Posts with «craft & design» label

Deadpool’s Disembodied Head Shares a Catchphrase When It Holds Your Gear

Julia needed a place to rest her cool, new headphones when she wasn't using them, so her dad made a quipping Deadpool head.

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Capture Incredible Water Droplet Impacts with a High Speed Camera Rig

High speed photography is great for capturing the moment when two water droplets collide and make incredibly beautiful fluid impacts.

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How Punch Cards and Arduino Close the Gap on Hacked Knitting

You can still use punch cards to operate knitting machines, but a few groups are now bringing the technology full circle by hacking knitting machines so that they may be operated digitally via an Arduino.

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Transform an Ikea Side Table into a Music Visualizer

Use some LEDs to upgrade a $10 Ikea side table into a centerpiece that bumps and jives to the beat of your tunes. Get your freq on!

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Build a Small, Custom USB MIDI Foot Board with Arduino

If you're playing for an audience you don't want to spend your set looking at a screen. See how one musician made this MIDI foot board for performances.

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Control Your Camera Rig with the Blackmagic SDI Arduino Shield

Blackmagic's new 3G-SDI Arduino shield will make automating your camera and photography rig easier than ever with SDI input and output.

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Shoot Super Detailed Macro Photographs with an RTI Camera Rig

Using many light sources, reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) is a method for photographing that allows you to get 3D map of surfaces.

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This Week in Making: Marble Machines, Filament Tips, and More

This past week we celebrate Arduino Day with Makers like, saw a new marble machine, and started a conversation about how coding is taught.

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Strap a Robot to Your Face! Your Expressions Are Now Controlled by Technology

Turn an old headlamp into a power assist for your eyebrows. Use an infrared remote control to raise, lower, waggle, and adjust.

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Remote Treat Dispenser Sends You Adorable Photos of Your Pet

Need a quick mood lift when you're missing your pet? This treat dispensing camera rig will text you a photo of your pet.

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