O’Reilly’s FYI Blog contest to give away a Maker’s Notebook is over. 22 people posted ideas of what they’d do with their book or to improve their book. Several of the ideas for improvements are already included: 1. Several people mentioned rulers. The Maker’s Notebook has inches and metric rulers on the book’s end papers. […]
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/arts_culture/Crest_Hardware_Art_Show’; Every year the Crest Hardware store in Williamsburg Brooklyn hosts a collection of work from local artists. The entertaining and often humorous art is displayed along side a familiar selection of tools and supplies. Store manager Joseph Franquinha explains – My father, Manny, has always impressed upon me the importance of […]
When hanging drywall, it can be tough to get the holes for the outlets in the perfect spot. Danny Lipford’s home improvement site has a tutorial up for using lipstick to transfer a location marking right from the outlet box to the back of the drywall for perfect positioning every time. I knew there had […]
I spent some time with Amy & Ariel from Sparkle Labs, makers of the DIY electronics kit we have in our Maker Shed Store, check it out! Here’s the M4V for iTunes, iPods, iPhones, etc… DIY Design Electronics Kit – Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys, and contraptions with these fundamental components. […]
I had a chance to tinker around with the new kit available from Adafruit Industries the YBox2 Kit – DIY Set-top box – very fun, you can make your own stand alone Twitter viewer, weather widgets and more – and of course, fits inside an Altoids tin. The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. […]
Paul Julius Martus designed this “hand” wrench and cast it out of bronze. Creepy and lovely! Via Core77.
I turned an Arduino Protoshield into a digital-to-analog converter with only a few extra parts. It’s proved a lot of fun for audio experimentation and a great way to learn about what DACs do and how they do it. What’s DAC? Digital to analog converters, or DACs, are used to create varying voltage levels from […]
