The Auduino project turns Arduino into a PWM based sound synthesizer – Sound is generated by playing the same noise (‘grain’) repeatedly at very high speed. This merges into a tone that is an audible hybrid of the repetition rate and the original grain. The grain consists of two triangular waves of adjustable frequency, and […]
Hannah Perner-Wilson has a few new instructables up, my favorite of which is this one on making neoprene fabric buttons. She fuses conductive fabric on either side of a perforated membrane, making completely soft interface objects.
Automatic window shades, Anupam writes- It is nice to wake up from natural sunlight (instead of being jarred awake by a loud buzzer). While there are alarm clocks out there that do this with an artificial lamp, I thought it would be cooler and much cheaper to make my own. Also, instead using artificial light, […]
Adrian from Google has an overview of the latest SketchUp, he writes – We’re very excited to announce the new release of Google SketchUp 7. If you don’t already know about the fun you can have with SketchUp, here’s a quick recap: SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your […]
On today’s episode of Bre Petis’ I Make Things, my pal Nick Farr of HacDC demonstrates the Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rule (PASCSR) he made and uploaded to Thingiverse. Thingiverse launches today, too. It’s a site, created by Bre and Zach Hoeken, where you can share your digital designs/object files with the world. Cool. I […]
A while ago I converted a 1934 folding camera into a USB web cam. I brought it with me to Maker Faire Austin 2008 and a lot of people seemed to like it. In fact, a lot of people wanted to know how I made one. I promised them I would do a how-to on […]
I’m pretty predictable. I couldn’t wait 2-3 days to try the new batch of coffee I roasted yesterday. These are some photos of me making a shot of espresso. It was a bit overroasted, yet grassy at the same time! This points to my temperature being a bit high and my guess is the grassy […]
