RSSArchives: November 2005
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November 3, 2005
HOW TO - Create a music bed in iMovie 4
Jason writes "I made this tutorial after receiving a movie from Iraq, but the music overpowered the narration. People who don't use iMovie can at least take the lesson that music too loud becomes the only intelligible audio in a piece." Link.
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Nov 3, 2005 08:07 AM
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November 2, 2005
Knit a Coaster out of Old CDs
Don't throw away your old CDs! Here's a knitting pattern where you can knit coasters for your old CD disks. It only requires a small amount of worsted weight yarn and is a great solution to finish up yarn scraps from past knitting projects. Try using different colors of yarn for every other row and create a stripy spiral. Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 01:07 PM
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HOW TO -LCD backlight quick fix
Tom writes "Inventgeek.com has a great article on rescuing your LCD monitors from the dumpster. Those of us that have used LCD monitors for a while know that over time the backlight starts to dim and can eventually completely fail. Well for less than $20.00 and about a half hour of your time you can replace the backlight and rejuvenate that monitor to as good as new condition. Now if they can only come up with a way to do this with my old Plasma TV tube." Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 11:47 AM
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Mint-Tin Amp PDF
In MAKE 04 we show you how to make a rocking pocket amp from a mint tin (Penguin, Altoids, etc). You can preview the PDF here, or you can subscribe to our iTunes feed and have all our new audio shows, videos and PDFs delivered to your iPod. Click here and click subscribe in iTunes.
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Nov 2, 2005 10:00 AM
MAKE PDF, MAKE Podcast, Music |
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Open Source at Nokia launched today...
I hope to see other phone makers and providers do this - "OpenSource.nokia.com is the first place to look for information concerning Nokia involvement in the Open Source community. The Projects link will take you to project descriptions and give you access to any Nokia developed downloadable code with an Open Source license." They've got an NNTP news reader up there (source is on Sourceforge), and a few more things (Python, a SIP user agent library, and more). A web browser is coming soon (based on Apple's Webkit). Also, "Series 60" has been rebranded as "S60". Thanks Brian! Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 06:58 AM
Cellphones |
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DIY Augmented reality with cheap hardware...
Tweaq sent in this great augmented reality project "You can use their free software and patterns, and view augmented reality using your webcam. It's a lot more astonishing when you actually see it, and you can pan around the object using your webcam." From the site "...inspired by ARToolkit, the popular system designed for Augmented Reality...
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Nov 2, 2005 05:51 AM
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HOW TO - Make a DIY flash diffuser
Piers writes "Daylight savings has started now, and it was still quite light, but not light enough, and I really needed to use a flash. The shadows cast from my built-in flash are really harsh and especially prominent in close-up shots, so I made a makeshift light diffuser out of the top of a slide box, lined on the inside with some thin paper. It worked pretty well, as you can see, the photos have a nice soft light." Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:51 AM
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HOW TO - Make a rumble mouse
Greg writes "Have you ever been playing an xbox game, and feel the rumble in your hands, and think to yourself, "It sure would be cool to have a rumble pack in a mouse". My friend thought this, and he proceeded to make the very first Rumble Mouse..." Greg made a USB version, here's how he did it - Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:46 AM
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Make speakers from hard drives...
Sven writes "About a year ago, inspired by other projects like Afrotech's Hard-disk Sound System, I built a first version of my harddisk speaker. The first one was just a very quick hack to see if it would work and was destroyed due to too much power melting the coils and cables. We hooked it up to a 50W guitar amp and pushed the volume a bit to far... Since it sounded really great, I decided to build a second one." Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:46 AM
Electronics, Music |
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DIY Skype headset
Astrogoth writes "Thanks to Apple, I couldn't pair my Bluetrek G2 bluetooth headset to my PowerBook to use with Skype, so I built my own headset from an old pair of Grado SR-80 headphones and an Apple iSight web cam. I described what I did so others could do the same." Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:46 AM
DIY Projects, VoIP |
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Make LED color changers...
"It's nice to have a bit of colour in your house for style reasons, so here are some neat little PCB's that accommodate a mixture of red, green and blue LEDs giving you the option of controlling the colour they emit. They are designed to fit into standard MR16 downlighter frames for convenience of mounting. Since this page was put up the intensity of common LEDs has risen dramatically and the matching controller project now has extremely sophisticated software that really makes these lights shine." Thanks Rick! Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:46 AM
Electronics |
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Treehugger roundup!
The nice folks at the excellent site Treehugger sent us their weekly round up - here it goes. "This week at Treehugger: How to get re-use out of things you own: "Help Its Broken" will show you how. We found plans to make your own pedal-powered hovercraft. Learn how to make a bag out of, well, recycled plastic bags. And, pour your drink back into the bottle: we find tumblers made from recycled beer bottles....
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Nov 2, 2005 05:45 AM
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Make stuff with eMachineShop and Pad2Pad
Dylan writes "First, eMachineShop. They are an online custom machine shop. You download their program, design the part you need, send in the spec, they machine it, and then it arrives in your mailbox. How cool is that?! They do injection molding, rubber molding, milling, turning, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, wire EDM, tapping, bending, blanking, punching, plastic extrusion, thermoforming, and casting. And the list of materials you can use is just silly. Second, Pad2Pad. Same deal as eMachineShop (it's a sister site), but this time with custom printed circuit boards. You download the software, design your PCB, send it in, they make it, and then you get your PCB in your mailbox. These sites have got to be handy sites for people doing projects like the ones you see in Make."
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Nov 2, 2005 05:44 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Robot Combat returns to San Francisco
David from Combots writes "The best flame-throwing, high-energy, steel-crunching robots in the world come to SF for the championship (Sat/Sun, Nov 12-13, 2005). Biohazard, Sewer Snake, Megabyte, and other famous bots weighing up to 340 pounds will spew fire, flip their opponents, and spin hundred-pound weapons faster than Bruce Lee on meth - all competing for the $10,000 grand prize." Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:40 AM
Robotics |
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Hacking Digital Cameras
This book is on my list to check out - "Hacking Digital Cameras, recently released at the end of September, is the first and only book on the market that is aimed for the DIY photographers. It contains numerous hacking projects for the camera, lenses, accessories, tools, and storage. Whereas other photography books aim to explain how to use camera equipment, control lighting, and framing the shot, Hacking Digital Cameras shows the reader how to build lighting tools and hacking their camera to get the desired picture." Anyone try this out yet? Post up a review in our comments. Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:40 AM
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Retro Gaming Hacks!
Here's another book on my list to pick up. "Whether you're just discovering Tetris or you've been a Pong junkie since puberty, Chris Kohler's Retro Gaming Hacks is your indispensable new guide to classic games. Kohler has compiled the how-to information that used to take weeks of web surfing to find and presents it in highly readable Hacks style. Serving up 85 hard-nosed hacks for reviving the classic games, including tips on hacking ancient hardware, home-brewing classic software, and adapting today's equipment for retro games, Retro Gaming Hacks hands you the joystick" Link. (O'Reilly also publishes MAKE).
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Nov 2, 2005 05:40 AM
Gaming |
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Advanced electronics kits?
Michael is looking for more advanced electronics kits..."I love building electronics kits, but I have run into a slight problem: there aren't many out there past the "solder these 20 things" level. I'd love a complicated kit (too bad Heath Kits no longer exists). I would love an article on complex kits you can buy (maybe highlight a few in each price range). The last kit I bought that I really loved was an RGB LED Blinky from Ramsey Kits. You assemble a little tiny SMT circuit board (that was challenging, quite fun) and the one LED (which is 3 in one) glows all different colors. Very cool to show off." Link. Any suggestions?
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Nov 2, 2005 05:38 AM
Electronics, Kits, Toolbox |
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Analog to digital converter guide...
Handy guide for the home automation Makers..."Home automation systems that are a step beyond your basic "X-10" light control usually consist of a mechanism for controlling and monitoring digital input and output modules. These systems may include an Ocelot with SECU16(I) and/or RLY8-XA expansion units, Caddx Security Systems, Elk M1 Gold Systems, JDS Stargate and others. Their basic functionality of simple, digital inputs and outputs serves most automation and security purposes." Link.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:38 AM
Home Entertainment |
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Cigar box guitar Maker - Ben Prestage
Doug writes "Just was reading the latest issue (of MAKE) and was looking at the guitar article. A guy that plays here in Florida named Ben Prestage plays a home made cigar box also. He makes his using broom sticks for the neck and the pick ups are made out of sewing bobs wound with copper wire, it is then all grounded to bottle caps stuck on to the end on the broom sticks. He is a one man blues band playing all the instruments himself. Here is one of his tracks where he is playing the cigar box Giver." In volume 04 we show you how to make your own cigar box guitar.
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Nov 2, 2005 05:38 AM
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Hackcontest05 - Hacking contest for kids...
Chris Connors, Duxbury High School, Technology and Engineering, put together a great contest for kids - here is the story and the winners (MAKE was a judge)... "The contest project was about creating another way for kids to get inspired to try new things. Some of these projects were things that they were thinking or planning to do. Creating the documentation for the contest helps them be able to show their thinking and their creativity. When they can show off what they have done, it is easier for the community to see how good they are. The documentation can also change the way you approach a project. If you know you are going to have to show it and say it, you think things through differently than if you are just getting the job done..."
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 2, 2005 05:38 AM
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