If you’ve ever wanted to tie some decorative bows for a holiday tree or scheme, here’s where you want to look to learn how to make them! Pictures posted soon!

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Whose girlfriend will love you forever if you make this for her? Yours! Whose mother will continue paying for room, board, and the occasional cell phone bill because she loves that someone finally appreciated her at Christmas? Yours! Make this because it’s the easiest way to make something for a woman/cross-dresser and they’ll adore you (and probably give you a hug or kiss).

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Daaavid Fowwllerrrrr:

“Often when working on microcontroller projects you need a background function to run at regular intervals. This is often done by setting up a hardware timer to generate an interrupt. The interrupt triggers an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) to handle the periodic interrupt. In this article I describe setting up the 8-Bit Timer2 to generate interrupts on an Arduino ATMega168. I walk through steps required for setup and inside the ISR function.”

Holidays are so time consuming (and the old version of Wordpress, ho hum), thanks to you our dear readers for being so patient and understanding!

P.S. TIPS HELP! (kristi #at# diyhappy #dotttt# com)

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Well ladies and gentledudes, it’s that time of year where the holidays and computer problems become horrendously time-consuming. Wordpress hasn’t been behaving lately, and my personal schedule is downright frightening. But aaaanyway, enough about me, and more about Arduinos… back by popular demand - here’s David Fowler!

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This is a cute little way to make a “high quality” (as they say in the instructable) power bar, for all your electronic power needs! There are some ideas in the comments underneath the instructable that pave the way for mods and better ideas, too! Hooray for ingenuity!

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David Fowler was kind enough to write to us about the new uChobby article:

“This is the second in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The first article covered the various methods available for sound generation with an Arduino. In this article we take a small step; ‘Hello World’ for Arduino sound. We prepare for our future experiments by hooking up a PC or powered speaker so we can hear the Arduino sing.”

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These hats are so cute, with a vintage flair. If you see pin-ups or any sort of women from the 40s, they all have hats like this one, made on Threadbanger - a cute show that some of us here at DIY:happy love. All you need is felt. And a sewing machine, bias tape, and some chotchkes to decorate your awesome hat - but who’s counting? It’s easy! And good for a cocktail party!

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This is so cool! DIY:happy recently got a link to this instructable, which teaches you how to make a three-headed holder for anything you’re working on. Personally, I’ve gotten very angry when I’m working on something alone and I need to hold an electronic doohickey of some sort while I use both my hands on it. Now here’s something to use that isn’t a vice or something equally as unforgiving and rigid! An extra hand; without someone attached to bother you about unrelated matters, hooray!

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If porting an Atmel AVR910 In System Programmer protocol to an Arduino in order to write programs to an ATtiny2313 and tiny13 chip sounds like fun, here’s the perfect solution to your pre-Arduino boredom!

Here’s a testimonial:

“Randall converted an Arduino into AVR chip programming hardware for use with AVRDude. The project programs AVR tiny13 and other tiny AVR chips using an Arduino. He provides code and instructions to implement the Atmel AVR910 In System Programming protocol.”

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If you see the end result of this wikihow article, we’re pretty sure you say “Oh man, I could never do that!” Wrong.  You can do this, and it is actually relatively easy to execute. Paper, scissors, thread, a stapler, and tape - that’s about all you need to perform this awesome crazy 3D paper snowflake.

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I have a hopeless addiction to the show Survivorman. As a nature dork, I love the idea of surviving off the fatta th’ land, as they say. Les (the dude who is Survivorman) has taught me some indispensible lessons - in the event I get stranded in a remote location with only a broken motorbike, a really heavy pack, and two acorns. Amazingly enough, this instructable is in the spirit of Survivorman (and Boyscouts). Enjoy! 

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