How To: Building A Light Table Under $80
A light table can be a very nice for designers and illustrators. Here’s how to make one under $80!
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IcosaLEDron: 20-Sided LED Ball
Bored with playing games with a non-glowing ball? Why not build your own IcosaLEDron, a programmable, LED-enabled glowing contraption about the size of a baseball. This ball, as seen on Instructables, features 20 sides that light up as different colors depending on the situation. An ATmega328p board, which is Arduino-compatible, provides the brains for this […]
S&T Geotronics at the Atlanta Maker Faire
There were many amazing things at the Faire this year, but the wide assortment of hackish items at the S&T Geotronics booth really caught my attention. The first thing that drew me in to the booth was the replica of a “stereotypical” bomb with a timer attached to it. Although I doubt many modern bombs […]
The Arduweenie
This is the tell-all guide to #Arduweenie, a bewitching maker project brought to you by Tenaya Hurst of Rogue Making and dog hunter LLC. My project is a wire frame in the shape of a dachshund dog wrapped with a 5 meter long RGB LED strip which I program. That’s all he is, and yet, […]
What Everyone Needs: An Eight-Foot LED Light Staff
Hackaday.io blogger ‘Risknc’ updates his Light Staff prototype, much to the excitement of the LARPing community. It is a 8-foot staff filled with High Intensity LEDs that put on quite a show.
A Custom Bicycle Dashboard
If you’re not satisfied with the lightweight digital speedometer that you can buy at your local bike shop, why not build your own bicycle dashboard using various electrical components and wood? DJ decided to do just that, and gives instructions with an electrical schematic, parts list, and Arduino sketch, in this Instructables post. Besides the […]
Weaving Circuits on a Loom
Working with non-conductive fishing line, fiber artist Geri Forkner actually wove LED circuits into this flashy bracelet that she made at The Appalachian Center for Craft.
