HOW TO – Use an LCD with your electronic devices
Refik writes – “Here’s a DIY project that shows you how to connect a LCD display to your electronic device, in this case a microcontroller was used!” Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Hands On — Making a Mobile
Staying poised at the fertile edge of chaos, while the clock ticks.
Felted Bag
Great step by step project on Instructables on how to make a felted bag. There are great photos on the entire process. Mix it up with leftover yarn from past projects. Definitely a fun quick weekend project. Link.
Digital Video Production — Create Explosive Visuals
Real movie explosions are dangerous, expensive, and usually unecessary.
Maker — It Came From My Garage
Model kit makers bring B-movie monsters to your home.
Made On Earth — Spatial Education
George Sanger’s homemade Leslie speaker — which he first built out of a punctured paint can and record player — taps a polyethylene drainage device to get a sound he describes as “one of the most organic, spacious, and beautiful there is.”
Made On Earth — Sonic Fabric
Throughout history, music has played an important role in our social, political, and religious rituals. It’s been used to express the most elusive of emotions and situations: love and loss, conquest and oppression, joy and mourning. You name it, there’s a piece of music that will fit it. And now, the music can fit you: Alyce Santoro has created a series of products that allow you to wear your music and listen to your clothes.
