HOW TO – LED throwies with on/off tabs
MAKE pal Everythingdigital.org writes “Here’s a step-by-step guide on making your own magnetic LED throwies that can be tossed and stick to anything magnetic. Based on an Instructables tutorial.” Link.
DIY Projects
$10 Integrated headphone ski cap…
DIY happy has a fun how-to on making a ski cap with headphones in it. Sam writes “Burton sells a really cool cap with integrated headphones for listening to music while participating in winter sports. These hats are well made, but they cost around $40. That’s why Digital Cameron and I set out to make […]
Low-Cost sensing and communication using bidirectional LEDs
Now _this_ is a really cool project – using a LED display bidirectionally to optically detect finger touches! [via] Link & extremely cool video here. Related – LEDs as sensors blog.
HOW TO – Build a PVC instrument
Nathan has a really cool Blue Man group-like PVC instrument you can play with your hands or a mallet [via] Link & build photos. Check out more PVC projects here.
Kodak camera mods
Camera hacker has a couple new projects for Kodak series 3 & C cameras – the first, add LED lights to your Kodak printer dock. Screw driver and soldering iron required Link. The second is a quick hack – you’ll never have to buy proprietary batteries for your Kodak C330 digital camera again. Use regular […]
Circuit bent Pikachu
Get LoFi has an awesome video of a circuit bent Pikachu toy – complete with touch contacts and pitch knob Link. They also have a video from the Bend2005+-festival of some Makers playing some sort of PVC system with wonderful noises coming out it. If you want to learn how to make your own circuit […]
$10 Kraft dance pad hacking
Remember all the Kraft dance pad posts we kicked off? The hacking has begun! – “Here’s how to change the button mapping so that the Kraft dance pad will work with other dance pad games such as [the open source, free] Stepmania.” Link.
