Yudu Screen Printing Video Review
Handmade Detroit did this awesome video review of the Yudu screen printing machine. It has a hefty pricetag, but this video review has even me convinced that it it might be worth it. Via Core77.
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The Beginning Engineer’s Checklist
I like this “Beginning Engineer’s Checklist,” from the PIClist site. Here are the first six items on the list: 1. NEVER loan out your copies of: The Art of Electronics (Horowitz & Hill, Cambridge University Press) (you do HAVE a copy don’t you?) Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components or Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors […]
CRAFT Video: Machine-Knitted QR Code Scarf
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 […]
How-To: Sample sequencer w/ Meggy Jr. + Arduino WaveShield
From the MAKE Flickr pool Solipsistnation posted detailed info for the excellent MeggySeq project (we recently covered) – MeggySeq has 8 patterns of 16 steps each. You can set each of those steps to play one of 8 WAV files on the waveshield. You can play the pattern back, stop it playing, and change the […]
Office supply model making
So much time at your desk, so much raw material in the office supply room. What to do? Make monitor juju, decorate your geekosphere, construct marvelous models that’ll delight and confound your coworkers. Here are a few of our favorite projects we’ve run into over the years for turning office (and corner coffee shop) supplies […]
Snap-together Arduino control panels
I love all of the amazing boards, Shields, kits and other Arduino components and accessories that people dream up. Here’s a laser-cut control panel board/stand that Blushing Boy is giving away when you buy one of their Smapler-v0002 + ARDUINO Diecimila Kit (for ten buyers). Snap-on Design for Arduino boards
Make: Online Toolbox: Jigs, clamps, and helping hands
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to 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 […]