By Syuzi Pakhchyan Keep the chill away by making gear that will keep your ears warm and protected from the harsh winter wind. The Rock Star Headphones require you to hack into an existing set of headphones and incorporate it into a new design. The Rock Star will also have two square LEDs sewn onto […]
Here’s a cool project by Junichi Akita: it’s a modular LED display that you can draw on using a laser, then clear by tilting sideways.
South-African-born artist Daniel Hirschmann’s matrix consists of LEDs mounted on motorized shafts that move and change colors either as programmed or through interaction with a person. Glowbits is a matrix of motorized pixels that physically move as their colors change. The result is an image with real depth and dimensionality. When Glowbits surfaces display images, […]
Our sister site MAKE has a Geek Chic theme in full swing this month. In the spirit of Geek Chic, 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 […]
Ride safely at night with this easy to make Mini Bike Light. Thanks go to Trevor Shannon for the original article in MAKE, Volume 14. To download The Mini Bike Light video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mini Bike Light article in MAKE, Volume 14 and you can see that […]
Bluerain is a zillion blue LED installation based on a desktop computer running a QT app, a Make Controller (of course) and 98 x 16 LED cluster water-proof wall units running awesome TI LED PWM chips (TLC5941). Total number of LED: 23520. Total power: 50W. Levels of brightness: 4096. LED Colors: 1. BLUE. In its […]
