From the MAKE Flickr pool Eric’s new LITE2SOUND kit sounds like a lot of fun. He reports on some early experimentation using the board’s photodiode sensor – pointing it at a computer CRT yields a strange humming tone that varies depending on what the screen is displaying. The LED in an optical computer mouse plays […]
Flickr member Segwaymonkey got the new Spikenzielabs’ SpikenzieLabs Drum Kit-Kit and was inspired to create a set of laser-cut pads for it. Sweet. I love the engineering of the vibration-dampening “springs.” The Drum Kit Kit Laser Cut Rig
Ask MAKE is a weekly column where we answer reader questions, like yours. Write them in to becky@makezine.com or drop us a line on Twitter. We can’t wait to tackle your conundrums! This week’s question comes to us via CRAFT contributor Rachel Hobson. Her friend Kari is mother to a “true maker in the making.” […]
Moleskine is running a competition to hack your notebook. Winner gets a lifetime supply of Moleskines. Carving a place in a notebook for your iPhone? Adding extra pockets? Adding extra ribbon markers? Mindmaps? Somebody’s been looking at The Maker’s Notebook hacks on Flickr! My Moleskine 2.0 Competition [Thanks, Daniel!]
Instructables user cr8ive1 writes: This is how I make steel doming punches to shape soft metals (gold, silver, copper, brass) for jewellery making. Doming (or dapping punches as they are often referred to by jewellery makers) punches are expensive for what they are- basically highly polished pieces of curved steel. I have a few commercially […]
On the HacDC mailing list, we’ve been having a discussion about Wolfram|Alpha and some of the amazing things it can do (and some of the controversy already surrounding it). Here ‘s the return on a query for resistor values. Wolfram|Alpha
Instructables user cr8ive1 writes: This is how I make steel doming punches to shape soft metals (gold, silver, copper, brass) for jewellery making. Doming (or dapping punches as they are often referred to by jewellery makers) punches are expensive for what they are- basically highly polished pieces of curved steel. I have a few commercially […]
