In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, […]
MAKE subscriber Gregg Horton used a Thingamakit along with a hacked karaoke machine to create a rather large area of theremin-esque sound control. Cool – at around 2m30s in it does start working quite nicely! Check out more of Greg’s projects on the Groovy Pancakes blog. In the Maker Shed: Thing-a-ma KIT
Dustin Zuckerman’s tool library.
From the MAKE Flickr pool JoeLMutantE lives up to his name with this monster sound & light machine born from two Thingamakit boards and a whole lotta wiring – This is a little MutanT based on the Thingamakit noise-synth. It has trhee diferent led-acles (led tentacles) and a pair of sense-acles (photo-sensor tentacles) that react […]
The folks over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs outfitted a Peggy 2 with 2×2 super-pixels consisting of red, green, blue, and white 10mm LEDs. The result is a super low-res, but still extremely cool, programmable LED matrix. Windell also shows how you can put a diffusing plastic over the display to create a continuous-tone animated […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Inspired by the beehive locator we recently covered here, Gabriel decided to build a bee box of his own. He even enhanced the design a bit with magnetic door latches. No mention of the device’s success in the field as of yet but it looks quite able. More: Bee boxes […]
I love this Hello Kitty bubblegum tin housing a Minty Boost. There’s even extra space to carry two additional AA batteries, for even more boost. And notice the Maker’s Notebook as the backdrop. The builder named it the Minou Boost, after her cat. Minou boost
