Adafruit Industries has a new kit called Drawdio, it’s makes music as you draw. It reminds a little bit of Bill Cosby’s picture pages! You can get the kit here… Limor writes– Originally designed by J Silver, when I first saw the Drawdio at Maker Faire I knew it would be a great project for […]
Quick and easy how-to on setting up remote bittorrenting at the Wired How-To Wiki… For the full-fledged BitTorrent geek, remote control means setting up BitTorrent on a home server that runs continuously in the background. Even if you don’t want to delve into home server setups, remote control tools have other uses. Say you’re at […]
Ladyada writes– If only all cats could make money for their owners! ;) You may remember “Mr Lee†the cat who was outfitted with a matchbook-camera that would allow the owner to ’see what the cat saw’. It was quite a popular website a few months ago, and it seems that a business opportunity presented […]
A classic halloween prop/gag – the Living Severed Hand creates its simple yet freaky illusion using – an actual living human hand (non-severed) Of course, it isn’t really severed, it’s just an illusion! What you are going to make is a special glove that will make it look like you are holding a living, moving, […]
If you’re familiar with the audio spotlight, then you now how very awesome narrow beam ultrasonic speaker devices can be. They can project a sound efficiently over long distances without spreading like common speakers. One can essentially walk into the ultrasonic line-of-fire and begin to hear sound abruptly – certainly an interesting effect. Though not […]
This Arduino powered POV can sense when you are waving it in the air. It even switches the way it flashes the LEDs based of which direction you are waving. Check out the website for more information, including the code. I needed some way to make a MiniPOV detect when I waved it in the […]
Dan Glover of GO-Tech writes: The October GO-Tech meeting (Ann Arbor, MI) is Tuesday, October 14, 8 pm, at Great Oak Cohousing (see below). This will be our 15th meeting! We’ll have a demo of FIRST pneumatics, along with the usual eclectic mix of projects. Bring something cool to show off, especially if it fits […]
