From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Warpcat posted these vibrant images of his Blinkybugs in action – venturing into the unknown wilds of the kitchen table. Kits these days, they grow up so fast. – Blinky Bugs on Flickr In the Maker Shed: Blinkybug Kit
This is a really easy project for anyone to tackle. All it takes is about an hour of your time and some patience. You can pick up your own DIY clock kit from the Maker Shed. The kit is available with red or blue LED’s. Lets jump right in. What you get: Everything you need […]
Go cuckoo for coconuts, munch on the ultimate brain food, turn day into night, and build your own greenhouse.
Hack-a-day’s new contributor Jason Rollette has a nice overview for the why-and-how on using lead free solder. I certainly learned a thing or two!
Windell has posted am Arduino basic-function library for EMS Labs’ Peggy 2.0 LED light-board kit. This brings Peggy 2.0 up to the level of having useful compatibility with the Arduino software environment: you can use high-level commands to control what shows up on the Peggy display. For example, the type of high-level command might be […]
I assembled my Noise Toy kit knowing that I wanted to put it in some kind of enclosure, so I made sure to break out all the switches with wires. I found an old tea tin in my father’s shop and he helped me mount the circuit inside. We used a piece of wood to […]
This is a great way to make a vacuum pump out of a bicycle pump, for less than $20. A vacuum pump can be used for a lot of projects, not just torturing marshmallow peeps. DIY: Manual vacuum pump Related: HOW TO – Build your own Vacuum pump
