In this week’s video, I’ll show you how to turn a 2D barcode into a knitted scarf! This is a fun way to get information from a garment into an electronic device, such as a cell phone equipped with a barcode-scanning camera. Anyone who takes a picture of my scarf can decode the message. I […]
Merit badges are a long-standing tradition, so I’m glad to see Adafruit Industries keeping up with the times: “Learning electronics” merit badges from Adafruit Industries – In a week or so we will be including “learning electronics” merit badges in some of our kits & tool packs at Adafruit Industries. The first one is “learning […]
Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, has a conductive thread overview to help you decide which thread to use for your tech crafts. Syuzi writes: I get a lot of questions regarding which conductive thread I prefer or use. Unfortunately there is no ONE ideal thread — it really depends on what you are trying […]
Via BBG, these aren’t the first soft synthesizers we’ve seen, but they’re certainly some of the most attractive plush synths around. They’re by Pulsewidth, an artist out of Brisbane, Australia. They’re also for sale.
Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: Klein bottles are an entertaining mathematical idea–a shape with no volume. A Klein bottle is basically a tube where the inside is connected to the outside. Making a Klein bottle in our 3D world requires a bit of cheating to work, by adding a hole in one of […]
Got an iPod or laptop that needs a portable sound system to go with it? One of CRAFT Volume 07‘s awesome offerings is Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Speakers project. Using this clearly photographed and laid out step-by-step, you can make your own pair of low-fi travel speakers. Here’s an image of what you’ll need: […]
Gareth @ MAKE writes: I love this quirky idea of using old removable memory cards as covers to little books of photos. Talk about computer-age folk art.
