Inspired by EMSL’s holiday cards, Grathio wrote up his steps for creating edge-lit displays for general usage covering an easy method for multi-image displays – Lets say we’re making an electronic Tic-Tac-Toe game. Ideally we want either an X or an O in the same place. To do this we make and X and an […]
Spin activated lights for your butterfly yo-yo. Thanks go to Eric Chu for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. To download The LED Yo-Yo video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete LED Yo-Yo article in MAKE Volume 22 and you can see it in our Digital Edition.
Spin activated lights for your butterfly yo-yo. Thanks go to Eric Chu for the original article in MAKE, Volume 22. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
Alessandro Lambardi of 5volt built this excellent MIDI Piano Instructor to help his son play piano.
With our Geek Chic theme in full swing this month, we just had to offer an excerpt from our favorite book on smart crafting, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan. This DIY Intro to Smart Crafting is precisely that: it offers everything you need to get started blending “traditional and unorthodox crafting techniques with new, intelligent […]
This weekend the MakeMobile was on the tarmac at the NASA Ames Research Center for Yuri’s Night, a massive global celebration of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space. 211 parties were held across the globe, and even the astronauts on the International Space Station had one! The Bay Area event featured two days of educational […]
Leonard Souza wanted to control a large LED panel using flash, so he cooked up a solution using a Java UDP client, which then relays the data over a serial port to an Arduino, which finally transmits the data over SPI to the Peggy.
