The makers of OSHChip are now producing the IC pins on their own for you to use in projects where square header pins just aren’t a good solution. The larger header pins can damage breadboard sockets, but Flip-Pins are the same size as traditional IC pins.
We’re stocking these elegant parts in packs of 10 of each of the available sizes: 8-pin, 14-pin, and 20-pin strips.
They come packaged in a carrier strip for ease of soldering into your PCB.
Shy wrote in to tell us about a tool he created to generate Hilbert curves from images for plotting called Image2Hilbert. (Main GitHub project link, here: )
Shy says:
I added a calculation in the interface and this line is approximately 35.881 meters long and it took about 45 minutes to draw.
Thank you, Shy, for sharing this tool! We look forward to seeing what people make with it.
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and … we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.
Head over to the Halloween Project Archives for the full list of projects.
This year for Lady Ada Lovelace Day, I want to celebrate the many women who shared their projects at Maker Faire New York.
I was thrilled to see the Touch Creature sculpture above by Talya Stein, especially after having seen an earlier version. She and I talked about the approachability of organic materials like wood. It was wonderful to see kids interacting with it.
I had a great conversation with Blythe Serrano, who I had met at a previous Maker Faire, about the material properties she has learned this year from experimenting with silicone casting. She makes light up pet collars, and generously shares her learning processes.
I loved this spatial magnetic field visualization by Inhye Lee. The three tubes in the center contain individually controllable electromagnets. The compasses spin in their spheres in response to the changing magnetic fields.
There are so many more I had the pleasure of connecting with and catching up with, including Becky Stern, Sophi Kravitz, Star Simpson, and Sally Byers. I love Maker Faire for the opportunity to bask in the glow (LED glow in some cases) of so many incredible women.
We are excited to be demonstrating the AxiDraw at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on October 23 at the Park Day School in Oakland.
If you can join us, you can use discount code “MakerRockstar” when purchasing tickets online for 15% off.
We will be demonstrating the AxiDraw at Maker Faire New York this weekend, October 1-2. We’ll be in the Microchip booth in the Maker Pavilion.
Windell will be giving a talk on Sunday at this year’s Maker Faire in New York.
You can catch the talk on Sunday, October 2, at 2:30 PM, on the Make: Show & Tell Stage.
The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory is available from Amazon.com, O’Reilly, and other sellers of books, as well as from our store.
The folks at myDesignLab made long exposure RGB LED drawings using AxiDraw, even going so far as to make multi layer three dimensional drawings.
Lindsay Wilson used a laser in a similar manner, first with long exposure photos, then with a UV laser and phosphorescent vinyl and then with a UV laser and cyanotype paper. The cyano print shown above is an example of his experiments drawing Lorentz attractor patterns.
Hansje van Halem posted this video of clips of AxiDraw plotting a variety of designs using different types of pens and drawing media.
Laurel Pollard posted a quilted book bag she made using WaterColorBot with fabric markers to draw designs made using Beetleblocks. Her technique:
iron freezer paper to back of fabric to stablize, tape down. Use Sharpie ‘Stained’ fabric markers.
@susanettenheim @ericrosenbizzle @EMSL use #watercolorbot same as with paper. Fabric markers fit a bit snug. pic.twitter.com/cASsbgVPgU
— Laurel Pollard (@MrsPollardprime) August 15, 2016
