Make an Iron-on Textile Circuit and Learn All About Wearables
It’s 15 years since LilyPad — learn what’s new and make your first iron-on circuit!
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Solar Power on the Move
It’s fun to use mini solar cells to charge your gear or power small gadgets, and once you’ve learned the basics you can scale up to bigger panels. Let’s explore ways you can harness solar energy for your own DIY projects — mobile, wearable, or otherwise — and say goodbye to (some) batteries and plugging things […]
Put A Little Earth On Your Desktop With Raspberry Pi and A Round Display
Some people keep digital picture frames on their desk that display images of their loved ones and special occasions. Sometimes they show fancy locations that they’ve visited. Matt Gray’s digital picture frame shows everyone and everywhere on earth. This little project that uses a Raspberry Pi W and a circular display is fairly simple in […]
Passing Time: A Clock Made from Beer Bottles
Rick Stanley makes very special clocks. He makes clocks out of beer bottles (over 300 Yuengling beer bottles to be exact), clocks with bicycle bells, clocks featuring coins, dominoes, and fluids. He makes novelty clocks of great complexity alongside his son Vince Stanley in Millville, PA at Stanley Clockworks which they founded in 2006. Rick […]
Raspberry Pi Announces New Camera Module
Raspberry Pi announced today that there is a new vision system available for their eco system: The Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3. The new hardware has four variants: All four have a 12 megapixel 7.9mm (diagonal) Sony IMX708 sensor with autofocus and high dynamic range support. Unlike previous modules that had the c/cs mount available, […]
To the Stars: Making A Stained Glass Space Shuttle
Space. For most, it is the final frontier. For others, it remains a distant galaxy far, far away. But for some, like the creative team of Nicole and Thure of When Geeks Craft, it is a destination already reached. Their stained-glass, fully-lit replica of the space shuttle Discovery demonstrates a passion for making that’s truly otherworldly. The two […]
Surreal Sculptures Branching Through The Natural and Modern World
Henrique Oliveira never knows exactly how his sprawling sculptures will take shape, which is, perhaps, a contributing factor to their organic look and feel, bridging the natural world with the modern, resulting in the surreal exhibitions and installations he’s been creating around the world for over a decade. “It was not something planned, like had an […]
