Projects

Check out Hacker in Residence, Jesse's awesome Harmonic Skew Zoetrope in this project tutorial.

Craft a stuffed monster while exploring the LilyTiny preprogrammed microcontroller. This is a project based on the Plush Monster Activity created at MIT's High-Low Tech Lab by Emily Lovell, Jie Qi, and Natalie Freed.

Light up your love with paper circuits - no soldering required!

This is a GPS controlled clock - a clock you truly never have to set! Using GPS and some formulas, we figure out what day of the week and if we are in or out of daylight savings time.

A fun holiday project to try for anyone looking to catch Santa on Christmas!

Get started with Actobotics with this simple vehicle. Then expand and customize it for your own evil robot empire.

Learn how to use a blower and thin sheet plastic to create designs that change shape and volume!

Craft a glowing card for friends and family this holiday season with paper circuits - no soldering required!

Diana Eng walks you through a magically appearing design made with an thermochromatic pigment.

Make your own cackling apple head witch to scare all of the trick or treaters this Halloween!

How about that humidity? This tutorial shows how to add sensing capability to the 21st Century Fashion Kit's RGB flower project.

How to consciously wear light-up and and sound reactive clothing.

Make a light up goodie bag with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!

Use LilyPad LEDs, a switched battery holder, and coin cell battery to make a fun light up mask for your next costume party.

How to hook-up, program, and modify your Maker Faire Badge for electronic fun.

Learn how to detect cosmic rays with this simple and cheap detector, built by Hacker in Residence Pete Marchetto.

This tutorial will show you how to combine a webcam, a 32x32 RGB LED panel, and a Teensy 3.1 to stream video from the webcam, pixelate it, and display it on the LED panel - LIVE.

Drum machines and keyboards have been the standard for making digital music, but how do you make electronic music if you're trained to play the trombone? One of our Hackers in Residence, Carlos Mello, took it upon himself to find a solution to that very question.

How to take a solar powered pathway light from a hardware store and make it into a crude soil moisture sensor.

How to combine an Arduino, XBee WiFi module, and handful of sensors to create a live stream of "Office Conditions". Storing light, temperature, carbon-monoxide, and methane (for science!) readings on the Internet.

Light up your dad's day with this electronic pop-up card!

Use an Electric Imp and accelerometer to create an "Are You OK" widget. A cozy piece of technology your friend or loved one can nudge to let you know they're OK from half-a-world away.

A short guide to creating a rainbow of new LilyPad LED colors at home!

Fear the dark no longer with this ELastoLite nightlight.