Thanks to Morskoiboy’s creation, you can now touch type your own Tom and Jerry. This syringe-based keyboard pumps various colored potables through 136 tubes totaling 30 meters of length. But before being poured into the glass, the liquid is pushed through the appropriate parts of a 14 segment display, indicating the letter you pressed. According […]
After a quick search of the posts I’ve written for MAKE, it’s clear that I overuse the word “awesome.” It’s not news to me, but I had no idea how bad my problem was. In fact, I think you could say that I abuse the word. In order to cut down on my usage of […]
Collin does a little hacking to get his USB-based MIDI keyboard to talk to his Arduino.
Gosh, I love the resourcefulness of our readers. MAKE subscriber Matt Daughtrey writes: My left arm has been recently sidelined by surgery. I’m a developer and wanted to keep my productivity as high as possible during my recuperation, so here’s an approach to one-handed touch typing that others might find useful. With a little Sugru, […]
If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone and want to use a bluetooth keyboard with it you can now download BTstack Keyboard in the Cydia Store.
Each year, students in Cornell’s ECE 5760 class are tasked to build something with an FPGA, and they always produce some cool projects.
MAKE subscriber thom writes in to tell us about Marc Fischer’s ambitious project to do something creative every day, for a year, and document it. One of his latest projects is a DIY MIDI footpedal, made from a pocket-sized MIDI keyboard and some blocks of wood.
