RSSArchives: August 2007
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August 24, 2007
August 2007 Space Shuttle photos
These are great, photos from Rob's uncle from NASA's Space Shuttle mission last week - Link.
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Aug 24, 2007 03:00 AM
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Handmade music night @ ETSY with MAKE and Create Digital Music was AWESOME
Wow! The Handmade music night @ ETSY with MAKE and Create Digital Music was AWESOME. Special thanks to everyone who attended, played and hacked around.
The best way to describe an event like this is: Homemade Theremin crutches.
Update: Write up from Peter - Link.
Here are a load of photos from MAKE! - Link & more from Create Digital Music - Link.
Related:
Create Digital Music - Link.
ETSY - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 24, 2007 02:00 AM
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Loud objects: Germany and New York
Loud objects will be @ Germany and New York, Tristan writes -
We've brought our microchips to Cologne, Germany for a crazy festival of "art and music with the overhead projector." There are projectors all over the place with twitching motors, liquids and anything else you can think of on them. Leah Wechsler and Chris McDonald are joining me as special guests for this Loud Objects extravaganza.We did a wall installation that's running through Saturday, we're performing on both Friday and Saturday, and we're teaching a workshop on Friday. The Saturday show is a group performance open to anyone who comes to the Friday workshop. If you know anyone in Cologne, please let them know!
NEW YORK:
August 25, 8PM - Glasslands Gallery, New York
- Lullatone
- Alias Pail
- Loud Objects
- Tristan Perich/1-Bit Music
- Burnkit2600
- TWI Solo
$5 - 289 Kent Avenue (between South 1st and South 2nd), Brooklyn, NYGERMANY:
Kunst Und Musik Mit Dem Tageslichtprojektor
- August 24, 5:30 PM - Loud Objects workshop
- August 24, 8:30 PM - Loud Objects show
- August 25, 7:30 PM - Loud Objects group performance
Free - Moltkerei Werkstatt , Moltkestr. 8 [Hinterhof], D 50674 Köln/Cologne
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 24, 2007 01:00 AM
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GPS logger, vibrating motors & PSP touch screen
BAM! New stuff @ Spark Fun...
GeoChron - Field-hardened GPS Logger - This is the latest brain child of the SparkFun dataloggers. The GeoChron is an enclosed, self contained, fully configurable, GPS logger. Insert an SD card, turn on the power switch and the unit will start logging - Link.
Vibration Motor - We think this is a great addition to the SparkFun line of 'what can I do with this?'. This little guy is a power-packed vibration motor. Brought in after a customer recommendation, this self-contained vibration motor can be used for a multitude of applications. Your imagination is the only limit - Link.
Color 24-Bit LCD 4.3" PSP Touch Screen. Give your PSP display a little lovin. This is a touch screen with an adhesive backing to mate with the 24-bit technicolor PSP LCD - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 24, 2007 12:00 AM
Electronics |
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August 23, 2007
Make a USB power/charger from a wall wart
A user on the Hacked Gadgets Forum posted this simple conversion of a common wall-wart into a USB power supply/device charger. He used the power adapter from an old Iomega drive and a few common components. I've seen several versions of these floating around. Easy to make. Nice to have around.
DIY Wall-Wart USB Power Supply - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Aug 23, 2007 08:00 PM
Cellphones, Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming, PSP, iPod |
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HOW TO - Build a laser effects show
YouTube user Starcross42 has been uploading a series of great vids on laser effects for shows and how he achieves them using commercial and homemade laser tech. He has seven "Build a Laser Effects Shows" on YouTube. Be sure to check all of his videos, which include some other laser-related and other cool science and technology pieces. Starcross42 is a high school physics teacher, the kind you wish you'd had.
Build a Laser Effects Show [via] Link
Related:
- Home Built Laser Projector -Link
- Graffiti Research Lab » L.A.S.E.R. Tag (and HOW TO)... - Link
- Jack-O-Laser of Doom - Link
- Green Laser! - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Aug 23, 2007 06:00 PM
Arts, DIY Projects, Electronics, Imaging |
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Stealth-ifying your wireless mouse receiver
Harry Andreou, a Dutch programmer, got tired of looking at the bloated receiver for his MS Laser Mouse 6000, so he recased it... in a thick magazine. Now that choice might be a little... different, but you can recase it in anything you like. Get creative. Liberate your tech from its drab little cases.
How to stealth your mouse RF receiver - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Aug 23, 2007 04:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Electronics, Gadgets |
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Personal health monitor demo
Reza Naima, a bioengineering student from University of California, San Diego, has uploaded a video of his thesis project to YouTube. Called the Pervasive Health Monitor, it's a Bluetooth-enabled, TI MSP430-based microcontroller board (1.4" x 1.8") designed to be worn on a person to monitor various vitals. Reza explains:
It's meant to be worn 24/7, and will record a wide variety of biometric data such as your ECG, EMG, GSR, body temperature, body noises, pulse oximetry. It's Bluetooth enabled and stores data on a tiny Transflash memory card.
More details on his website, including a schematic of the device.
Projects » HealthMonitor - [via] Link
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Aug 23, 2007 02:00 PM
Computers, Electronics, Science |
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Desk made with 434 discarded Itanium CPUs
Matt's chip desk! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 23, 2007 12:00 PM
DIY Projects |
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Cyclean - The pedal powered washing machine
This is awesome, the Cyclean - a pedal powered washing machine - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 23, 2007 08:00 AM
Bicycles, Green |
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Using an ADXL330 accelerometer with an AVR microcontroller
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes -
The last decade has seen more than an order of magnitude drop in the price of accelerometers, devices capable of measuring physical acceleration (often in more than one direction). History suggests that whenever a useful technology makes a precipitous drop in price, unexpected applications follow, and that's exactly what has happened in this case.Using an ADXL330 accelerometer with an AVR microcontroller - Link.Starting from zero and summing up acceleration, you can use an accelerometer to find velocity, and from that derive relative position information. By measuring the acceleration due to gravity, one can also determine orientation (technically, inclination)-- you can tell which way it's pointing. Those are pretty useful skills for a chip! And so as bulk prices for tiny chip-scale three-axis accelerometers have begun to approach $5, they have started to appear in all kinds of mass-market applications that you might not have predicted: laptop computers (for hard drive protection), smart phones and cameras (for orientation-- e.g., portrait vs. landscape on the iPhone), cameras for image stabilization, and quite visibly in the controllers for Nintendo's Wii system.
With all that promise, you might think that an accelerometer is a difficult beast to harness. That turns out not to be the case. In this little project we demystify the mighty accelerometer and show you how to get started playing with one. In the spirit of hobbyist electronics we do this the easy way-- without designing a PCB or even soldering any surface-mount components.
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Aug 23, 2007 07:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HOW TO - Getting started with Arduino
A SUPER article up on CRAFT from R.Stern! She writes -
I've compiled a brief tutorial on getting started with Arduino for the absolute beginner. I'll cover where to learn, what to buy, and where to go for help. Why should you crafters be interested in Arduino? The Arduino platform, more-so than any other way of incorporating electronics into your projects, is geared towards do-it-yourselfers. It's open source (both on a hardware and software level), so the community plays a large role in its development and improvement. Crafting is a community endeavor; individuals share tips, tricks, techniques, skills, and materials all the time. Arduino comes out of the same spirit. On a more practical level, you may just want to make your crafts more fun, interesting, and interactive by introducing some lights, motion, sound, or simple sensors. Stuffed toys can become glowing night-lights or cat-chasing robots, fibers can carry currents to make smart clothes, accessories, you name it. There's also an overlap in materials between crafting and circuit building that can lead to some non-traditional works in either category: threads, fabrics, paints, and glues with conductive properties introduce subtle ways to incorporate electronics in your crafting practice. Read on to start learning about Arduino! Add your Arduino tips and resources in the comments.HOW TO - Getting started with Arduino - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
R. Stern's HOW-TO on making plush irradiated steaks - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 23, 2007 05:00 AM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Handmade Music Night * Thursday, Aug 23* 8PM @ ETSY & MAKE **TONIGHT**
On Thursday, August 23 at 8PM ***TONIGHT*** Etsy Labs is teaming up with Make Magazine and Create Digital Music http://createdigitalmusic.com/ for another Handmade Music Night. Come check out the projects on display, meet other like-minded people, and listen to some handmade music!
At the last Handmade Music Night, there were instruments made from an iron, a Gameboy, wooden blocks, an amp made from a Ritz cracker box, and a weird goo/gel that made sounds when you squeezed it.
If you wanna come, please rsvp@etsy.com. If you wanna bring something, tell us about it in your rsvp email...
Thursday, August 23. 8PM. Etsy Labs. 325 Gold St. 6th Floor. Brooklyn. See you!
Handmade Music Night * Thursday, Aug 23* 8PM @ ETSY & MAKE - Link.
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Aug 23, 2007 04:00 AM
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Tea cup clock
Danny Seo of Simply Green made a fun tea cup clock - Link... as CRAFT commenter points out this isn't the first one, but likely cheaper to make! - Link.
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Aug 23, 2007 03:00 AM
Arts, Crafts |
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Embed a google map
View Larger Map...
You can now embed a Google map in a page, just like a video (Youtube, etc)... For all our Burner friends, have a great time next week, welcome home and here's a map from last year! - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 23, 2007 02:00 AM
GPS, Online |
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Better fuelin' with Mushrooms
Mushrooms might help make better biofuels -
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have found a much better way to make biodiesel. Their new method could lower the cost and increase the energy efficiency of fuel production.More @ Wired Science - [via] Link.Instead of mixing the ingredients and heating them for hours, the chemical engineers pass sunflower oil and methanol through a bed of pellets made from fungal spores. An enzyme produced by the fungus does the work -- making biodiesel with impressive efficiency.
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Aug 23, 2007 01:00 AM
Green, Science |
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Life-size skeleton pumpkin carving
Here's an ENTIRE skeleton carved from pumpkins, outstanding work and here's how to make your own! - Link.
DIY HALLOWEEN 2007 from the editors of MAKE and CRAFT brings you 40-plus DIY projects for the holiday that's made for makers. From the craftiest costumes to amazing animated props and the latest in computer-controlled haunted house effects, this special issue will include: headless Marie Antoinette costume, mechanical ghosts and ghouls, LED and laser jack-o'-lanterns, creature makeup and blood-spurting wounds, DIY coffins and tombstones, T. Rex rooftopper, flaming LED skulls, kid-tested haunted house tricks, and a special "Ghoulbox" section with Halloween kits, tools, and gadgets. Plus demonic decorations, hideous party snacks, and profiles of extraordinary makers and their creepy crafts - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 23, 2007 12:00 AM
DIY Projects, Halloween |
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August 22, 2007
Crazy dude covers car in used pens
Pens. Lots and lots of pens. The name of his curious creation? (Gird yourself): Mercedes Pens.
Mercedes Pens: The write way to pimp a car - Link
Related:
- Transportation Archives - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Aug 22, 2007 08:00 PM
Arts, Crafts, Green, Transportation |
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New MAKE/CRAFT authors - Becky Stern and Jenny Ryan
Over on CRAFT (and here at MAKE) we have a couple new faces, Becky (known as R.Stern here) and Jenny, so stop over and say hi - you'll see some posts and articles from them soon! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 22, 2007 07:00 PM
Announcements |
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Sprocket and innertube belt
Here's an Instructable for making a belt out of a bicycle innertube, bike chain and sprocket.
Sprocket & innertube belt - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Aug 22, 2007 06:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Green, Instructables |
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