DIY Gadgets with BugLabs (video)
Rocketboom visits BugLabs – great video!
DIY Projects
Kickbee : Twitter from the womb
Corey Menscher’s “Kickee” – when the baby kicks it sends a message to Twitter. You can see the baby’s kicky tweets on Twitter here… The maker writes- As a baby grows inside the womb, pregnant mothers are constantly and acutely aware of its presence mostly through its movements. With the Kickbee, I intend to extend […]
HOW TO – Soft coincell battery holder
Instructables user craft_tech made a tutorial for whipping up your own soft coincell battery holder from felt and conductive fabric.
HOW TO – City storyteller’s backpack
Instructables user faizzohri writes: A City Storyteller may need a unique backpack in her pursuit to collect and tell stories about her city. This backpack have 3 possible functions: 1) To provide storage during gathering of stories. 2) To provide a storage for the props to be used during a performance. It can be a […]
World’s first Nixie POV clock?
Combining two longtime favorite projects here at MAKE, Peter Csaszar’s Nixie Tube Propellor Clock displays high voltage time with persistence of vision – The nixie tube, as well as the entire clock electronics driving it, is placed on the Spinning Board – the circuit board mounted on the floppy drive’s carousel. The heart of the […]
The Hemp-Mote
DHRECK sent in his interesting mod of the Wii-Mote. It uses several different kinds of hemp fibers to cover the original plastic case. I assume by the popularity of this project that more hemp-covered objects are in the works. [Thanks DHRECK] In stark contrast with the original Wii-mote set, what was once sleek, cold, white […]
DIY vocal monitor
If you’ve performed kive with a band, you likely know how important monitor speakers are. Without a vocal monitor, things can go awry quite quickly – and to make matters worse, many small venues don’t have them. To keep tabs on sonic output, Mark took matters into his own hands and built this “Wedgehorn” monitor […]