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November 18, 2005
Make automated and programmable musical instruments...
Diy.sometemple writes "This is an extensive collection of automated and programmable musical instruments designed by the logos foundation. There are lots of photos and wiring schematics and the like. You can get lost on this site for hours." Link.
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Nov 18, 2005 02:16 AM
Electronics, Music |
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Recycled Transit Token Cuff Links
"These transit tokens from New York were discontinued in 1980 and have now been recycled into cuff links, courtesy of their designer Ward Wallau. He spent 11 years petitioning the NY Transit Authority before they finally gave him permission to use them in his jewelry, making them truly special. These unique cuff links are also available with recycled transit tokens from Boston, D.C., San Francisco and Chicago." These might be fun to make, perhaps out of arcade tokens... Link.
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Nov 18, 2005 01:12 AM
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November 17, 2005
DIY Sheetrock lift
NotBobVilla sent this along..."A Sheetrock lift I designed/built on a job site of a 6 story building I renovated. I built 2 of them they worked so well. We also had about 30,000 SQ/FT of ceiling to put up. Typically when someone talks about a sheetrock lift its 2x4's fashioned into a Tee. With 2 to 3 guys struggling to screw it to the ceiling. This is a one man operation. Material costs $50-60 bucks 4-6 hours build time. We could have bought one but weres the fun in that? It works just as well or better as lifts costing $600+" Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 03:15 PM
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Homebrew 2.4 GHz 14 dBi Wide Angle Sector antenna
Chris writes "Getting your hands on an good sector panel antenna is not easy - if you live in Saudi Arabia. Dan does and hence did he need to build one himself but it took him 8 months to find a page about the Franklin array and that became his starting point when he developed his 2.4GHz 14dBi sector panel." Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 03:12 PM
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Make your own AOL Instant Message bot
Rbils writes "Release 7.0 of ColdFusion added several different IM Event Gateways that make creating IM based bots extremely simple. The developer version of ColdFusion is free and can be downloaded from macromedia.com. The ColdFusion community has already released several bots, including one for use in looking up ColdFusion documentation (try cflivedocs in Yahoo Messenger for example)." See our previous post about a MAKEbot...Has anyone made one of these? Let us know... Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 03:08 PM
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American Inventor - Reality TV meets Makers
As 5 am rolled around, the monster truck street cleaners did their tour on the streets of San Francisco, while hundreds of bleary-eyed inventors lined up at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, some hauling exotic prototypes, portfolios, and shrouded gadgets. Earlier in the week, over 400 people waited for up to 2 days in Los Angeles. Anyone with an idea has a shot at bringing their dream to the world and winning a million dollars on ABC's American Inventor, a new reality show from Simon Cowell and the producers of American Idol, set to air in March of 2006. MAKE magazine's Phillip Torrone & Natalie Zee report...
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Nov 17, 2005 12:17 PM
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The Knitted Wedding
Cast Off, a knitting club based in the UK, staged the very first "Knitted Wedding" where knitters were invited to submit handmade items for the knit art ceremony. Everything is knitted - the bride's dress, wedding cake, champagne bottles, flowers, and last but not least, tiny wool confetti. All knitters and friends were invited to attend the festivities. The knitted desserts look yummy enough to eat. Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 11:26 AM
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Homemade Atari 800 XE Laptop...
Master modder Ben Heck has created a masterpiece "Of all the portable videogame devices I've ever built over the years one system has always been my "Holy Grail" to make - my "dream portable" if you will. (Yes, even more so than my Neo Geo arcade machine) And now after a couple years of tinkering it is complete! Without further ado - the Atari 800 XE Laptop!" Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 12:06 AM
Computers, Gaming, Retro |
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Make a computer chip keychain...
If you have some old CPUs laying around, you can turn them in to great geeky keychains, perfect for holiday gifts. The process is pretty simple, drill a hole, get a keyring and that's about it. Link. Image / HOW TO comic here.
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Nov 17, 2005 12:06 AM
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What Would MacGyver Do?
This looks like an excellent book "What Would MacGyver Do? is a book-in-progress. When it is finished, it will be a collection of 75 to 100 original stories by and about people who have exercised MacGyver-like ingenuity in solving their everyday problems. The stories will be selected and edited by Brendan Vaughan, an editor at Esquire magazine." Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 12:06 AM
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Refugee Radio - An energy-independent AM-receiver radio...
"In these disaster-ravaged times, whether natural or otherwise, the refugee radio is more than an object of convenience. Mareike Gas has created this handy, energy-independent AM-receiver radio. The Refugee Radio is powered by the energy of radio waves (crystal radio) and was primarily conceived for two situations in mind - any emergency crisis and a long-term refugee circumstance. The Refugee Radio is a great device for calamity-prone/conflict-plagued areas or simply for those insufferable power blackouts." [via] Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 12:06 AM
Electronics, Wireless |
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HOW TO - Read 12 Digit UPC Barcodes
"Most barcodes are 12-digit UPC barcodes, with ten digits at the bottom of the code and one small number to each side. Impress your friends by asking them to select a random item from the kitchen with a removable label and cut the numbers off of the UPC barcode; you can then proceed to read the numbers encoded in the lines." Link.
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Nov 17, 2005 12:05 AM
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November 16, 2005
EFF's Bloggers Right Fundraiser
We've added a badge on our /blog section for the EFF Bloggers Rights fundraiser, we hope Makers out there will consider supporing the EFF too - "EFF is a donor-funded nonprofit group of passionate people—lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — who depend on your support to continue successfully defending your digital rights. Litigation is particularly expensive; because two-thirds of our budget comes from individual donors, every contribution is critical to helping EFF fight —and win—more cases." [via] Link.
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Nov 16, 2005 03:20 PM
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Make a Retro Journal/Sketchbook
Here's a great way to take old books and make them new again. Find some of your old children's books, scour used bookstores or garage sales for unique covers and convert it into your own personal journal or sketchbook. Deborah Merlo takes her favorite Nancy Drew book and shows you how to do it yourself step-by-step. Link.
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Nov 16, 2005 11:09 AM
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The Magnificent Drill Cart
Here's a simple and clever way to build a motorized cart for kids: power it with two 18V cordless drills. The drills friction-drive the cart's front wheels via two 3/4-inch sanding drums, and you drive and steer the thing by pulling the drills' triggers, one with each hand. Two fully charged drill batteries will run the cart for about 45 minutes of play time. Thanks Paul! Link.
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Nov 16, 2005 10:59 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Transportation |
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HOW TO - Make a wardriving box...
How to make a war driving box - "It's very easy, but this is not a step by step HOWTO, only a guide to build your own box. To start, you need a small up and running OpenBSD System on an Intel based System. This Sytem can run on in VMWare or on a older PC System (I use a 500 Mhz Pentuim System with 4 GB HD and 128 MB Ram)" - Thanks Jason! Link.
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Nov 16, 2005 09:02 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Transportation, Wireless |
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Play video on the iPod nano with iPod Linux
Great news, not only does the nano play DOOM, but thanks to the iPod Linux project (we use it on our iPods here at MAKE) the nano can now play video. It's not as slick as the new iPod video, but it's another step in unlocking the potential of older models of iPods out there. [via] Link.
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Nov 16, 2005 08:58 AM
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Make AOL Instant Message bots?
For years I've tried to create "AIM bots" little buddies you'd add to your instant message list - to interact with, to fetch useful information and deliver via your IM window. Back in the day there was a company called ActiveBuddy and they a great developer kit so you could make your own too (not sure if that's still possible). As of today AOL has a new effort here so I think we might see a few interesting ones. Ideally, these bots could use RSS and anyone with a feed could create their own bots that their visitors could add and use. Would you use a MAKE bot? You could ask it "how do i solder" and it he'd return text and links to our pages on this online and in the magazine... [via].
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 16, 2005 08:41 AM
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HOW TO - "Stereo" from the air
John writes "Stereo From the Air - I just finished a short tutorial on how to take 3D stereo photographs from on board of an airplane and thought I'd share it with you guys. It's a fun little project for when you're pretty much bored out of your skull and stuck in a tiny seat at 33,000 feet." Link. Here's another how to I wrote awhile back on making 3D images too. Testing for cosmic rays also passes the time.
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Nov 16, 2005 12:25 AM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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The New Inventors
Nick writes "In reference to Xeni Jardin's mention of the "American Inventor TV Series" on Boing Boing, I thought you might be interested in a TV series that runs on the Australian national broadcaster called 'The New Inventors' - It's a revival of a late 70's series called 'The Inventors' and each week features three makers and their projects which are assessed by a panel of design and engineering experts. The linked page doesn't reference more recent episodes, but should give you some idea of the kind of ideas presented." Link.
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Nov 16, 2005 12:25 AM
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