The folks over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs outfitted a Peggy 2 with 2×2 super-pixels consisting of red, green, blue, and white 10mm LEDs. The result is a super low-res, but still extremely cool, programmable LED matrix. Windell also shows how you can put a diffusing plastic over the display to create a continuous-tone animated […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Inspired by the beehive locator we recently covered here, Gabriel decided to build a bee box of his own. He even enhanced the design a bit with magnetic door latches. No mention of the device’s success in the field as of yet but it looks quite able. More: Bee boxes […]
I love this Hello Kitty bubblegum tin housing a Minty Boost. There’s even extra space to carry two additional AA batteries, for even more boost. And notice the Maker’s Notebook as the backdrop. The builder named it the Minou Boost, after her cat. Minou boost
The folks at iFixit are still looking for repair tech volunteers to help out at their “Fix the World!” repair area at Maker Faire. Specifically, they need volunteers who enjoy tinkering with: cars electronics Macs bicycles appliances If you are a subject-matter expert and would enjoy spending a weekend helping others solve their tech problems, […]
Over at NerdKits, Humberto shows how to build a piezoelectric-based sound meter fed to an LED display, using their USB NerdKit. By using the piezoelectric buzzer that comes in the kit as a microphone, and adding a transistor and a few other components, you can create a sound meter and send its output to an […]
In this video, Limor shows off her build of the Turbulence microcontroller-based demo. She accomplished this by going retro (hey, it’s demoscene, man), adding VGA and stereo audio output to her Parallax Propeller-based Ybox2 kit (which has NTSC out). To add VGA/stereo out, she created a mini-shield plug-in for the YBox. Pretty nifty! And as […]
[Photo from Park Tools] Mike writes in the comments: It’s good to learn how to maintain anything that you use and bicycles are one of those few things that people own that you can still do this with only $100 worth of tools. One of the best websites I’ve found for bicycle maintenance is on […]
