Instructables is having another “Get the LED Out” contest, this time sponsored by Monkeylectric: LEDs are some of the best things ever. They provide colorful light, barely use any power, and are easy to learn how to use. We love them and would love to see what cool projects you can make using them. So […]
Stanley Lunetta’s CMOS-based instrument designs have earned a strong following among the synth-diy crowd – and for good reason. The circuits can be relatively simple and the resulting sounds quite interesting. Bchris1776 shares details about his above-seen super-patchable unit – This Lunetta is built primarily from 4000 series CMOS integrated circuits with inputs and outputs […]
Randy over at Instructables made this handy and simple laptop stand by bending some acrylic. He cut the attractive and heat-dissipating holes with a laser cutter, which you could do by sending it off to Ponoko, or cut them out by hand with a hole saw or Forstner bit. This simple project gives me lots […]
Here’s a very attractive bowl made from scrap wood! My scrap wood doesn’t look anywhere near that attractive, but yours might. Via Core77.
Youtuber longjie0723 made his Roomba into Pacman with 448 yellow LEDs. Looks great! Via BBG.
One of our readers sent us a link to this commercial product, the Kitty Cot, a cat window perch, and writes: Window + suction cups + cloth + PVC = So MAKE-able. Kitty Cot: World’s Best Cat Perch
Gijs writes: This sequencer scans images, and plays the image as midi notes. It uses LDRs to measure the gray-scale of specific point of a image, and triggers midi notes from a selected threshold. When the threshold is reached the velocity will be set by the darkness at that point. the darker point the higher […]
