The thought never occurred to me: scratch-building your own turntable. Paulo Rebordao writes:
This is a record player complete with a servo controlled arm that I’ve designed and built during the last 10 months. It has a few unusual features and I think it looks Way Cool!!!
Besides some general info on the workings, I also made available the schematics and software for downloading.
Kristen Rask’s annual Plush You! show at Schmancy in Seattle is still accepting applications until March 15th. You can send in three examples of your plush work to apply, and they don’t have to be the ones you put in the show. This year there’s going to be a sister exhibition of plush wearables at Fancy, a jewelry store nearby.
Photo by Arwen O’Reilly Griffith from the 2008 Plush You! show at Double Punch in San Francisco.
John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities.
Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. In the Workshop, John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can measure the G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed activities. In the Toolbox segment, William Gurstelle demonstrates the slick, back-cutting action of a super-sharp Japanese saw. The Maker Channel features a tesla coil-powered guitar amp, an RFID reader implanted in a human hand, and LED fan sign to bring to baseball games, and a solar powered bicycle gondola.
Etsy’s got a great video with Vane Broussard of Brooklyn Bride Blog (bklynpillow on Etsy) as she shares the designs she developed while planning her own wedding. In this video, she shows you how to make your own embroidered drawstring favor bag.
Chris Connors @ MAKE writes about Boston Skill Share, happening April 18-19 at MIT:
So you have a great idea, and you want to share it, but where will you find people to share with? If you can get to the Boston area for the April 18 and 19th 2009 weekend (perhaps you haven’t yet scheduled your April Vacation?) then you should definitely check out Boston Skill Share, a community effort to help people get and share great ideas. If you would like to lead a workshop, then check out the Workshop Submission Form. Maybe you just want to go and learn loads of cool stuff, so explore the workshop page, which will fill up as the event approaches..
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These are some computer mice that I made after seeing this instructable. The first mouse is a trackball mouse that I cut two windows in and added to red LEDs to. The second one was an optical mouse that I stripped the case off of, added momentary toggle switches to instead of the usual click buttons…
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These are some computer mice that I made after seeing this instructable. The first mouse is a trackball mouse that I cut two windows in and added to red LEDs to. The second one was an optical mouse that I stripped the case off of, added momentary toggle switches to instead of the usual click buttons…