I ordered a minimum theremin kit from Harrison Instruments and all the parts were very well marked and it went together easily. You will have to make your own antenna and put it in your own enclosure and I liked that because it gave me a chance to make my theremin unique and special. – […]
The walkotron is a simple project that you can make to create your own musical instrument. Gather your walkmans, some switches, wire and a speaker and you’ve got a basic melloman made out of walkmans. If you’re feeling ambitious, download the code and fire up an arduino to make a sequencer! – PDF Link Note: […]
The first time I tried this, it didn’t work. It was frustrating, but I just went through my materials, blued the razor blade and it worked. The second time I tried to get it to work, I couldn’t get a station, I just got buzz. I played with everything and finally figured out that the […]
This is one of those projects that fell together perfectly. Recently I traveled around Europe with some friends on a tour of hacker spaces and one of the hacker spaces that we visited was Das Labor (http://das-labor.org). Two of the hackers there, Peter and Martin, have been making these amazing LED cubes that were 5x5x5 […]
You can get most everything you need for this project by checking out gfixler’s and burzvingion’s instructables posts, but in this weeks pdf, you can see how we made our jig, check out our trick for installing the magnets in the corner blocks, and learn Action Girls strategy to speedcubing! PDF Link
Breadboarding is a great way to get started in electronics. You don’t need to solder and you can put things in and take things out really easily. The 555 is a beautiful thing. Download this pdf, read it, and make this project and learn more about this cute little 8 legged bit of silicon! PDF […]
I’m sitting in C4’s presentation room watching Jens and Lars give an awesome presentation about the design patterns for developing a hacker spaces. Download it now if you’re interested in creative communities. – PDF Link C4 has been in their current space since 1999 and it’s version 3.5 for them. They’ve been through a lot […]
