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LED Tank Top

Use conductive thread to make a wearable LED display.

This guide will teach you how to awesomely decorate an ordinary guitar strap! For more inspiration check out http://www.ez-el.com/tutorials The EZ-EL Wire Kit you will need for this project can be purchased here. Enter coupon code MAKEguitar at checkout for a discount!

Pinhole Panoramic Camera

I bought a new scanner recently, and soon found myself spelunking through drawers of old photos from my many misspent years in photography. Some of the most interesting shots were the pinhole camera experiments I had done as a teenager. With ghostly outlines from multi-minute exposures, and shapes warped into boomerangs by curved film, these […]

HeadphoneHat

Winter is finally here in Massachusetts. While digging in the ‘Hats’ plastic tub today, I happened upon a flappy hat from last year. SantaMaker recently brought me some cheap headphones, and a few amplified speakers too (but those are for another project). Tonight turned out to be the time to merge the two into a […]

iPhone Gloves

It can be frustrating to have to take off your gloves to use your touch-screen phone. Capacitive touch screens sense how conductive your fingers are, and gloves are, well, insulators.