Flatulance-twittering chair
Randy Sarafan made a chair that tweets his toots. Uses all the staples: Arduino, XBee, Python, Twitter. And it’s open source, check the Instructable!
DIY Projects
Cosmic ray detection with fluorescent tubes
Robert Hart is developing his own cosmic ray detector using familiar fluorescent tubes and a high voltage(~650V DC) power supply. The design is a variation on an example from CERN researcher Sascha Schmeling’s DIY Spark Chamber – Like the CERN example above, when a muon flys through the fluorescent tube, the gas inside ionizes due […]
A nice little local dragon
Photo from The Boston Globe A few years ago a dragon turned up down the street. Chuck Nudd had spent some winter months concocting a behemoth animatronic dragon from some cast off steel junk. It started out as a dinosaur, but morphed into a dragon as the design came out. Draco is both wildly popular […]
Palletized wall o’ death
There is a great time sequence of the build, testing failure and success of this fundangerous project. Got a couple hundred pallets, a reasonably flat space and some time on your hands? via Damon
CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino Bike Patch
In this intermediate soft circuit tutorial, I show you how to make a light-up patch that can be used on your backpack for fun and bike safety. If you missed my LilyPad Arduino 101, you may want to watch that first. The theme of this year’s Maker Faire is “Re-Make America” so I thought I’d […]
Circuit face bending
Here’s a new twist on art, electricity, biology and music from Tokyo based dj Daito Manabe. His site is in Japanese and English, which helps a bunch. Redefining the existent media and technologies from unique angles, I have been active in the various fields, such as art, design, and even research and development. I produce […]
DIY wireless flash trigger
Matt Mets points us to this DIY wireless flash trigger project. Very cool photography hardware, and you can make it yourself! Specs: • Synchs at up to 1/250th of a second • Approximately 30-meter range • Triggers through walls and windows • 4 groups of adjustable flashes • Remote power level adjustment for “old” flashes […]