This guide will tell you how to assemble your very own LED Name Tag Kit from the Maker Shed! This is a great beginner-to-intermediate soldering project that is more challenging...
Posted by Michael Castor
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From the book The Busy Girl’s Guide To Sewing by Carrie Maclennan Get ready to show off your basic drawing skills, your hand stitching skills and your machine sewing skills.
Posted by GetCraftyGurl
Categories: Sewing, Computers & Mobile | No Comments
This guide is intended to show you how to build the Pendulum Challenge Kit from the Maker Shed. The build involves soldering and should take less than half an hour....
Posted by Michael Castor
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How to build a snake robot
Posted by Theodore Enns
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This location-aware teddy bear reads RFID tags and plays different customizable sounds depending on where it is or what object it’s near — other toys, books, CDs, anything. Charlie’s Bear...
Posted by David Harris
Categories: Music, Arduino | 3 Comments
Charge up your USB devices with the power of the sun. By adding a small solar panel and two diodes to a standard USB cable, you can plug that cable...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 7 Comments
This project was inspired by Cooking for Geeks author Jeff Potter’s quick DIY sous-vide hack. My plan, initially, was to just hack the controller into an enclosure with an A/C...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Food & Beverage | 3 Comments
Albert Einstein once wrote that God does not play dice with the universe. To which Niels Bohr (or Enrico Fermi) reportedly replied, “Stop telling God what to do with his...
Posted by John Iovine
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Science | No Comments
By Christie, Jim, John, and Terry Noe Our dog, Maggie, loves to run around in our big yard. But how do we fence her in? Building a 500-foot fence is...
Posted by Terry Noe
Categories: Electronics, Hacks, Home | No Comments
Learn how to build the "persistence of vision" display, which is a classic DIY project with a computer chip that flashes LED lights super fast, as you swing the gadget...
Posted by Nick Brenn
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | No Comments
Television antennas are comprised of a series of metal rods cut to exact lengths and positioned so they receive a particular television frequency. The following design was invented in the...
Posted by Hikus
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 4 Comments
My Kinect is a very cool toy, but it was not lost on me, as I was plugging it in, that I’d given the Microsoft hive-mind a pretty sophisticated set...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Electronics, Computers & Mobile | 1 Comment
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