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Electronics can count as a craft can't it?
Unosuke:
I got this beginner's soldering kit a while back, and finally got around to putting it together, so here ya go.
I also put a little pin on the back to I can put it on my bag
Here's another one, sorry for the blurriness
celticgeek:
Of course, electronics counts as a craft.
And that is pretty cool.
oblivion:
Nice! Do you get dugg often?
You've got to love AdaFruit Industries and MakeZine. My first kit was the miniPOV kit which I hacked into a 'Brain Machine' thanks to MakeZine/Mitch Altman.
MiniPOV in action:
The "Brain Machine":
Unosuke:
I kind of want to make one of those brain machines. Do they really work?
Also, I want to get that POV kit for your bicycle wheels
oblivion:
If by 'work' you mean 'make funky tones and blinky lights,' yes, they work quite well. The effect is trippy to varying degrees. I have some tinnitus, so the base frequencies used in Mitch Altman's instructions were, quite honestly, obnoxious. I figured out (with his help) how to program lower base freqs which are easier on my ears. I've also tweaked the order/timing of the brain wave patterns more to my liking. The default pattern is designed to get you to meditate then bring you back to alertness. I want something that's going to help me get to sleep since sometimes I just can't turn my brain off. The beauty of open source hackery is that I can experiment with different patterns to my heart/brain's content. I haven't settled on the perfect pattern yet, but it works pretty well.
I say order the kit and follow the MakeZine instructions. Total cost is less than $20 depending on what you have laying around and if nothing else you could put the blinking LEDs in a skeleton cutout and have a funky Halloween decoration :) Or if the brain machine doesn't work for you, you could always hack it back into the miniPOV kit.
The bicycle POVs look cool, but honestly, I don't ride my bike anymore. If I thought it could live up to the rigors of being on a motorcycle, I just might try it. :D
What I REALLY want to build is AdaFruit's MIDIsense kit. Then, of course, there's the x0xb0x. http://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/
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