This article is from Make Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. Here’s another great project from the Make: archives. According to Karina Olsen, the biggest mistake you can make in welding class is telling your instructor that you’re finished early. “Once the instructor knows that you need more work, they will find random, ungraded projects for you to do until your classmates catch up with...
This article is from Make Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When your function generator dies, you never know what you’ll find inside. Maybe it will be a blown tantalum capacitor, or maybe it will be an ongoing art project with followers all over social media. In his case, engineer Eric Schlaepfer found both. He wanted to see if there was an obvious failure point...
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When Brooklyn, NY-based musician Phillip Stearns found circuit bending, he started experimenting with all kinds of art, branching out from audio into visual, then ultimately into textiles. That one tool, the ability to modify electronics hardware to create things from the resultant glitches, led to his endeavor called Glitch Textiles. “The project started...
