I’m a rebel. I’ve always tried to avoid picking up habits from my parents. What can I say? I’m just anti-authority and I love to teach myself. So despite almost 30 years of fighting it, I have finally realized you can’t always deny the effect your dad has on you. And for that, I consider […]
Randy shares steps for adding two key upgrades to the Mini-Theremin kit – True, there are already directions to do both of these things in the accompanying magazine, but what sets this how-to apart is that it is in English. If like me you can’t read Japanese and unlike me, you couldn’t figure out what […]
From 1976 to 1983, Popular Science magazine, along with the American Plywood Association, ran an annual plywood panel project design contest for its readership. Often the winning projects were items of furniture, but that was not a requirement. A potter’s kick wheel and a folding plywood boat are notable exceptions. The rules were simple: Apart […]
[Editor’s Note: There used to be a post here about some Escher-esque molds for creating tessellating gecko-patterned paving stones out of concrete. The creator of the molds got all 20th century (19th century?) on us and demanded that we take down the post (something about needing to negotiate a contract and cut a deal before […]
I was thrilled to get handed a new EMS Labs’ business card/target board by Windell at Maker Faire. I have their original ATmegaXX8 card displayed on my desk and it gets comments from nearly everyone who sees it. I haven’t used it in a project yet, but I’m dyin’ to (I’m dying to have the […]
Ray Wilson of MusicFromOuterSpace gives a very in-depth review of the new Sound Lab Ultimate‘s features (skip to the 7min mark for sound samples). The Ultimate is an expanded sequel to the popular Sound Lab analog synth project, which adds a bunch of new features and makes the project fully patchable – Three Musically Accurate […]
I love these tiny toolboxes (as Father’s Day gifts), made from Altoids tins, that Natalie posted next door on CRAFT. If the mint tin seems a little… er… impractical for holding tools, there’s also a project on the same page for having kids color artwork for lids on mint tins to hold nuts, bolts, screws, […]
