May 21st, 2008

Placemat Laptop Case

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ModHomeEcTeacher on Curbly shows you how to make a laptop case from placemats.

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May 21st, 2008

HOW TO - Make a Cool Button Pendant

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Sister Diane shows us how to turn plastic canvas and a pile of buttons into these pretty button pendants.

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May 21st, 2008

Daisy Stitched Card Pattern

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Make and Takes provides a great tutorial complete with PDF download to make this sweet daisy-stitched notecard.

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May 21st, 2008

Geek quote reader for Touchshield + Arduino

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Fun app that gives you words on the Aruino with the Touchshield from Liquidware.

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May 21st, 2008

Breadboard power supply hits both rails

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Chris writes -

David Fowler at uCHobby has introduced his new-and-improved breadboard power supply, which is both an excellent introduction to soldering technique *and* a useful tool for further electronics work.

Indeed it is a nice little board - with additional header pins to bring power out to both sides of the board and add some extra stability. Jumper selectable 3.3/5V operation, plus one feature I don’t see often enough on supplies like this - a power switch. It seems one should consider adding a heatsink to that voltage regulator if you plan on using an input source higher than 25V - SBBPWR2 Revised design for Breadboard power supply module

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May 21st, 2008

PS2 controller -> MIDI converter kit

Posted by Blogsnapper at 12:05 pm

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The Midiator kit converts a Playstation 2 controller for MIDI use

  • Supports official PS2 controllers, cheap knockoffs and wireless controllers

  • Analog joysticks control pitch bend and several controllers (or whatever you want them to do)
  • Buttons either trigger notes or toggle controller signals
  • LCD and menu system for mode switching (controller vs. note triggering) and remapping the buttons. See the instructions below for more info, but you basically press
  • start, the button you want to remap, and then up/down arrows to remap.

  • Partially works with Guitar Hero controller… still working on this
  • 3 LEDs for feedback: power, sign of life, and/or whatever else you want.
  • Requires DC power supply 7-15 VDC, positive centered barrel plug.

Oddly enough it looks Curiousinventor.com is offering cash to those willing to expand the feature set via modification of the PIC code - Midiator PS2 to MIDI converter

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May 21st, 2008

Egg Press DIY Pillow Kits

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Along the lines of the ClothKits screenprinted sewing patterns we posted about yesterday, Emmakat tips us off to these adorable screenprinted pillow-making kits by Egg Press!

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May 21st, 2008

Seam Finishes Demystified

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Tess of Made by Tess fame recently wrote a guest blog for Sew, Mama, Sew that demystifies a variety of seam finishes, explaining when and why to use them.

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May 21st, 2008

Critter Font by Craig Frazier

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Swisss Miss found this critter font designed by Craig Frazier. Each letter corresponds to the first letter of the critter’s name. “X” is for xenopus.

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May 21st, 2008

reserect an old arcade marquee

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if your as big of a old school video game freak you might have an old arcade marquee. this will show you how to do something besides have it setting around dust!!!





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my "wooden box" was made from nothing but junk and scrap wood. I used a florescent bulb holder, scrap mdf …


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