How-To: Light-up costume
Sarah James at Instructables has made this awesome light-up EL wire costume, and shares the process with us in her excellent tutorial.
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How-To: Make a “stroke sensor”
Instructables user Plusea brings us this cool tutorial on how to make a soft sensor that closes a circuit when it is petted or stroked.
Hanging Scarf Cluster Storage
We all love making scarves, right? Luminesia came up with a great way to store them all, easily, and with “minimized fuzzy wrinkling”.
How-To: Structured light 3D scanning
Wow, an incredible Instructable fromKyle McDonald: The same technique used for Thom’s face in the Radiohead “House of Cards” video. I’ll walk you through setting up your projector and camera, and capturing images that can be decoded into a 3D point cloud using a Processing application. Most 3D scanning is based on triangulation (the exception […]
Tesla tornado xmas tree
Instructables user mrfixits writes: This Tesla Tornado is made using a Subaru blower fan motor, complete with its 3-position speed switch mounted on the base. The blower motor has a flywheel fabricated out of Lexan with 6 neodymium magnets mounted in it. It magnetically couples with 6 magnets in the Tesla Pump disc pack, which […]
How-To: Bass drum microphone shock mount
Instructables user brainparts built this acoustically-isolated microphone mounting ring for his kick drum using bungee cords and a short slice of 6″ aluminum pipe, all for about $20. He says if he were to do it again, he’d just use PVC pipe for the ring.
LED Wine Charms Instructable
Eventually somebody looses track of what glass their drinking out of at almost every dinner party I attend. That’s what those little wine charms are for. I really dig this LED wine charm instructable from billr. They’re geeky, festive, and yet another excuse to add an LED to something that would otherwise forgo illumination.
