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February 14, 2008
LED mates
Here's my eleventh hour Valentine's Day find: These LED people blink in each other's arms. Project schematic included - Link.
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Feb 14, 2008 09:30 PM
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Happy *BLEEP* Valentines!
From the MAKE Flickr pool
Dr. Bleep sends out heart-day greetings with this romantic shot of a Thingamagoop getting snuggly with a Casio SK-1. -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 14, 2008 05:00 AM
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February 13, 2008
Heart of Hearts
From the MAKE Flickr pool
Member Oskay, not content with defacing his candy hearts, has resorted to melting them into a distorted, oozing mass of Valentine's Day cheer. Click the link for his full how-to. -Link
Related:
How to stamp your own Valentine's Candy -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 13, 2008 01:45 PM
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DIY Valentine's day projects
We've rounded up some great techy and DIY projects you can make for Valentine's day - My favorite food one is the bleeding heart cupcake... Don't forget you can give MAKE and/or CRAFT and print out the card we included if you're looking to do something last minute - More after the jump!
"Peggy" A light emitting pegboard kit - Link.
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Feb 13, 2008 01:30 PM
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HOW TO - Stamp your own Valentine's candy
The Evil Mad Scientist strikes again with another fun and simple how-to. This time adressing the official candy of the impending holiday -
Last year as Valentine's day approached we suggested writing new messages on your conversation hearts and loading up your trebuchet. We still advocate catapults for Valentine candy distribution and disposal, but we've upgraded the presentation a bit. With a rubber stamp kit and a food-safe pen, you can stamp your messages so they look nearly authentic, but have much more appropriate messages.Check the EMS blog for characteristically clear photo-illustration. -Link
Related:
Scientist Valentine's day cards -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 13, 2008 05:30 AM
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February 12, 2008
Scientist Valentine's day cards
David Friedman of Ironic San made these scientist Valentine's day cards, they're AWESOME! - [via] Link.
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A Valentine for your Maker Sweetie! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 12, 2008 08:00 AM
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February 11, 2008
Touch activated LED valentine
From the MAKE Flickr pool
So cool. Member Nlian etched and soldered this unique Valentine's greeting using SMD components. Copper always adds a bit of class. -Link
Make a touch-activated, pulsating LED heart Valentine's card on DiyLife -Link
Related:
HOW TO - Make a pulsating hubby detector -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 11, 2008 02:00 PM
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February 10, 2008
HOW TO - Arduino charliplexed heart
Jay writes -
Here is an Arduino controlled Charliplexed LED heart just in time for Valentine's Day. It uses a total of 6 wires to control the 27 LEDs. A PIC or AVR could easily be used for this, but I have Arduinos lying around and they are easy to program. Plus I want to be able to have input options later when I have time to write them.HOW TO - Arduino charliplexed heart - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 10, 2008 12:00 AM
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February 6, 2008
The electronic snowman?
From Hatayanorg in our Flickr Pool
Happy Winter!
(do not apply current) - Link
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Make a Snowman Ornament from a Light Bulb -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 6, 2008 02:00 PM
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February 5, 2008
HOW TO -make Valentine's jewelry with Ponoko
Jewelry making can be a lot of fun (even if you're not the intended wearer). Dan wrote an in-depth tutorial on using the Ponoko fabrication service to create laser-cut Valentine's gifts. He goes into detail regarding the specific steps involved in making with Ponoko - very useful stuff if you're new to the process. He even shares the .eps files from his butterfly earring design.
How to make laser-cut jewelry for Valentine's Day -Link
Related:
Laser cut styrene bracelet -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 5, 2008 01:00 PM
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Stash book with audio
Here's an Instructable for creating a secret compartment book with a customizable sounding recording module inside.
Sexy Secret Book! - Link
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- Make a Secret Compartment Book - Weekend Projects Podcast - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Feb 5, 2008 11:00 AM
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Build a Signboard 2 to proclaim your Valentines day message
The "Signboard 2" (the successor of "Signboard") is a 112 LED display that can be used for messaging and other applications. Best of all, it comes with lots of circuit diagrams, parts explanations, pattern drawings and more.
Signboard 2 - Link
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Feb 5, 2008 07:00 AM
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January 8, 2008
FrostBot - a CNC robot for frosting cookies
Brain made a computer controlled cookie frosting robot, he writes -
The Frost Bot robot consists of a small table-top CNC router kit made by www.fireballcnc.com, augmented with a forth axis stepper motor driving a frosting extrusion device. The four stepper motors of the system are driven by a single board called a Quad EasyDriver, which is based upon putting for Easy Driver boards together and sending them data using two shift registers. (Like a one-directional SPI bus.) This board is driven by a UBW controller board (from SparkFun) using a custom firmware and powered with a standard computer (AT) power supply at 12V. The UBW firmware takes motor move commands over the USB connection from a computer. The computer runs a Liberty Basic application that loads HPGL based vector graphics files, and sends them to the UBW. It also handles homing, jogging, zeroing, offsets, etc. The HPGL input files to the Frost Bot software are generated from Post Script files using GhostScript, and those .ps files are generated from SVG files made in InkScape. Although it all sounds really complicated, it is actually straightforward if you think about each chunk.FrostBot - a CNC robot for frosting cookies - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 8, 2008 11:00 AM
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December 25, 2007
LED cube from Christmas tree lights
Christmas time is a great time to obtain large numbers of LEDs very cheaply. This instructable uses 80 LEDs from an LED christmas tree light string to make the venerable 3D LED cube. In this case a 5x4x4 cube.
3D LED Charlieplex Cube from Chrismas Tree Lights - Link
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Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Dec 25, 2007 02:00 PM
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December 24, 2007
Maker blinged out tree
Jovino writes in -
Once again, we rigged together our make-shift xmas tree. It's fabricated out of modular wire bookshelves connected with bailing wire. Plushies are stuffed all over it. The lights are LED lightstrips set to green (of course), cold cathode blacklights and fluorescent lights. Two 5" televisions battle it out with snow and fire. Hello kitty watches over it all.Maker blinged out tree - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 24, 2007 02:00 AM
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December 23, 2007
Solar LED Christmas lights
Wheelgirl writes -
It is getting dark at 5:00 pm, and I have a bike shop signs that needs to be lighted at night during the winter holiday shopping season. So I repositioned a solar garden light ($5) in an Altoids box, cut off and took some pieces from some battery-operated IKEA Glansa LED Christmas lights ($1.98), and made some solar LED Christmas lights that don't require a wall outlet for their power. It was less expensive to modify stuff that had already been manufactured than to start from scratch.Solar LED Christmas lights - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 23, 2007 05:00 AM
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December 21, 2007
DMX controlled bookshelf
Tim writes -
Well, after seeing the many houses dancing to Trans-Siberian Music, I decided it was time to do the same to my house. The problem is that I currently live in Hong Kong and in a 52 story building. Instead I wired up my living. At first the project was going to simply be mood lighting, but then I added DMX to my controller and Vixen Lights and this is what I got. The projects uses 96 SMD RGB LEDs (how is the for acronyms?). There are six TI TLC5940 16 ch controller chips on a custom board I made myself. There is a Parallax Propeller controlling the whole thing. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!DMX controlled bookshelf - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 21, 2007 03:00 AM
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December 20, 2007
NOTCOT's Holiday gift guide
NOTCOT is one of my favorites, wait - it's actually my favorite site on the web. This year they put together a MASSIVE gift guide, the things they have are some familiar favorites here on MAKE as well as TON of amazing, DIY, artsy and unique things. The design and style of the guide and the items is fantastic if you have time and/or are looking for a last minute gift check out their (now) 20+ page guide - Link.
Related:
Boing Boing Gadgets holiday deployment checklist - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 20, 2007 03:00 AM
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Brian's Brain's holiday gift guide for engineers
EDN (Electronic design news) has Brian's Brain's holiday gift guide for engineers, some good stuff and it includes MAKE! - Link & another one from PowerSource.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 20, 2007 01:00 AM
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December 19, 2007
Xmas Ornaments to DIY-ish 360 fisheye lens
Fun trick to do with Xmas Ornaments, make a DIY-ish 360 fisheye lens - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 19, 2007 12:00 PM
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