From the MAKE Flickr photo pool It appears the journey of the Maker’s Quilt has just begun with this single step – Dgiancaspro has created the first piece for his ongoing collaborative project – The traditional quilt is made of many embroidered squares contributed by different family members. Some squares commemorate special events in the […]
Here’s one you don’t see everyday – instructions for making your own giant-sized polygonally modelled Mahatma Gandhi – After walking with Gandhi in Second Life for 240 miles I decided it would be interesting to extract my avatar from this online world and recreate him in monumental scale. This instructable takes you through the process […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member Kc7fys built this fine little voltage meter to indicate battery level using a bi-color LED and an LM358 op-amp chip – I could measure the resistance values and just use regular resistors to make it smaller. It tells me when my radio power supply (battery pack) is […]
We at Maker Media are thrilled to announce that we’re going to be doing a Best of Instructables, Volume 1. As part of the book, we want to get the Instructables community involved in choosing some of their favorite projects. The book will include both projects chosen by Maker Media and Instructables staffs and those […]
This homebrew Boarduino POV device is even more low-tech than some similar ones we have posted about on this blog before. Check out the simple construction details at the link below. Arduino POV Prototype
This attenuator box can be built in about as long as it takes to read this post. I count 5 parts, and that includes the case. What’s an attenuator box? Read on. Most valve amps need to be run loud to get a good tone out of them, which often makes it difficult when performing […]
Micah made this really amazing laser scanner from a few scavenged hard drives and a Parallax Propeller chip. The initial results are amazing considering how fast the actuators have to be to crate an image. My latest tinkery hardware and embedded systems project is a homebrew laser scanner. You know, the kind you see at […]
