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Simple and satisfying craft technique from Photojojo: Take pictures of your favorite object, print them at 1:1 scale on inkjet canvas, and sew the pictures together to make a hollow cloth version that looks like the real thing. Use it as a pouch or a slipcover that advertises what it contains or, alternately, conceals it. [via CRAFT]
The Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) turns bits into waves using a surprisingly simple circuit built from little more than a few resistors. Learn how to build your own R-2R DAC and use it to generate waveforms with a microcontroller
The clever copy some bright marketeer wrote for SparkFun’s Heaterizer XL-3000 is turning into a pretty awesome viral advertisement for the product, and for SparkFun itself. [via Boing Boing]
Being made of glass, however, a proper Kipp generator is an expensive piece of apparatus, with new models costing upwards of $250US as of this writing. However, as the useful gas-generating reactions are usually aqueous, rather than organic, an all-plastic Kipp generator is almost as useful as a glass version. PVC pipe is inexpensive, durable, ubiquitous, and easily and securely joined using cement made for that purpose. Demountable PVC fittings are available in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and can be used to provide the necessary “dismantlability” for loading solid reagent into the device. Presented here is my design for such a low cost Kipp-type generator, with instructions for its construction.
Matt Richardson shows how you can use an old MP3 player to convert a cigar box into an electronic music box. This project makes a wonderful, customized gift for someone you love.
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary plug-and-play LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind 10.1-inch display offers two modes, an easy-to-read multimedia color mode, or a crisp low power e-reader mode.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
The title of this image by Sisyu Inu is ARDUINO stitch by hand. I’m impressed, but slightly dubious.
The first good pull from Mike Pantrey’s new Formech 300X vacuum former.
The first good pull from Mike Pantrey’s new Formech 300X vacuum former.
Matthew Buckley’s lovely truncated icosahedran Soccer Ball tape sculpture.
Matthew Buckley’s lovely truncated icosahedran Soccer Ball tape sculpture.
Early pactuator prototype from Jonathan Guberman’s mechanical Pac Man.
Early pactuator prototype from Jonathan Guberman’s mechanical Pac Man.
Becky, Matt, and Limor prepping for Make: Live Episode 02.
Becky, Matt, and Limor prepping for Make: Live Episode 02.
