Absurd iPhone Accessories on Thingiverse
Makerbot and Thingiverse just cosponsored a contest to design the most absurd 3D printable iPhone accessory! Check out a few of our favorite entries!
Technology
Antique Music Box Gets Electronic Upgrade
“Digital Enhancement” is an interactive sound installation consisting of an electrified Symphonion Brevet No. 28, a synthesizer, an amplifier and four headphones. The Symphonion musical box dates back to the beginning of the last century and its mechanical workings are combined with digital technology to convert it into a MIDI sequencer.
Illuminated Boat Responds when Tilted
ITP student Tak Cheung casted this boat hull from fiberglass and epoxy resin and embedded a tilt responsive LED matrix within it.
In the Maker Shed: Netduino Plus
Are you familiar with .NET programming and want to get into microcontrollers? Have a look at the Netduino Plus available in the Maker Shed.
3D-Printed Circuit Boards
An interesting idea for printing a circuit board by Thingiverse user CarryTheWhat. The goal of this project is to enable the personal manufacturing of simple electronics, especially for Open Source Hardware — with nothing except a 3D printer, your hands or equivalent, and the basic high-technology electronic components (capacitors, motors, transistors, etc — but note […]
Augmented Reality Heads-up Baseball Cap
If you’re looking for a cheap and easy way to get that Terminator-like augmented reality experience, you’ll want to check out this hacked up HMD baseball cap from Melbourne area maker Matt Kwan.
Bluetooth 4.0 from Arduino to iPhone: No Jailbreaking, No MFi?
We’ve long been able to get Arduino and Android to talk to each other over Bluetooth (for example, see the Android Controlled 3D Printed Slalombot), but doing that with an iOS device has required you to be enrolled in Apple’s MFi program or you to jailbreak your device. That seems to have changed with the […]