Build Your Own Arduino-Powered LED Clock

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If you're looking for a weekend project, and you're especially computer savvy, how about building an Arduino-powered LED clock? A person with a creative mind, identified only as "Tobias," developed a one-of-a-kind timekeeper, shown in the video above. The design incorporates 60 LED units, and hours, minutes and seconds can be displayed as a pattern of colors. An Arduino processor is the command center of the clock. SEE ALSO:  Be Mesmerized by This Synchronized Clock Art Installation If you're inspired to create your own, Tobias posted the  step-by-step process online , including materials he used as well as a template. The project only cost him about $30 from materials on eBay Read more »

This DIY Mini-Tardis Is Bigger On The Inside

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If you’ve watched and enjoyed the program known as “The Good Doctor Who” in which an alien of some sort who flies around with his little, knobby robotic buddy (I’m not entirely clear on the details), you’ll be pleased to note that one fan, our own former employee Greg Kumparak, has built a real Tardis police box which, using some digital trickery, is really bigger on the inside. Greg built his little Tardis around Thanksgiving and added a little light on top. Because he’s a Dr. Who fan, he found his device to be lacking in realism. He then programmed a 3D model of the inside of the Tardis – it looks like the inside of the Teletubby house – and added an augmented-reality element to make the room inside appear when you held up your smartphone. Bang: instant Tardis. Greg quit working with us so he could start building things and this is one of his coolest little creations. I’m not a huge Dr. Who fan, but anyone who has enough love and intensity to build a cute little model and make it all the cooler is a good guy in my book. Now he just needs to make the Millennium Falcon from Star Trek. Read more »

Get Your DIY Kick Over the Holidays With Snapguide

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It might be too late for making DIY Christmas gifts, but how-to app Snapguide debuts on iPad today, perhaps still in time to help with a Christmas recipe or New Year's party decorations. The iOS app is also available on iPhone and its user-submitted guides can be viewed on the desktop as well. The visual nature of the app plays well on a bigger screen, along with the more visual social networks. "Pinterest is the largest social driver of traffic, more than Twitter and Facebook combined," noted Daniel Raffel, founder and CEO. He points out many of the top Pinterest users gained their status by posting great how-to content. SEE ALSO: Data-Driven Design: The Story Behind a Simple How … Continue reading... More About: How-To , diy , ipad , startup Read more »

Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY Presentation Tool

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We’re so over PowerPoint presentations, right? Well, that’s the common refrain, at least. And we haven’t even been super-enthused about the new-fangled PowerPoint alternatives in a while – not since companies like  Prezi , Animoto , and (VMWare-acquired) SlideRocket  were making the rounds in the startup scene, that is Read more »