, not to mention a witty little pun. Not only is this kit fun to make (and good for beginner stitchers), when it’s all done it functions as a handy resistor reference […]

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Turning Stolen Joules Into Shining Jewels With Weekend Projects

Turning Stolen Joules Into Shining Jewels With Weekend Projects

Our latest Weekend Project is both fashionable and fun. Combine a solar battery with a “joule thief” and make a Solar Joule Bracelet!

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